David Potts

BA Economics (Cambridge), MA Development Economics (East Anglia), PhD (Bradford)

David Potts is an economist specialising in project appraisal in a developing country context. He has worked in twenty five countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Caribbean on short term research and training assignments and has long term experience working as an FAO planning economist in Tanzania in the 1980s. He is the author of Project Planning and Analysis for Development (Lynne Rienner 2002) and co-editor of Development Planning and Poverty Reduction (Palgrave 2003) and Current Issues in Project Analysis for Development (Edward Elgar 2010).