Key Thinkers on Development

David Simon is Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and Director of Mistra Urban Futures, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He is author, editor and co-editor of many books and journal special issues on cities, development–environment challenges and climate change adaptation, most recently Rethinking Sustainable Cities: Accessible, Green and Fair (2016), Urban Planet (2018) and Holocaust Escapees and Global Development: Hidden Histories (2019).

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• Adebayo Adedeji (1930–2018) Irma Adelman (1930–2017) Anil Agarwal (1947–2002) Elmar Altvater (1938–2018) Samir Amin (1931–2018) Alice Amsden (1943–2012) A.T. Ariyaratne (1931–) Jagdish Bhagwati (1934–) Piers Blaikie (1942–) James M. (Jim) Blaut (1927–2000) Norman Borlaug (1914–2009) Ester Boserup (1910–1999) Harold Brookfield (1926–) Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1931–) Michael Cernea (1934–) Robert Chambers (1932–) Hollis B. Chenery (1918–1994) Diane Elson (1946–) Arturo Escobar (1952–) Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) Fei Xiaotong (1919–2005) Andre Gunder Frank (1929–2005) Paolo Freire (1921–1997) John Friedmann (1926–2017) Celso Furtado (1920–2004) Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi (1869–1948) Susan George (1934–) Alexander Gerschenkron (1904–1978) Jayati Ghosh (1955–) Eduardo Gudynas (1960–) Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) Gerald K. Helleiner (1936–) Albert O. Hirschman (1915–2012) Philippe Hugon (1939–2018) Richard Jolly (1934–) Naila Kabeer (1950–) Michał Kalecki (1899–1970) Inge Kaul (1944–) Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914–1999) Charles Poor Kindleberger (1910–2003) Sir William Arthur Lewis (1915–1991) Michael Lipton (1937–) Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Karl Marx (1818–1883) Manfred Max-Neef (1932–) Terence Gary McGee (1936–) Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987) Kwame Francis Nkrumah (1909–1972) Ragnar Nurkse (1907–1957) Julius Kambaragwe Nyerere (1922–1999) Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012) François Perroux (1903–1987) Karl Polanyi (1886–1964) Raúl Prebisch (1901–1986) Aníbal Quijano (1928–2018) Joan Robinson (1903–1983) Walter Rodney (1942–1980) Paul Rosenstein-Rodan (1902–1985) Walt Whitman Rostow (1916–2003) Aruna Roy (1946–) Ignacy Sachs (1927–) E.F. (Fritz) Schumacher (1911–1977) Dudley Seers (1920–1983) Amartya Kumar Sen (1933–) Hans Wolfgang Singer (1910–2006) Frances Stewart (1940–) Joseph Stiglitz (1943–) Paul Patrick Streeten (1917–2019) James Tobin (1918–2002) Mahbub Ul Haq (1934–1998) Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Wang Hui (1959–) Eric R. Wolf (1923–1999) Peter Worsley (1924–2013)