John W. McArthur

John W. McArthur is the Deputy Director of the UN Millennium Project and serves concurrently as Associate Director at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is a co-author of the UN Millennium Project's final report, Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Previously John was a Research Fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University, where his research focused on the links between institutions, health, geography and economic development. At Harvard he co-authored the Global Competitiveness Report with Michael Porter, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Peter Cornelius and Klaus Schwab. Prior to that he was Project Manager for the Africa Competitiveness Report. His other publications include articles in the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and The Lancet. John has an MPhil in Economics from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar; a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University's John F Kennedy School of Government; and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of British Columbia.