Christopher Adam is Professor of Development Economics and former Head of the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, UK.
From 2009-19 he was Lead Academic for Tanzania for the Oxford-LSE International Growth Centre (IGC) and currently is an advisor to the IGC Policy Response Team.
He is a Fellow of the European Development Network (EUDN) and a Visiting Scholar at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. He has served as an advisor in the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and a special advisor to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee.
He is the managing editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, and an associate editor of the Journal of Development Economics and the Tanzania Economic Review.
He has published widely on the macroeconomics of low-income countries, particularly those of sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years he has worked on issues of fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policy; regional integration; public investment, debt, growth and structural change in low-income countries; and the economics and political economy of aid.