Frances Julia Stewart (born 4 August 1940)[1] is professor emeritus of development economics and director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE), University of Oxford.
A pre-eminent development economist, she was named one of fifty outstanding technological leaders for 2003 by Scientific American.
Frances Stewart was born in Kendal on 4 August 1940, the daughter of Clarissa Goldschmidt, a history graduate from Somerville College, Oxford, and the economist Nicholas Kaldor.
[1] She studied at Cambridgeshire High School for Girls and then gained a first-class degree from Oxford University in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE).
[1] Stewart uses the concept to "virtuous circles" to express how development policies can target drivers of conflict like poverty, inequality, and inadequate social services.