Glynn Cochrane

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After five years as an administrator with British Overseas Aid in the South Pacific, Glynn Cochrane completed a doctorate in social anthropology at Oxford while working with E.E. Evans-Pritchard. He then became a tenured full professor in the Maxwell Graduate School of Syracuse University, an External Examiner to the University of Dar-es-Salaam and the University of the West Indies and author of numerous anthropology textbooks. He is now an adjunct faculty member at the University of Queensland.

Cochrane wrote Social Soundness for USAID which has been used in that agency’s project work for over 40 years. In the 1970s Cochrane also wrote The Use of Anthropology in Project Operations of the World Bank Group whose recommendations were accepted by then-World Bank President Robert McNamara. For the World Bank he also wrote Policies for Strengthening Third World Local Government and co-authored The Organization and Management of Tropical Diseases.

He served as the World Bank’s Public Administration Advisor to the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Sir Michael Somare, and as UNDP/World Bank Chief Technical Advisor for Civil Service Reform in Tanzania. From 1995 until 2015 he was a senior advisor responsible for global community relations for the mining group Rio Tinto.