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Amy R. Poteete is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research explores the politics surrounding natural resources, development, and elections in Africa, particularly in Botswana and Senegal. Another strand of writing concerns methodological issues. Her work considers how political dynamics and institutional arrangements interact to influence (de)centralization in both decision-making and access to valuable resources, as well as how distributional inclusivity/exclusivity in turn influences political dynamics. She is the coauthor, with Marco A. Janssen and Elinor Ostrom, of Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice (Princeton University Press), which has been translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Portuguese. She received the Dudley Seers Memorial Prize for best article in volume 45 of the Journal of Development Studies for her article, “Is Development Path Dependent or Political? A Reinterpretation of Mineral-Dependent Development in Botswana” (April 2009). Other publications include chapters in edited volumes and articles in a variety of journals, including Development and Change, Electoral Studies, the Journal of Development Studies, the Journal of Modern African Studies, and World Development.
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Chris Barrington-Leigh is an Associate Professor at McGill University, jointly appointed at the Institute for Health and Social Policy and the School of Environment, and is an associate member in McGill's Department of Economics. One strand of Chris' research is focused on empirical and quantitative assessments of human well-being, and their implications for economic, social, and environmental policy. He uses large international as well as national surveys, experiments, and economic theoretical modeling to understand individual and aggregate consumption benefits, and their implications for policy, including a broad transition to sustainability. Another current strand of work aims to understand household economic and health effects of Beijing's rural household heating coal-to-electricity programme. A third interest of Chris' is the structure of urban road networks, globally, and their implication for development and climate policy. Chris received his doctorate in Economics at the University of British Columbia and was a Global Scholar of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (2009-2014). He originally trained in upper atmospheric and space plasma physics at M.I.T., Stanford, and Berkeley.
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Tim is a Senior Lecturer in Labour, Social Movements and Development at SOAS, University of London and Editor of The China Quarterly. His research focuses on labour movements, industrial relations and trade union reform in China, Russia and Vietnam. From 1996 to 2006, Tim worked with various labour rights organisations in Hong Kong and Mainland China prior to embarking on a PhD at the University of Warwick. Tim has published his research in numerous trade union, labour NGO and peer-reviewed journals and contributed chapters to many edited books. His own books include Trade Unions in China: the challenge of labour unrest re-issued in paperback by Routledge in 2013 and co-authorship of The Challenge of Transition: Trade Unions in Russia, China and Vietnam (2011, Palgrave). Tim’s recent articles include the ‘Rise (and possible) Fall of “Collective Bargaining” in South China’ (2015) International Union Rights; ‘A Class Against Capital: Class and Collective Bargaining in Guangdong’, Globalizations, 2017: 14 (2); ‘Taking Matters into their own hands’ New Internationalist (2016); a blog post entitled ‘What to LNGOs in China do?’ (2016) China Policy Institute; ‘A Solidarity Machine? Hong Kong Labour NGOs in Guangdong, Critical Sociology (2017) Online First ); and ‘Taming Labour: Workers’ struggles, workplace unionism and collective bargaining on a Chinese waterfront’ (2018) ILRReview with Meng Quan.
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Research Associate for University of Bristol. Former Teaching Fellow with School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London (SOAS).
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Bereket Tsegay is Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst at the London based not-for-profit research institute the Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA). He taught also as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and earned a PhD in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the University of London working on the issue of Green Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. His research has focused on policy analysis, natural resource governance, food security, pastoralism, dynamics of institutions in development, climate change resilience and green economy, risk management as well as social protection. Bereket has rich experience in both consultancy and programme management of the EU and UN-supported activities in the Horn of Africa region countries including Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somaliland, South Sudan and Sudan and Uganda.
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I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. My current research focuses on underspending of social welfare funds. I have a PhD in Development Studies from SOAS University of London. My areas of research interest are citizenship, structural social inequalities, and development in India.
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Andrew is Lecturer in International Development, in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London. He is Programme Convenor for the MSc Environment, Politics and Development, in the Department of Development Studies, and the MSc Climate Change and Development, in the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy. He brings practical and theoretical insights from social anthropology and human geography to a research agenda which encompasses environment and development in Southern Africa and South America, with a particular focus on climate change adaptation and development.
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My research looks at the history and politics of development in Africa, with a particular focus on the role of non-state actors in development; on the role of religious and religious organisations in development; and on issues around health and development in Africa; and on what 'localisation' means in relation to both development and humanitarian action. My main geographical focus has been on eastern Africa, though I have also worked on research projects exploring these themes in other sub-Saharan African regions, and in Asia.
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I am a specialist in global commodity chains, sweatshop labour, global labour standards, CSR and ethical trade, labour unfreedom in garment factories and home-based settings, and on the political economy of India. I do also work on gender and globalisation and feminist and social reproduction approaches.
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Experienced Public Policy Advisor working on evidence based policy development and Impact Assessment. Prior joining Qatar Foundation, Dr. Ahmed Aref worked for UNFPA Regional Office; EU Program on Family and Child Rights and the Egyptian Prime Minister’s Office. His areas of expertise include social protection, maternity protection, social inclusion/exclusion, labour policy, family policy, demography and sustainable development. He delivered high-quality national, regional and international consultancies, led impact programs in the mentioned fields. Email: ahmed.aref@bath.edu