{{Short description|British economist (born 1934)}} {{about||the British naval officer|Richard Frank Jolly|the Royal Navy medical officer|Rick Jolly}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | image = Richard Jolly at LSE Women's Library.jpg | caption = Jolly in 2014 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1934|6|30|df=y}} | birth_place = Hove, Sussex, England | field = | alma_mater = {{Nowrap|Magdalene College, Cambridge (BA)<br />Yale University (MA, PhD)}} University of Sussex | occupation = Developmental economist | spouse = {{Married|Alison Jolly|1963|2014|death}} | children = 4, including Arthur | awards = }}
'''Sir Arthur''' "'''Richard'''" '''Jolly''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCMG}} (born 30 June 1934) is a development economist who served as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 2000. He has been named one of the fifty key thinkers globally in developmental economics.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Simon|first1=David|title=Fifty key thinkers on development|date=2006|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=0415337909}}</ref>
Jolly currently serves as Honorary Professor and Research Associate<ref name="ids">{{cite web|title=Richard Jolly - Research Associate|url=http://www.ids.ac.uk/person/richard-jolly|website=Institute of Development Studies|accessdate=5 February 2015}}</ref> of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex focusing on issues of world development and the role of the UN in global governance. From 1982 to 2000, he was an Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, first as deputy executive director of UNICEF and from 1996 as Coordinator of the UNDP’s Human Development Report.<ref name=UNHistory>{{cite web|title=Richard Jolly|url=http://www.unhistory.org/CD/Jolly.html|website=United Nations Intellectual History Project|accessdate=5 February 2015}}</ref> He co-authored the book ''Adjustment with a human face: protecting the vulnerable and promoting growth''.<ref name="Adjustment" />
== Biography == Jolly was born on 30 June 1934, in Hove, the son of Arthur Jolly, a chartered accountant, and his wife Flora ''née'' Leaver, a commissioner for the Girl Guides, he attended Brighton College before going up to Magdalene College, Cambridge and graduating with first-class honours in Economics in 1956. Facing National Service, he applied for exemption from military service as a conscientious objector, which was granted conditional upon work as a Rehabilitation Officer in Kenya.<ref>Central Board for Conscientious Objectors, Annual Report, 1956-57, p8</ref> In 1958, Jolly pursued postgraduate studies at Yale University, receiving a PhD in 1962.<ref name="LongInterview" />
In 1959, Jolly was secretary of the British Alpine Hannibal Expedition, which sought to recreate Hannibal's route across the Alps with the aid of an elephant. This expedition resulted in Jolly's first published article "Hannibal's route across the Alps: results of an empirical test".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ids.ac.uk/person/richard-jolly |title=Richard Jolly |website=www.ids.ac.uk |access-date=25 February 2018}}</ref>
Jolly was appointed Research Fellow at the East Africa Institute of Social Research in 1963, advising on manpower to the Government of Zambia (1964–66), and Research Officer in Applied Economics at Cambridge University (1964–68).<ref name="LongInterview" />
Appointed a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies in 1969, Jolly became its director from 1972 until 1981;<ref name="ids" /> in 1972, he co-directed with Hans Singer the ILO ''Employment Mission to Kenya'', published as ''Employment, Incomes and Equality''.<ref name="ids" /><ref>{{cite book|last1=Jolly|first1=Richard|last2=Singer|first2=Hans|title=Employment, Incomes and Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya|date=1972|publisher=International Labour office|location=Geneva|url=http://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1972/72B09_608_engl.pdf|accessdate=6 February 2015}}</ref> He also served as Special Consultant on North-South issues to the Secretary-General of the OECD in 1978, and from 1978 to 1981 was a member and rapporteur of the UN Committee on Development Planning.<ref name="ids" />
From 1982 to 1995, he was deputy executive director in UNICEF,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Jolly|first1=Richard|title=Statement by Dr. Richard Jolly, Acting Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)|url=https://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf166/una/950307152917.htm|website=United Nations Archive|accessdate=6 February 2015}}</ref> with responsibilities for UNICEF's programmes in over 130 countries of the world, including UNICEF's strategy for support to countries in reducing child mortality and implementing the goals agreed at the 1990 World Summit for Children. In UNICEF, he was also directly involved in efforts to ensure more attention to the needs of children and women in the making of economic adjustment policies, and co-authored the book Adjustment with a Human Face.<ref name="Adjustment">{{cite book|last1=Cornia|first1=Giovanni Andrea|last2=Jolly|first2=Richard|last3=Stewart|first3=Frances|title=Adjustment with a human face|date=1987|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford [Oxfordshire]|isbn=0198286090|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/adjustmentwithhu0001unse}}</ref> From 1982 to 1985, he was vice president of the Society for International Development and from 1987 to 1996, was Chairman of its North/South Roundtable.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Jolly|first1=Richard|title=Society for International Development, the North–South Roundtable and the Power of Ideas|journal=Development|date=2007|volume=50|issue=51|pages=47–58|url=http://www.unhistory.org/pdf/jolly_society.pdf|accessdate=6 February 2015|doi=10.1057/palgrave.development.1100388|s2cid=83631623}}</ref>
From 1996 to 2000, Jolly became Special Adviser to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and principal coordinator of the widely acclaimed Human Development Report<ref name="LongInterview" /><ref name="HumanDev1996">{{cite book|last1=United Nations Development Programme|title=Human Development Report|date=1996|publisher=Oxford University Press for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)|location=New York|isbn=0-19-511158-3|url=https://archive.org/details/humandevelopment00undp|accessdate=5 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="HumanDev2000">{{cite book|last1=United Nations Development Programme|title=Human development report 2000 : human development and human rights|date=2000|publisher=Oxford Univ. Press|location=New York|isbn=0-19-521678-4|url=https://archive.org/details/humandevelopment00unit|accessdate=5 February 2015}}</ref>
As a senior UN officer, Jolly was much involved with reforming and ensuring collaboration between its operational agencies. From 1996 to 2000 he chaired the system-wide UN Sub-Committee on Nutrition (SCN)<ref>{{cite journal|title=Report of the Sub-Committee on Nutrition at its Twenty-Fifth Session|journal=Sub-Committee on Nutrition|date=30 March – 2 April 1998|url=http://www.unscn.org/files/Annual_Sessions/25th_SCN_Session/25th_session_REPORT.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206133003/http://www.unscn.org/files/Annual_Sessions/25th_SCN_Session/25th_session_REPORT.pdf|url-status=usurped|archive-date=6 February 2015|accessdate=6 February 2015}}</ref> and from 2000 to 2007 the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC),<ref name="ids" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council Press Release|url=http://www.africanwater.org/sanpress.htm|website=The African Water Page|accessdate=6 February 2015}}</ref> both of which prepared major reports setting out global goals and strategies for reducing malnutrition and ensuring access to hygiene, sanitation and water on a worldwide basis.
As co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project (1999–2010),<ref name=UNHistory /><ref name="LongInterview" /> he oversaw the production of the 17 volume history of the UN's contributions to economic and social development covering the ideas emerging and promoted by the UN since 1945. He was the senior author of the final volume, ''UN Ideas that Changed the World''<ref name="UNIdeas">{{cite book|last1=Jolly|first1=Richard|last2=Emmerij|first2=Louis|last3=Weiss|first3=Thomas G.|title=UN ideas that changed the world|date=2009|publisher=Indiana University Press|location=Bloomington|isbn=978-0253221186}}</ref> and a co-author of five others, three of which were recognized by ''Choice'' magazine as outstanding academic books of the year. One of these volumes, ''UN Voices: the Struggle for Social Justice and Development'',<ref>{{cite book|last1=Weiss|first1=Thomas G.|last2=Carayannis|first2=Tatiana|last3=Emmerij|first3=Louis|last4=Richard|first4=Jolly|title=UN voices : the struggle for development and social justice|date=2005|publisher=Indiana University Press|location=Bloomington|isbn=0253217881|edition=[Online-Ausg.]}}</ref> contains summaries of in-depth interviews of the leadership and experiences of the four living Secretaries-General and 75 other senior UN officials.
Other publications which Jolly has co-authored include five of the volumes of the UN Intellectual History, five Human Development Reports (1996 to 2000),<ref name="HumanDev1996" /><ref name="HumanDev2000" /> ''Development with a Human Face'';<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mehrotra|first1=edited by Santosh|last2=Jolly|first2=Richard|title=Development with a human face : experiences in social achievement and economic growth|date=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=0198296576}}</ref> ''Adjustment with a Human Face'';<ref name="Adjustment" /> ''The UN and the Bretton Woods Institutions: New Challenges for the 21st Century'';<ref>{{cite book|last1=Jolly|first1=Richard|last2=Ul Haq|first2=Mahbub|last3=Streeten|first3=Paul|last4=Haq|first4=Khadija|title=The UN and the Bretton Woods institutions : new challenges for the twenty-first century|date=1995|publisher=Macmillan|location=Basingstoke|isbn=978-0333628942}}</ref> ''Disarmament and World Development'';<ref>{{cite book|last1=Graham|first1=Mac|last2=Jolly|first2=Richard|last3=Smith|first3=Chris|title=Disarmament and world development|date=1986|publisher=Pergamon|location=Oxford|isbn=0080313086}}</ref> ''Planning Education for African Development''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Jolly|first1=Richard|title=Planning Education for African Development|date=1969|publisher=East African Publishing}}</ref> and numerous scholarly articles.
Sir Richard has served as a trustee of OXFAM,<ref>{{cite web|title=Richard Jolly|url=http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/blog/author/richard-jolly|website=Oxfam Policy and Practice Blog|accessdate=6 February 2015}}</ref> Chairman of the UN Association of the United Kingdom<ref>{{cite web|last1=Jolly|first1=Richard|title=The UN at 60: on the 60th anniversary of its creation, Sir Richard Jolly reviews the chequered history of the world's foremost intergovernmental body|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+UN+at+60%3a+on+the+60th+anniversary+of+its+creation%2c+Sir+Richard...-a0134576494|website=The Free Library|accessdate=6 February 2015}}</ref> and as an Overseas Development Institute Member of Council. [[File:KCMG Jpegfile.jpg|thumb|right|140px|upright|Star and badge of a KCMG]]
=== International appointments ===
* Honorary Vice-President of the British Association of Former UN Civil Servants<ref>{{cite web|title=Organization|url=http://www.bafuncs.org/about_us.html|website=The British Association of Former United Nations Civil Servants|accessdate=5 February 2015}}</ref> * Member of the Independent Advisory Panel for the One World Trust's Global Accountability Project * Senior Research Fellow at The CUNY Graduate Center * The Headstrong Society - UNDP (Chairman 1998) * The Headstrong Society - Columbia University (2001–present) * Joint Founding Editor of the ''Journal of Human Development and Capabilities''.
== Honours ==
=== Orders and decorations === * 45px - KCMG for "contributions to international development" * 45px - UN Medal for "International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia"
=== Academic distinctions === * 1998: Hon. LittD (UEA) * 1992: Hon. DLitt (Sussex) * 2007: Hon. PhD (Erasmus)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.iss.nl/about_iss/honorary_fellows/richard_jolly/ |title=www.iss.nl |access-date=22 December 2014 |archive-date=23 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423075857/http://www.iss.nl/about_iss/honorary_fellows/richard_jolly/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 2001: Hon. Fellow (Magdalene Coll, Cantab)<ref>[http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/fellows/Honorary/ www.magd.cam.ac.uk]</ref>
=== Civic awards === * Freeman of the City of London<ref>[https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-the-city/about-us/Pages/freedom-of-the-city.aspx www.cityoflondon.gov.uk] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921200655/https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-the-city/about-us/Pages/freedom-of-the-city.aspx |date=2015-09-21 }}</ref> * Master of the Worshipful Company of Curriers.<ref>[http://www.curriers.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Currier2014web.pdf www.curriers.co.uk] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222132718/http://www.curriers.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Currier2014web.pdf |date=2015-12-22 }}</ref>
== Personal life == In 1963, Jolly married primatologist Alison Bishop.<ref name="LongInterview">{{cite web | last1= Weiss | first1= Thomas G. | title= Transcript of interview of Richard Jolly | url= http://www.unhistory.org/CD/PDFs/Jolly.pdf | publisher= United Nations Intellectual History Project | accessdate= 19 July 2014 | location= New York, New York | date= 20 July 2005}}</ref> They had four children together, including playwright and screenwriter Arthur M. Jolly.<ref>{{cite book | last = Mosley| first = Charles (ed.) | title = Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edn | location = London | publisher = Burke's Peerage & Gentry Ltd | page = 2113 (JOLLY, K) | date = 2003 | isbn = 0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>
== Principal works == * {{cite book | last = Jolly | first = Richard | title = Planning education for African development (East African Studies, issue 25) | publisher = Eagle Press, University of California (East African Studies, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University College, Uganda) | location = California and Uganda | year = 1969 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Jolly | first1 = Richard | last2 = Graham | first2 = Mac | last3 = Smith | first3 = Chris | title = Disarmament and world development | publisher = Pergamon Press | location = Oxford Oxfordshire New York | year = 1986 | edition = second | isbn = 9780080313085 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Jolly | first1 = Richard | last2 = Stewart | first2 = Frances | last3 = Cornia | first3 = Giovanni A | author-link2 = Frances Stewart (economist) | title = Adjustment with a human face: protecting the vulnerable and promoting growth | publisher = Clarendon Press Oxford University Press | location = Oxford Oxfordshire Oxford Oxfordshire New York | year = 1987 | isbn = 9780198286103 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Jolly | first1 = Richard | last2 = Haq | first2 = Mahbub Ul | last3 = Streeten | first3 = Paul | last4 = Haq | first4 = Khadija | title = The UN and the Bretton Woods institutions: new challenges for the twenty-first century | publisher = Macmillan | location = Basingstoke | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780333628935 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Jolly | first1 = Richard | last2 = Stewart | first2 = Frances | last3 = Mehrotra | first3 = Santosh | author-link2 = Frances Stewart (economist) | title = Development with a human face: experiences in social achievement and economic growth | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New York | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780198296577 }}
=== Papers === * {{cite book | last = Jolly | first = Sir Richard | title= Be outraged: there are alternatives |orig-date= 2003 | publisher= Oxfam | date = August 2012 | oclc = 50161455 }} [http://www.stampoutpoverty.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Be_Outraged_There_Are_Alternatives.pdf Pdf version.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502002305/http://www.stampoutpoverty.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Be_Outraged_There_Are_Alternatives.pdf |date=2 May 2014 }}
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/22536/(Arthur)-Richard-JOLLY ''Debrett's People of Today''] * [http://www.ids.ac.uk/person/richard-jolly Profile at the Institute of Development Studies] * [http://www.unhistory.org/publications/bios/jolly.html Profile at the UN Intellectual History Project] * [http://www.iss.nl/about_iss/honorary_fellows/richard_jolly/ Profile at The International Institute of Social Studies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423075857/http://www.iss.nl/about_iss/honorary_fellows/richard_jolly/ |date=23 April 2016 }} * [http://johntoyedotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/achievementscheerfuleconomist2012.doc The achievements of a cheerful economist]. By John Toye. Chapter based on three interviews with Richard Jolly conducted during 2011. * [http://www.unhistory.org/CD/PDFs/Jolly.pdf Transcript of Sir Richard Jolly interview]. By Thomas G. Weiss. New York, 20 July 2005 (150 page interview) * [http://www.opendemocracy.net/daniel-jakopovich-richard-jolly/demilitarisation-requires-visionary-leadership Daniel Jakopovich interviews Sir Richard Jolly: Demilitarisation requires visionary leadership]
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