David Woodward is an independent consultant on development issues, author of Debt, Adjustment and Poverty in Developing Countries (1992) and The Next Crisis? Direct and Equity Investment in Developing Countries (2001), and is co-editor of Global Public Goods for Health (2003). He has also written numerous articles and working papers on a wide range of issues relating to the global economy, development, poverty, health and global economic governance. David’s previous positions have included economic adviser in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, technical assistant to the UK Executive Director to the IMF and World Bank, development economist in the Strategy Unit of WHO, and most recently Head of the New Global Economy programme at ‘nef’ (the new economics foundation), a London-based think tank.