Richard Jolly was for five years, until June 2000, architect of the Human Development Report and special adviser to the Administrator of UNDP. From 1982 to 1995 he was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, with responsibilities for UNICEF’s programmes in over 130 countries. Richard Jolly is now an Honorary Professorial Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, where he was Director from 1972 to 1981.