Victor bulmer thomas biography of abraham

British academic

Victor Bulmer-Thomas CMG OBE is a British academic who has specialised in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Born in London, his first experience of the Americas was as a V.S.O. in Belize (1966/7), where he taught several of the future leaders of the country.

Victor bulmer thomas biography of abraham

He studied at New College, Oxford University for his undergraduate degree, where he obtained a first. In 1975 he graduated with a PhD from St Antony's College, Oxford, with an original dissertation on Costa Rica where he pioneered the concept of constructing databases from primary sources and applying them to Latin American economic history.

While at university, he became involved in left-wing student politics.

Academic career

Early years in Scotland

His first academic post was at the Fraser of Allander Institute for Research on the Scottish Economy at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.^[1] He was one of the first to be appointed to this new Institute, where he