For the British military historian, see Charles Oman.
Charles Pennington Oman (born September 30, 1948) is an American economist. From 1978 through 2010, he worked at the OECD Development Centre in Paris, where he was responsible for policy-oriented research programs and then Head of Strategy. Since 2011, he teaches courses on the Political Economy of International Development and on Economics at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) in the Institute of Political Studies ("Sciences Po") in Paris. He has published widely in the areas of international development, the relationship between globalization and regionalization, new forms of international investment and corporate governance.
Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators, together with Christiane Arndt, OECD Development Centre 2006 [1]
Corporate Governance: A Development Challenge, together with Daniel Blume, Policy Insights No.3
Corporate Governance in Developing, Transition and Emerging–Market Economies, together with Steven Fries and William Buiter, OECD Development Centre Policy Brief 23
Corporate Governance in Development: The Experiences of Brazil, Chile, India, and South Africa, Co-edited with Centre for International Private Enterprise, 2004
Development is Back, edited together with Colm Foy and Jorge Braga de Macedo, OECD Development Centre 2002
Corporate Governance and National Development, Development Centre Technical Paper No. 180, 2001.
Policy Competition for Foreign Direct Investment : A study of Competition among Governments to Attract FDI, OECD Development Centre Studies, 2000.
The Policy Challenges of Globalisation and Regionalisation, Development Centre Policy Brief No. 11, 1996.
The Postwar Evolution of Development Thinking, MacMillan and Development Centre Study, 1991.
Investing in Asia by Colm Foy, Charles P. Oman, Douglas H. Brooks, and Douglas H. Brooks, Edited by Charles P. Oman.