Mark is chief executive officer of Oxford Policy Management, having joined OPM as chief economist in 2012. Before joining OPM, Mark was acting executive director of the International Growth Centre (IGC). He was head of macroeconomics at BP, and has previously worked in the African and Fiscal Affairs Departments of the International Monetary Fund, on Mali, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria and Egypt. Mark has also worked in Uganda’s Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Planning. Mark has a DPhil from the University of Oxford, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BSc from Bristol University. He is a research associate of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies at the University of Oxford.