Frances Julia Stewart (born 4 August 1940) is professor emeritus of

development economics Development economics is a branch of economics which deals with economic aspects of the development process in low- and middle- income countries. Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic development, economic growth and structural ...

and director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE),

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. A pre-eminent development economist, she was named one of fifty outstanding technological leaders for 2003 by ''

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''. She was president of the

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from 2008–2010.

Early life

Frances Stewart was born in Kendal on 4 August 1940, the daughter of Clarissa Goldschmidt, a history graduate from Somerville College, Oxford, and the economist

Nicholas Kaldor Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor (12 May 1908 – 30 September 1986), born Káldor Miklós, was a Cambridge economist in the post-war period. He developed the "compensation" criteria called Kaldor–Hicks efficiency for welfare comparisons (1939), d ...

. Her sister is the

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political scientist

Mary Kaldor Mary Henrietta Kaldor (born 16 March 1946) is a British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, where she is also the Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit. She also teaches ...

. The family moved to Cambridge in 1950. She studied at Cambridgeshire High School for Girls and then gained a first-class degree from Oxford University in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE).

Selected bibliography

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References

External links

Frances Stewart page at Oxford

Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE)

Frances Stewart author page at Macmillan publishers

HDCA website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Frances Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford 1940 births Living people British Jews British people of Hungarian-Jewish descent British women economists Daughters of life peers British development economists Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford People from Kendal