Christopher Colclough

{{Short description|British development economist and academic}}

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Christopher Louis Colclough (10 July 1946 – 28 June 2017) was a British development economist and academic, who specialised in education in developing countries.{{cite web|author=Richard Jolly |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jul/12/christopher-colclough-obituary |title=Christopher Colclough obituary | Education |work=The Guardian |date= |accessdate=18 July 2017}}

Colclough was director, Centre for Education and International Development, and Commonwealth Professor of Education and Development, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.{{cite web|url=http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/christopher-colclough/ |title=Professor Christopher Colclough - Networks of evidence and expertise for public policy |publisher=Csap.cam.ac.uk |date=18 November 2013 |accessdate=18 July 2017}} He also was a life fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Following a series of gifts and bequests from Professor Colclough, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge instituted a Christopher Colclough Scholarship to support students of the college undertaking graduate studies at the university in the field of development economics and kindred disciplines in the social sciences