Michael woolcock biography
Michael Woolcock is Lead Social Scientist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
Michael Woolcock is Lead Social Scientist in the World Bank's Development Research Group, where he was worked since!
Michael Woolcock is Lead Social Scientist in the World Bank's Development Research Group, where he has worked since 1998; for seventeen of these years, dating back to the first cohort of the MPA/ID program (2001), he has also taught part-time at Harvard Kennedy School.
During periods of leave he has been the Von Hugel Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2002), the founding research director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute (now the Global Development Institute) at the University of Manchester (2006-2009), and a foundation staff member of the World Bank’s first Knowledge and Research Hub, in Malaysia (2015-2017).
His current research focuses on strategies for enhancing state capability for implementation, on transformations in local social institutions during the development process, and on using mixed methods to assess the effectiveness of "complex" interventions.
In addition to more than a hundred journal articles and book chapters, he is the author or co-edit