OECD Development Centre - Charles Oman, Senior Economist

Corporate Governance

Charles Oman is in charge of the programme on Corporate Governance. He has previously led research on Globalisation and Regionalisation, and on New Forms of Investment in Developing Countries.

Charles Oman holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, has taught economics there and, for four years, at the Graduate School of Administration in Lima, Peru, and has worked for the Ford Foundation.

Articles:

Corporate Governance: The Development Challenge, together with Daniel Blume,  eJournal USA: Economic Perspectives, February 2005

Publications:

Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators, together with Christiane Arndt, OECD Development Centre, 2006

Corporate Governance: A Development Challenge, together with Daniel Blume, Policy Insights No.3 

Corporate Governance in Developing, Transition and Emerging–Market Economies, together with Steven Fries and William Buiter,  OECD Development Centre Policy Brief 23

Corporate Governance in Development: The Experiences of Brazil, Chile, India, and South Africa, Co-edited with Centre for International Private Enterprise, 2004 

Development is Back, edited together with Colm Foy and Jorge Braga de Macedo, OECD Development Centre 2002
Corporate Governance and National Development , Development Centre Technical Paper No. 180, 2001.

Policy Competition for Foreign Direct Investment : A study of Competition among Governments to Attract FDI , OECD Development Centre Studies, 2000.

The Policy Challenges of Globalisation and Regionalisation , Development Centre Policy Brief No. 11, 1996.

The Postwar Evolution of Development Thinking, MacMillan and Development Centre Study, 1991.

E-Mail: charles.oman@oecd.org