Ian Roger Gough was born in 1942 and educated in Economics at Cambridge University. He taught for many years at Manchester University in England, where he was Professor of Social Policy and Political Economy, before being appointed Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath in 1995. In his time he has also been Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Recently he spent there months as Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Italy.
Ian Roger Gough is the author of over seventy books and articles on state policy, political economy, human welfare and comparative social policies. These include the Political Economy of the Welfare State, translated into six languages, including Mandarin, Japanese and Korean and A Theory of Human Need, co-authored with Len Doyal, winner of both the Deutscher and Myrdal prizes. He is also joint author of Can the Welfare State Compete?, Social Assistance in OECD Countries, and has just co-edited Capitalism and Social Cohesion. A book of his selected essays, Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies, will be published next year.
Ian Roger Gough has lectured in every continent except Africa, and has visited East Asia on several occasions. He is now co-director of a large research project on ´Social policy in developing countries´ which will address the new international paradigms of social development and develop a new framework for understanding social policy successes and failures across the developing world. |