Samir Amin

Samir Amin is an economist and one of the best-known thinkers of his generation. From 1963 he worked as a Professor at the Universities of Poitiers, Dakar, and Paris; in 1970 he became director of UN-IDEP. Since 1980 and 1997, respectively, Samir Amin has been and still is the director of the ‘Forum du Tiers Monde’ (Third World Forum) in Dakar, Senegal, and the World Forum for Alternatives.