Andrew Coulson

Andrew Coulson worked as an economist in the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives in Dar es Salaam from 1967 to 1971 and taught economics and agricultural economics at the University of Dar es Salaam from 1972 to 1976. He taught at the University of Bradford, England from 1976 to 1982, and at Birmingham University from 1984, where he specialised in matters relating to local government in the UK. Since 2009 he has made regular visits to Tanzania, and published a range of articles relating to agriculture in Tanzania. A second edition of his book Tanzania: A Political Economy was published in 2013. He is current Chair of the UK branch of the Britain Tanzania Society.