Leonard Alan Winters CB (born 1950) is a professor of economics at the

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and former chief economist at the

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(DFID). His father is the composer

Geoffrey Winters Geoffrey Walter Horace Winters, (born 17 October 1928) is a British composer and music educationalist. His works span from large-scale orchestral and concertante pieces (including two symphonies and the Violin Concerto), to chamber and instrumental ...

.'A Man With Music at his Fingertips', ''Suffolk and Essex Free Press'', 10 January 1980, p.20 His speciality is the empirical and policy analysis of international trade. He was director of the Development Research Group of the

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(2003–07), and had worked at the bank intermittently in a range of posts since 1994. He is a fellow at the

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and the

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and a former Programme Director at the former. In the UK his previous posts have included spells at Cambridge, Bristol, Wales and Birmingham universities. He has served on several editorial boards including the ''World Bank Economic Review'', ''

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'', and ''The World Trade Review''. He has acted as a consultant for the

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, the

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, the European Commission and Parliament, the

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(UNCTAD), the

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, and the

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. Winters was appointed

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(CB) in the 2012 Birthday Honours.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Winters, L Alan. British development economists Living people 1950 births Academics of the University of Sussex Companions of the Order of the Bath Civil servants in the Department for International Development Members of HM Government Economic Service