Morten Jerven, associate professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, is an economic historian with a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. Jerven is the author of the book "Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It." He has since published a more detailed study of what happened to economic growth evidence in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia from 1965 to 1995. He has two edited volumes with Routledge. One on Measuring African Development: Past and Present" and another on the African Statistical Tragedy. His latest book, Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong was published in June 2015.