Dr Adam J. Fforde
Asian Studies Room 205 Tel: + 61 3 8344 5889 |
Background
Adam Fforde studied Engineering and Economics at Oxford, and then worked in private sector economic consulting and forecasting before studying for a Masters in Economics, specialising in Development (Birkbeck, London). With an interest in Third World Socialism, he went from there in 1977 to start a PhD on Vietnamese economic development issues at Cambridge, and spent
1978-79 at Hanoi University. Finishing his PhD in 1982, he went back to consultancy before taking up a Post-Doctoral Fellowship to examine Vietnamese industry, returning to Hanoi in 1985-86. From 1987 to 1992 he lived in Vietnam working as a consultant to various parts of the Swedish aid program, spending 1989-92 at the Sida Office in the Swedish Embassy as an Advisor. Migrating to Canberra in 1992, he spent the 1990s combining consultancy work in his own company with various academic research activities at the ANU. In 2000-2001 he taught and supervised research at the SEA Studies Program, NUS, returning to Melbourne in 2002. He joined Asia Institute in 2003, supervises and teaches Asian Economics and Comparative Development Policy. He continues his consultancy work (www.aduki.com.au gives details).
Research Interests
Adam Fforde has a range of research interests and has supervised across a very wide range of topics (see his cv for a list of theses supervised). His own research interests are eclectic, continuing a long-standing interest in Vietnamese development issues across many sectors with newer work on the nature of development policy and comparative issues. He has also published on the theory of transition and problems of economic methodology. He has access to range of databases both quantitative and qualitative that badly need analysis.