Kevin Charles Watkins is at the London School of Economics as a visiting professor of development practice at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa.
[1][2] Recently the chief executive of Save the Children UK, from October 2016 until his resignation in July 2021.
He also became head of research in Oxfam (1991) where he covered issues such as debt relief, education,[6] social policy and poverty.
During this time, he directed a total of three reports, from 2005 to 2008: Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world As lead author of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report he produced the 2009, 2010 and 2011 reports: [7] The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education Reaching the marginalized Overcoming inequality: why governance matters He was senior visiting research fellow at the Global Economic Governance Programme at University College of the University of Oxford.
[8] He has participated on the World Economic Forum as a discussion leader on the IdeasLab on the Global Redesign Initiative (Values and People) in 2010.