Frances Stewart, Professor Emeritus of Development Economics, was Director of ODID from 1993-2003 and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at the department between 2003 and 2010. She has a DPhil from the University of Oxford and an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex
Awards: - The UNDP’s Mahbub ul Haq award 2009 for lifetime’s achievements in promoting human development - The Leontief prize 2013;