Rich, Eddie

Eddie Rich has worked in development for over 20 years. In 1996-98 he was the DFID representative to Angola. In charge of a medium sized-aid programme, it soon became clear to him that the development debate needed to move well beyond aid. This was reinforced when he was part of the small team working on the UK Government's ground breaking White Paper on International Development Making Globalisation Working for the Poor'. The paper advocated a more coherent approach to international development policy highlighting issues of trade, governance, security, codes and standards, finance, and the en...