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Leslie Silver International Faculty

Applied Global Ethics

Study Abroad

Study Abroad

Study Abroad

Dorron Otter

Dorron Otter is a Principal Lecturer in Development Studies. Born in Birkenhead but with parents having emigrated from India, his early experiences were locally rooted but always in the context of world-wide issues of development and equity.

Having studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford, Dorron spent a number of years in occupations as diverse as youth and community work in Merseyside, where the riots of 1981 re-enforced his interest in the need for an ethical approach to development issues, through working in a multi-national financial organisation.

Dorron opted for a career in teaching and having undertaken a PGCE at the University of York he worked for five years as an Economics teacher at Queen Mary’s College in Basingstoke.

Dorron wanted to further his interest in global development issues and undertook part time postgraduate training in International Development at the University of Leeds. Whilst pursuing this, his full time job was as the first British Petroleum Teaching Fellow responsible for developing Economic Awareness across the curriculum at the University of Durham.

In 1990 he came to Leeds Business School working in the Economics department. He has developed a number of economics courses which explore different economic perspectives but his main interests lie in the area of the political economy of international development.

He was the subject leader for the Economics group for a number of years also serving as Acting Head of the School of Economics and Human Resource Management and Assistant Dean of Leeds Business School.

He is married with three children and has many interests, but a life-long obsession with Everton Football Club.