Frances Stewart

Frances Stewart has coauthored several UNICEF studies, including the influential Adjustment with a Human Face (OUP 1987) and War and Underdevelopment (OUP 2001).  She is the editor of Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies (Palgrave, 2008). She has directed a number of major research programs, including several financed by the UK Government’s Department for International Development, and others by the Swedish Development Agency and the Carnegie Corporation.

An Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, Professor Stewart has acted as consultant for early Human Development Reports; is President of the Human Development and Capability Association; and Vice-Chair of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy. She was previously Vice-Chair of the Board of the International Food Policy Research Institute.

She was awarded the UNDP’s 2009 Mahbub ul Haq award for her lifetime’s achievements in promoting human development and named one of fifty outstanding technological leaders for 2003 by Scientific American (for promoting anti-poverty campaigns to help quell armed conflicts in developing countries).  Her major areas of work include appropriate technology, basic needs, adjustment and poverty, development during conflict, group behaviour, horizontal inequalities, and human development.