Background
Livingstone was born in France to Scottish parents.
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Ian Livingstone
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He studied economis at the University of Sheffield graduating with a first class degree.
Career
His family returning to the United Kingdom just prior to France falling to the Nazi"s 1940. He followed this with post-graduate studies at Yale University. Livinstone"s first proper job was a civil service posting in Salisbury, Rhodesia and this was followed shortly after by his first academic job as one of the first staff in the economics department of Makerere University.
After several years there he returned to Sheffield and became a lecturer in economic statistics in his old department.
In 1965 he returned to head the economics department at Makerere, and then went on to lead the economic research bureau at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (1968-1971). He also worked in the mid-70s as a research professor in the Institute of Development Studies (University of Nairobi) in Kenya.
This was followed by a return to the United Kingdom for a brief posting at Newcastle University before moving to the post that was to see him to the end of his career - a professorship in Development Economics at the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. Membership of the economics committee of the Economic and Social Research Council (1976-1980) Membership of the Overseas Development Administration"s economic and social committee on research (1977-1992) Membership of the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission (1995-2001).
