Adam Fforde
Adam Fforde is a British economist who studies Vietnam. Born in London in 1953, he went to Westminster School and Oxford. He switched from engineering to economics, earned an MSc at Birkbeck, and earned his PhD from Cambridge in 1982, with a study on agricultural development in North Vietnam. In the 1980s and 1990s he lived in Hanoi and Canberra, advising aid agencies and NGOs working in Southeast Asia. In 1999 he was awarded a fellowship at the National University of Singapore, and he later held academic posts in Melbourne, Australia. He is one of the most cited scholars on contemporary Vietnam and has written textbooks and critical works on development theory and practice. He has also published on servicisation in developing countries. He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Asia Institute of the University of Melbourne and an adjunct professor at Victoria University's Centre for Strategic Economic Studies. He is the eldest son of John Fforde, a senior Bank of England figure, and the brother of author Jasper Fforde and Cressida Fforde. He is married with four children and lives in Melbourne.
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