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Finn Tarp is a leading international expert on issues of development strategy and foreign aid, with an interest in poverty, income distribution and growth, micro- and macroeconomic policy and modeling, agricultural sector policy and planning, household and enterprise development, and economic adjustment and reform as well as climate change, sustainability and natural resources. He has published 94 articles in internationally refereed academic journals - including The Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, World Bank Economic Review, European Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, World Development, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Land Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Economic Geography, Feminist Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and Climatic Change - alongside six books, 16 edited book volumes and special journal issues, and 48 book chapters with international academic publishers plus a large number of research reports and other studies and publications. In addition to his university positions, he has held senior posts and advisory positions within government and with donor organisations, and he is

In addition to his university positions, he has held senior posts and advisory positions within government and with donor organisations, and he is member of a large number of international committees and advisory bodies. They include the European Union Development Network (EUDN) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). He is also a member of the World Bank Chief Economist’s 15 member ‘Council of Eminent Persons’ advising the Chief Economist and he has been awarded the Vietnamese Government Medals of Honour for ‘Support to the Planning and Investment System’ and the ‘Cause of Science and Technology’. On 20 November 2015, Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark awarded him with the Order of the Dannebrog.