I am a Senior Lecturer in International Development at the University of Sussex. My research is focused on the politics of extractive industries, and the role of private sector finance in international development. In my research and teaching, I explore these issue by engaging with science & technology studies, political ecology, postcolonial studies and the sociology/geography of finance. I have carried out long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Bangladesh and the United Kingdom, as well as shorter periods of research in South Africa.