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The Global Development Institute is made up of over 50 academics from over five continents and 18 different countries. We are driven by the desire to advance social justice by conducting world-class, interdisciplinary research that achieves real impact.
The Global Development Institute is led by the Institute's Managing Director Professor Khalid Nadvi.
The Global Development Institute is made up of over 50 academics and up to 100 PhD students from across disciplines as well as a network of associates within the University and around the world. Our academics research is focussed around seven groups; digital development, migration, refugees and asylum, global urban futures, growth and distribution, politics, governance and management, global production networks, trade and labour and, agrarian change and political ecology.
Our researchers are supported by the communications and administrative support teams.
Staff list
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.
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Academic staff
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 Shamel Azmeh
Lecturer in Technology, Labour and Production
Research specialisms: global value chains, political economy, trade, labour, technology.
Dr Nicola Banks
Senior Lecturer in International Development: Urban Development and Global Urbanism
Research specialisms: Tanzania, employment, youth, urban, NGOs.
Dr Oliver Bakewell
Senior Lecturer in Migration Studies
Research specialisms: migration, mobility and refugees, Africa, migration and development, diasporas, integration and belonging.
Prof Armando Barrientos
Emeritus Professor of Poverty and Social Justice
Research specialisms: development economics, social protection, social assistance, Latin America.
Prof Stephanie Barrientos
Professor in Development Policy
Research specialisms: global value chains, gender, corporate responsibility, production labour.
Mr Paul Barry
Honorary Teaching Fellow
Research specialisms: management, organisational behaviour.
Dr Tanja Bastia
Reader
Research specialisms: migration, Latin America, gender, race and ethnicity, social inequalities.
Prof Anthony Bebbington
Professorial Research Fellow
Research specialisms: governance.
Dr Pritish Behuria
Lecturer in Politics, Governance and Development
Research specialisms: political economy, developmental states, industrial policy, Rwanda.
Dr Admos Chimhowu
Senior Lecturer
Research specialisms: land reform, sustainable development, national planning, Zimbabwe.
Dr Upasak Das
Presidential Fellow in the Economics of Poverty Reduction
Research specialisms: development economics, poverty, poverty reduction
Dr Ralitza Dimova
Reader 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 Kelechi Ekuma
Lecturer in Governance and Development Leadership
Research specialisms: human resource development, politics of development, the fourth industrial revolution, public policy.
Presidential Fellow in Socio-Environmental Systems
Research specialisms: human and environmental geography, political ecology, land
Lecturer in Human Resource Management
Research specialisms: human resources, management.
Professor in Development Economics
Research specialisms: economics of ethnic diversity, the economics of violent conflict, monetary unions, altruism.
Dr Tomas Frederiksen
Lecturer in International Development
Research specialisms: political ecology, corporate social responsibility, extractive industry, mining, sustainability.
Dr Chris Foster
Presidential Fellow
Research specialisms: digital development, value chains, digital trade, infrastructure, innovation
Dr Ping Gao
Senior Lecturer in Information Systems
Research specialisms: information systems.
Dr Tom Gillespie
Lecturer in Poverty, Inequality and Pro-Poor Politics
Research specialisms: urban, Ghana, housing, social movements, urban development.
Prof Richard Heeks
Professor in Development Informatics
Research specialisms: ICT4D, data justice, digital economy, digital labour, resilience.
Prof Samuel Hickey
Professor in Politics and Development
Research specialisms: governance, social protection, oil, political development.
Dr Rory Horner
Senior Lecturer in Globalisation and Political Economy
Research specialisms: global value chains, pharmaceuticals, trade.
Dr Farhad Hossain
Reader in Development Management and Policy
Research specialism: management.
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.
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
Research specialisms: globalisation, political economy, China, socio-economic change.
Prof Uma Kothari
Professor in Migration and Postcolonial Studies
Research specialisms: migration and mobilities, colonialism and postcolonialism, humanitarianism, environmental change, travel and tourism.
Dr Aarti Krishnan
Hallsworth Research Fellow
Research specialisms: trade, food, agriculture, global value chains.
Dr David Lawson
Senior Lecturer in Development Economics and Public Policy
Research specialisms: extreme poverty, access to justice, economic growth, cash transfers.
Dr Tom Lavers
Senior Lecturer in Politics, Governance and Management
Research specialisms: Ethiopia, comparative political economy, agrarian change, social policy, state-society relations.
Prof Aminu Mamman
Professor of Management and International Development
Research specialisms: management, human resources.
Prof Diana Mitlin
Professor in Global Urbanism / Director of Global Urban Research Centre
Research specialisms: urban, collective action, housing, urban planning.
Dr Negar Monazam Tabrizi
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 Johan Oldekop
Senior Lecturer in Environment and Development
Research specialisms: conversation, sustainability, forests.
Dr Osman Ouattara
Senior Lecturer in Development Economics
Research specialisms: development economics, environment.
Dr Rose Pritchard
Presidential Fellow in Socio-Environmental Systems
Research specialisms: agriculture, rural livelihoods
Dr Chris Rees
Reader in Human Resources and Organisational Change
Research specialisms: organisational change, human resources, management.
Dr Jaco Renken
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
Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management
Research specialisms: organisational change, human resources, management.
Dr Antonio Savoia
Senior Lecturer in Development Economics
Research specialisms: development economics, governance, development finance.
Dr Seth Schindler
Senior Lecturer in Urban Development and Urban Transformation
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
Lecturer in Human Resource Development
Research specialisms: Human resource development, human resources.
Marie Curie-Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow
Research specialisms: economic geography, social innovation, value chains
Dr Gindo Tampubolon
Lecturer in Poverty, Inequality and Growth
Research specialisms: digital health, healthy ageing, blood biomarkers, cognitive function, longitudinal study.
Dr Matthew Tyce
EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Research specialisms: Kenya
Dr Vidhya Unnikrishnan
Lecturer in Development Economics
Research specialisms: economics, development economics.
Professor Dale Whittington
Professor of International Development
Research specialisms: water, dams.
Prof Philip Woodhouse
Professor in Environment and Development
Research specialisms: irrigation, agriculture, environment.
Dr Yin-Fang Zhang
Senior Lecturer in Development Economics
Research specialisms: development economics, China, corporate governance.
Teaching and research associates
Dr Ezana Haddis Weldeghebrael
GCRF Visiting Fellow
Dr Matt Walsham
Research Associate, South-South Migration Hub
Dr Roshan Adhikari
Research Associate, FutureDAMS
Dr Barnaby Dye
Research Associate, FutureDAMS
Mesghina Abraha
Research Associate, Transnational lived citizenship: Practices of citizenship as political belonging among emerging diasporas in the Horn of Africa.
Dr Giovanni Pasquali
Research Associate; Shifting South: decent work in regional value chains and South-South trade
Honorary and visiting fellows
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Current PhD students
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