Academic staff

The Global Development Institute is made up of over 60 academics from over five continents. We are driven by the desire to advance social justice by conducting world-class, interdisciplinary research that achieves real impact.

Find out more about our staff and visit their profile pages for further information. A number of our researchers offer PhD supervision, find out more about some of our PhD supervisors.

Academic staff

Dr Adam Aboobaker
Lecturer in Development Economics

Research specialism: growth and distribution, structural transformation, inflation, climate change

Dr Lawrence Ado-Kofie
Lecturer in Development Economics

Research specialism: development economics.

Prof Bina Agarwal
Professor in Development Economics and Environment

Research specialisms: gender inequality, agrarian change, environmental governance, property and land rights, group farming.

Dr Heather Alberro
Lecturer in Sustainability

Research specialisms: sustainable development, climate change politics, environmental justice.

Dr Shamel Azmeh
Senior Lecturer in Technology, Labour and Production

Research specialisms: global value chains, political economy, trade, labour, technology.

Dr Oliver Bakewell
Reader in Migration Studies

Research specialisms: migration, mobility and refugees, Africa, migration and development, diasporas, integration and belonging.

Prof Nicola Banks
Professor in International Development: Urban Development and Global Urbanism

Research specialisms: Tanzania, employment, youth, urban, NGOs.

Prof Armando BarrientosEmeritus Professor of Poverty and Social Justice

Research specialisms: development economics, social protection, social assistance, Latin America.

Prof Stephanie BarrientosEmeritus Professor in Development Policy, Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow

Research specialisms: global value chains, gender, corporate responsibility, production labour.

Prof Tanja Bastia
Professor of Migration and Development

Research specialisms: migration, Latin America, gender, race and ethnicity, social inequalities.

Dr Pritish Behuria
Senior Lecturer in Politics, Governance and Development

Research specialisms: African political economy, India, industrial policy, finance, state-business relations, energy transitions.

Dr Isis Barei-Guyot
Lecturer in Urban Development

Research specialisms: gender inequality, urban inequality and poverty, postcolonial theory.

Dr Admos Chimhowu
Senior Lecturer

Research specialisms: land reform, sustainable development, national planning, Zimbabwe.

Dr Katarzyna Cieslik
Senior Lecturer in Global Development

Research specialisms: social and environmental sustainability

Dr Michaela Collord
Lecturer in Politics and Development

Research specialisms: authoritarian dominance, distributive politics, labour informality, labour organising, transport

Dr Clare Cummings
Lecturer in Politics and Development

Research specialisms: political economy, climate change, environmental justice, power relations

Dr Natalie Cunningham
Senior Lecturer in Leadership for Development

Research specialisms: leadership development, organisational culture, coaching and talent management

Dr Upasak Das
Senior Lecturer in the Economics of Poverty Reduction

Research specialisms: development economics, poverty, poverty reduction.

Dr Carolin Dieterle
Hallsworth Research Fellow

Research specialisms: land governance, public authority,colonial legacies, international policymaking.

Prof Ralitza Dimova
Professor in Development Economics

Research specialisms: development economics, labour, food, behaviour.

Dr Richard Duncombe
Senior Lecturer in Information Systems and Development

Research specialisms: ICT4 development, information systems, technology.

Dr Ibrahim Efe
Research Fellow

Research specialisms: migration, identity, political communication.

Dr Kelechi Ekuma
Senior Lecturer in Management, Governance and Development Leadership

Research specialisms: governance reform, digital transformation, human resources, employability.

Dr Charis Enns
Senior Lecturer in Socio-Environmental Systems

Research specialisms: human and environmental geography, political ecology, land.

Dr Lujia Feng
Lecturer in Human Resource Management

Research specialisms: human resources, management.

Prof David Fielding
Professor in Development Economics

Research specialisms: economics of ethnic diversity, the economics of violent conflict, monetary unions, altruism.

Dr Chris Foster
Senior Lecturer

Research specialisms: digital development, value chains, digital trade, infrastructure, innovation.

Dr Tomas Frederiksen
Senior Lecturer in International Development

Research specialisms: political ecology, corporate social responsibility, extractive industry, mining, sustainability.

Dr Elisa Gambino
Lecturer in Global Development (Global Political Economy)

Research specialisms: China-Global South engagement, China's political economy, African development

Dr Ping Gao
Senior Lecturer in Information Systems

Research specialisms: information systems.

Dr Tom Gillespie
Lecturer in Global Urban Development and Hallsworth Research Fellow

Research specialisms: urban, Ghana, housing, social movements, urban development.

Prof Thomas Goodfellow
Professor of Urban Development

Research specialisms: urban development

Prof Richard Heeks
Professor in Digital Development

Research specialisms: digital development, ICT4D, digital economy, digital labour, data justice, China’s digital expansion, resilience

Prof Samuel Hickey
Professor in Politics and Development

Research specialisms: governance, social protection, oil, political development.

Dr Rory Horner
Reader in Globalisation and Political Economy

Research specialisms: global value chains, pharmaceuticals, trade.

Prof Farhad Hossain
Professor in Public Management and International Development

Research specialism: management, public administration and policy, international development, governance reform, capacity building, organisational behaviour.

Prof David Hulme
Professor in Development Studies

Research specialisms: poverty and poverty reduction, the political economy of development, climate change, NGOs and civil society, global inequality.

Dr Gianluca Iazzolino
Lecturer in Digital Development

Research specialisms: digital development, digital finance, digital platforms.

Dr Mohammed Ibrahim
Lecturer in HRM and International Development

Research specialisms: human resources, policy process, governance, state-society relations, sustainable development, Ghana.

Prof Tim Jacoby
Professor

Research specialisms: Middle East, political violence, faith, culture and humanitarianism

Dr Shirley Jenner
Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management

Research specialisms: management, human resources.

Dr Nicholas Jepson
Lecturer in International Development and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Research specialisms: globalisation, political economy, China, socio-economic change.

Dr Thuy Duong Khuu
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Research specialisms: biodiversity, Vietnam, protected areas, climate change

Dr Epiphania Kimaro
Lecturer in Information Systems and Digital Development

Research specialisms: digital development, ICT4D

Prof Uma Kothari
Professor in Migration and Postcolonial Studies

Research specialisms: migration and mobilities, colonialism and postcolonialism, humanitarianism, environmental change, travel and tourism.

Dr Tom Lavers
Reader in Politics, Governance and Management

Research specialisms: Ethiopia, comparative political economy, agrarian change, social policy, state-society relations.

Dr David Lawson
Senior Lecturer in Development Economics and Public Policy

Research specialisms: extreme poverty, access to justice, economic growth, cash transfers.

Prof Aminu Mamman
Professor of Management and International Development

Research specialisms: management, human resources.

Prof Diana Mitlin
Professor in Global Urbanism

Research specialisms: urban, collective action, housing, urban planning.

Dr Negar Monazam Tabrizi
Senior Lecturer in Information Systems and Digital Development

Research specialisms: ICT4 development, information systems, technology.

Prof Caroline Moser
Emeritus Professor

Research specialisms: urban, gender, housing.

Prof Tanja Müller
Professor in Political Sociology

Research specialisms: citizenship, global solidarity, refugees, revolutions, the horn of Africa.

Prof Khalid Nadvi
Professor in International Development

Research specialisms: political economy, global value chains, production, global standards, corporate social responsibility.

Dr Nafisatu Irene Okhade
Lecturer in HRM and International Development

Research specialisms: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) policy and infrastructure development

Dr Johan Oldekop
Reader in Environment and Development

Research specialisms: conversation, sustainability, forests.

Dr Osman Ouattara
Reader in Development Economics

Research specialisms: development economics, environment.

Dr Smith Ouma
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Research specialisms: urban planning, urban governance, Kenya, informal settlements, health.

Dr Saumik Paul

Senior Lecturer in Global Development

Research specialisms: inequality, political economy of development, structural transformation.

Dr Rose Pritchard
Presidential Fellow in Socio-Environmental Systems

Research specialisms: agriculture, rural livelihoods.

Prof Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira
Professor of Climate Change Governance and Global Development

Research specialisms: political economy of governance, institution building, policy implementation

Dr Chris Rees
Reader in Human Resources and Organisational Change

Research specialisms: organisational change, human resources, management.

Dr Dereje Regasa
Lecturer in HRM and International Development

Research specialisms: corporate finance, financial development, banking, economic growth, Finance-Growth Nexus.

Dr Jaco Renken
Senior Lecturer in Information and Communication Technology for Development

Research specialisms: ICT4 development, digital development, data-intensive development, development champions, leadership information systems.

Dr Kate Rowlands
Reader in Human Resource Management

Research specialisms: organisational change, human resources, management.

Dr Cristobal Ruiz-Tagle
Lecturer in Environmental Economics

Research specialisms: health, development, behavioural and climate change economics

Dr Antonio Savoia
Reader in Development Economics

Research specialisms: development economics, governance, development finance.

Prof Seth Schindler
Professor of Urban Politics and Development

Research specialisms: urban, urban planning, deindustrialization, urban transformation.

Prof Kunal Sen
Professor in Development Economics & Policy

Research specialisms: India, development, economics, political economy, growth, social exclusion.

Dr Rory Stanton
Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Development

Research specialisms: Human resource development, human resources.

Dr Gindo Tampubolon
Reader in Poverty, Inequality and Growth

Research specialisms: digital health, healthy ageing, blood biomarkers, cognitive function, longitudinal study.

Dr Mapenzie Tauzie
Lecturer in Human Resource Development

Research specialisms:

Dr Salauddin Tauseef
Lecturer in Development Economics

Research specialisms: economic theory, applied microeconometrics

Dr Erla Thrandardottir
Lecturer in Global Development (T&S)

Research specialisms: NGOs, NGO regulation

Dr Sophie Van Huellen
Senior Lecturer in Development Economics

Research specialisms: primary commodities, international finance and applied econometrics.

Dr Teklehaymanot Weldemichel
Lecturer in Environment and Development

Research specialisms: social and environmental justice, the politics of violence and conflict, humanitarianism, conservation and contested landscapes, and political ecology.

Prof Dale Whittington
Emeritus Professor

Research specialisms: water, dams.

Prof Philip Woodhouse
Emeritus Professor

Research specialisms: irrigation, agriculture, environment.

Dr Yin-Fang Zhang
Senior Lecturer in Development Economics

Research specialisms: development economics, China, corporate governance.