John Weiss

Emeritus Professor, University of Bradford, United Kingdom

John Weiss is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics at the University of Bradford, UK and an independent economic consultant. He has written extensively on issues of industrialization and industrial policy including in World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Oxford Development Studies and the World Economy. He has published several textbooks, including most recently the Economics of Industrial Development, Routledge 2011.

He is the joint editor of the Routledge Handbook on Industry and Development, Routledge, 2016. He has worked on industrial policy in, amongst others, Mozambique and Ethiopia (for the World Bank), in Mexico (for the Government) and in Mongolia (for UNIDO). He has been a reviewer for the last two UNIDO, Industrial Development Reports. He is the author of Practical Appraisal of Industrial Projects, UNIDO 1980.