Mark Henstridge

Mark is the Chief Executive Officer, having joined OPM as Chief Economist in 2012.

In his capacity as Chief Economist, Mark Henstridge is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company's work in development economics. Before joining Oxford Policy Management, Mark was Acting Executive Director of the International Growth Centre (IGC), an initiative funded by DFID at LSE and the University of Oxford. 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.