Coulson, Andrew

found: His Tanzania, 1800-1980, c1982:title page (Andrew Coulson) CIP data sheet (Coulson, Andrew Charles; b. 6/10/44) pub. info. (University of Bradford, England)

found: The division of local authority economic development between counties and districts, 1986:title page (Andrew Coulson, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham)

found: Author's WWW site, viewed November 6, 2024Biography page (studied economics and politics at the University of Cambridge; on graduation he was employed as a Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute, placed in the Ministry of Agriculture in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; after working there for 4 years, he moved to teach development economics first at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for 4 years, and subsequently at the University of Bradford, England; from 1982-4 he was a section leader in the newly-formed Employment Department of Sheffield City Council; in 1984 he joined the Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham, to teach local economic development; between 1990 and 2004 he was an elected city councillor in Birmingham; he has written about the dynamics of partnership working, comparative local government, political leadership, PFI, and the politics of British local government; he is an Associate of the Institute; in 2009 he resumed his interest in overseas development and strategy, and started visiting, and writing about, Tanzania; Honorary Senior Research Fellow, International Development Department, University of Birmingham; between 2015 and 2018 he was Chair of the Britain Tanzania Society, and a board member of the Tanzania Development Trust)