Samir Amin

Samir Amin is an Egyptian Marxist economist living in Dakar, Senegal. He worked in Cairo from 1957 to 1960 as a research officer for the government's Institution for Economic Management, then as adviser to the Ministry of Planning in Mali till1963, when he was offered a fellowship at the Institut Africain de Développement Économique et de Planification (IDEP). As well as being a professor at the universities of Poitier, Dakar and Paris, he was director of IDEP from 1970 -1980, when he became director of the Third World Forum in Dakar.