Place of birth: Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

Parentage: son of John Redmond Toye and Adele Toye (née Francis)

Family: married Janet Toye (née Reason); one son, Richard (b. 1973), one daughter, Eleanor (b. 1970)

Education: BA (Hons), History, University of Cambridge 1964; Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University, USA 1964–65; MA, History, University of Cambridge 1968; MSc, Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1970; PhD, ‘Public Expenditure and State Accumulation in India, 1960–1970’, University of London 1978

Career: John Toye is Senior Research Associate and a Visiting Professor in the Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. He was previously Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford and Visiting Fellow of St Antony's College from 2000–03. Before that he was Director of the Globalization and Development Strategies Division of the UN Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva from 1998–2000. John Toye’s academic career began as a Research Fellow in Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London from 1970–72. Then he was Graduate Assistant at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge from 1972–74. Later he was Research Officer at the Overseas Studies Committee at Cambridge from 1975–77, and Assistant Director of Development Studies at Cambridge from 1977–80. He worked briefly as Director of Research Coordination at the Commodities Research Unit Ltd in London and New York from 1980–82, continuing as Non-executive Director from 1982–85. Dr Toye took up an appointment as Professor of Development Policy and Planning and Director of the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea in 1982 and remained there until 1987 when he was appointed Director of the Institute of Development Studies and Professorial Fellow of the University of Sussex in Brighton, a position he held until 1997. At Oxford Professor Toye’s research interests include public finance, the political economy of development, international economic institutions and the history of economic thought. He has consulted with the National Audit Office, the Department for International Development, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and many other agencies and has been a member of, or led, professional assignments in 25 overseas countries. He is a Region Head for Africa at Oxford Analytica. John Toye was Chairman of the Board of the Journal of Development Studies from 1976–2006 and serves on the boards of Contemporary South Asia, Journal of International Development, World Development, and European Journal of Development Research. He has been Managing Editor of the journal Oxford Development Studies (see url below) since 2005.

Publications include: Taxation and Economic Development (editor) 1978, Trade and Poor Economies (co-editor) 1979, Public Expenditure and Indian Development Policy, 1960–70 1981, Dilemmas of Development: Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in Development Theory and Policy 1987, 1993, Indo-European Cooperation in an Interdependent World (editor) 1989, Does Aid Work in India? A Country Study of Official Development Assistance (co-author) 1990, Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-Based Lending in the 1980s (two vols; co-author) 1991, 1995, Structural Adjustment and Employment Policy: Issues and Experience 1995, Challenging the Orthodoxies (co-editor) 1996, A World Without Famine? (co-editor) 1997, Keynes on Population 2000, Trade and Development: Directions for the Twenty-first Century (editor) 2003, The UN and Global Political Economy: Trade, Finance and Development (co-author) 2004; numerous book chapters, book reviews, commissioned reports, and articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB, England; Tel: +44 (0)1865 281835; Fax: +44 (0)1865 281801; Email: john.toye@economics.ox.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13600818.asp/ .