Kevin Charles Watkins is at the London School of Economics as a visiting professor of development practice at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa.Financial Times article Recently the chief executive of Save the Children UK, from October 2016 until his resignation in July 2021. He was previously at the Overseas Development Institute as executive director in June 2013. His research focuses on education, globalization and human development. He is a former nonresident senior fellow at the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. He was previously the director and lead author of the UNESCO's Education for All Global Monitoring Report.
Academic background
Kevin Watkins has a BA in politics and social science from Durham University (University College). He also has a doctorate from Oxford University. He spent one year in India doing research for his dissertation: "The economics and politics of Indian Nationalism from 1880–1947".UNESCO biography
Career
Kevin Watkins served as researcher for the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee (1983). He was then appointed as head of international development at the Catholic Institute for International Relations (1987–2001). He also became head of research in Oxfam (1991) where he covered issues such as debt relief, education,The Oxfam education report 2000 social policy and poverty.
In 2000, he was part of the drafting committee for the framework of action and the six Education For All goals during the World Education Forum.
From 2004 to 2008, he was director of the United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Report. During this time, he directed a total of three reports, from 2005 to 2008:
Human Development Report 2007/8
Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world
Human Development Report 2006
Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis
Human Development Report 2005
International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world
As lead author of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report he produced the 2009, 2010 and 2011 reports: Education For All Global Monitoring Report
EFA Global Monitoring Report 2011
The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education
EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010
Reaching the marginalized
EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009
Overcoming inequality: why governance matters
He was senior visiting research fellow at the Global Economic Governance Programme at University College of the University of Oxford. He has participated on the World Economic Forum as a discussion leader on the IdeasLab on the Global Redesign Initiative (Values and People) in 2010.World Economic Forum biography In addition, he is a board member of the Center for Global Development, UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre and the Journal of International Development. He also has a blog on The Guardian.
See also Education For All Human Development Report
References
External links EFA Global Monitoring Report Mr. Kevin Watkins, Thematic round table on, "Education for the future - Changing needs", High-level Segment 2011 - ECOSOC Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2011 Interview: Kevin Watkins (EFA-GMR Director) UN says world leaders must act to stop systematic rape of girls in conflict zones (The Guardian Article) Kevin Watkin's blog on the Guardian Kevin Watkins at the Doha Debates (6 December 2010) The Human Development Reports Oxfam