Colin Leys
Colin Temple Leys (born April 8, 1931) is a British political economist who is emeritus professor of political studies at
Queen's University, Canada, and an honorary research professor at
Goldsmiths, University of London. From 1956 to 1960 he taught at
Balliol College, Oxford and then became the first Principal of
Kivukoni College in Dar es Salaam, before holding chairs at
Makerere University, Uganda, and the universities of
Sussex,
Nairobi,
Sheffield, and Queen's. Until his retirement from Queen's in 1996 his research focused mainly on African development. He has since worked mainly on the political economy of Britain, but from 1997 to 2010 he was co-editor with
Leo Panitch of the ''
Socialist Register''. From 2000 onwards he became involved in the defence of the British
National Health Service (NHS) against successive government attempts to marketise and privatise it. With Stewart Player he co-authored two books on the NHS and was one of the founders of a respected think tank, the
Centre for Health and the Public Interest.
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