Christopher Louis Colclough (10 July 1946 – 28 June 2017) was a British

development economist Development economics is a branch of economics that deals with economic aspects of the development process in low- and middle- income countries. Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic development, economic growth and structural c ...

and academic, who specialised in education in

developing countries A developing country is a sovereign state with a less-developed Secondary sector of the economy, industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to developed countries. However, this definition is not universally agreed upon. ...

. Colclough was director, Centre for Education and International Development, and Commonwealth Professor of Education and Development, Faculty of Education,

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

. He also was a life fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Following a series of gifts and bequests from Professor Colclough, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge instituted a Christopher Colclough Scholarship to support students of the college undertaking graduate studies at the university in the field of

development economics Development economics is a branch of economics that deals with economic aspects of the development process in low- and middle- income countries. Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic development, economic growth and structural c ...

and kindred disciplines in the

social sciences Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among members within those societies. The term was former ...

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1946 births 2017 deaths British development economists Academics of the University of Cambridge {{UK-economist-stub