Draft:David Jackson (economist)
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David Jackson (born 1962) is a British development economist, urbanist and United Nations official.[1] He is the son of Helen Jackson (former Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hillsborough) and Keith Jackson (former Principal, Fircroft College and Senior Tutor, Northern College).
Career
[edit]Jackson worked on the 1988 County Hall public inquiry, the Channel Tunnel Rail Terminal at Waterloo Station and the site of Jubilee Gardens along the River Thames. He was associated with Coin Street Community Builders and the Waterloo Community Development Group. [2]
In Mozambique, Jackson worked with the Ministry of Planning and Finance to create the system for local infrastructure investment following the 1994 Peace Agreement, initially testing this in Nampula province.[3]
From 2001 Jackson managed a consultancy company in London specializing in international development[4]
In the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2005 Aceh Peace Agreement, Jackson became decentralization advisor to the United Nations in Indonesia where he designed the Aceh Government Transformation Programme to promote economic recovery and rebuild local government institutions.[5]
Jackson joined the United Nations Capital Development Fund in 2009, first as Head of Asia and Pacific Office and then as Director of Local Development Finance. In this capacity he supports countries build systems and multi country mechanisms that deploy development finance through local governments.[6] Jackson advocates that "Local Government Finance is Development Finance."[7]
Jackson has published widely in the field of local government finance.[8]
Education
[edit]London School of Economics B.Sc. (1986)[9]
University of East Anglia M.Sc. (1987)
References
[edit]- ^ https://citylab.bloomberg.org/people/david-jackson/
- ^ http://www.wcdg.org.uk/home/margaret-mellor Obituary of Margaret Mellor that references David Jackson's role
- ^ https://www.academia.edu/58709436/Aid_that_works_successful_development_in_fragile_states Book by James Manor for the World Bank that documents the programme managed by of David Jackson
- ^ https://david-jackson.blogspot.com/ Link to company blog
- ^ https://crawford.anu.edu.au/pdf/staff/ben_hillman/2013/The-Policymaking-Dimension-of-Post-conflict-governance.pdf Paper by Ben Hillman documents this process
- ^ https://www.rfilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Leverage-Report-Final.pdf
- ^ https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3972316?v=pdf link to publication
- ^ https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=%22david+jackson%22+uncdf&oq=
- ^ https://lse-atom.arkivum.net/uploads/r/lse-institutional-archives/c/3/7/c3766265c835cd550a0e2ce2c70a22f6e339bcd2a03b3709b9a634555ee19d9e/c35db005-e656-40fb-9c99-0226469cb90b-UKLSE_DL1_BE01_001_001_0282_0001.2d10b2b2-af87-4c3d-9d9b-d9ca19a9b1de.pdf The Beaver student newspaper references David Jackson's role at LSE Student Union