IDS, University of Sussex

The Governance team are a group of academics with a background in political and social science, many with practical experience in the development aid field. Drawing on the critical tradition in development studies to develop an independent position on current governance debates, the work intersects with other debates in the fields of economics, the law, feminist theory, ecology and environmental studies. A particular strength is the work on the politics of poverty, and on democratisation and social equity. The Governance team manages the Centre for the Future State which was established at IDS in August 2000, under a five-year grant from the UK Department for International Development (DFID), to provide critical and practical understanding of issues relating to the future of public authority in developing countries (http://www.ids.ac.uk/gdr/cfs/index.html).

Contact Details
Catherine Gee, Development Office
Email: development@ids.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1273 606261/6
Fax: +44 (0) 1273 621202/

ZANDER NAVARRO (part-time, based overseas part of the year)
z.navarro@ids.ac.uk
Sociologist working on theories of development and related topics on collective action and social movements, with a specialization in agrarian studies. He also works on theories of democracy and processes of democratization and participatory experiments (with emphasis on Brazil), apart from a special interest in the sociological theory proposed by Pierre Bourdieu.

JOY MONCRIEFFE
j.moncrieffe@ids.ac.uk
Political/social scientist working on citizenship and power, particularly among children growing up in violent contexts; democratisation and accountability; ethnicity and identities; politics and inequalities; and religion and development. Research experience in Africa and the Caribbean.

LINDA WALDMAN
l.waldman@ids.ac.uk
Social anthropologist with extensive research experience in racial classification, ethnicity, identity, ritual and gender in South Africa. Doctoral research at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, focused on indigenous identity and nationalism amongst the Griqua of South Africa. Recent research interests include a study of asbestos environmental pollution, its socio-cultural ramifications in South Africa and the UK, citizen mobilization and international litigation.

JOHN THOMPSON
j.thompson@ids.ac.uk
Resource geographer specialising in understanding the dynamics of nature-society interactions and power, knowledge and sustainability issues. Interdisciplinary research involves the political ecology and governance of agri-food systems, community-based natural resource management, water-environment-health interactions, and deliberative policy processes, citizen action and social change, in both developing and industrialised countries.

PETER TAYLOR
p.taylor@ids.ac.uk
Interests in participatory and contextualised approaches in teaching and learning, curriculum development and evaluation, and teacher/trainer training at primary, secondary, vocational and tertiary levels of education. Research and advisory work in education for agriculture, forestry and rural development. Convenor of MA in Participation, Development and Social Change.

THOMAS TANNER
t.tanner@ids.ac.uk
Social scientist specialising in the policy and practice of adaptation to climate change, particularly in linking approaches to development, disasters and climate change. Research interests include climate risk management, child-centred approaches, social protection, organisational change, and adaptation policy processes.

MARIZ TADROS
m.tadros@ids.ac.uk
Research and teaching interests in gender empowerment; advocacy, participation and development; state-society relations & citizenship; and moderate Islamist political parties and the politics of inclusion. Journalist for 10 years.

ANDY SUMNER
a.sumner@ids.ac.uk
Cross-disciplinary economist. Primary foci of interest are poverty reduction strategies with particular reference to childhood poverty, the politics of policy making and research influence/accountability. He has conducted work for DFID, the Global Development Network, Grameen Bank, IFAD, Save the Children, UNDP, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNHABITAT, UNDESA, and UNU. His work to date has focused on East/Southern Africa and South/East Asia.

ESHA SHAH
e.shah@ids.ac.uk
Main areas of work involve anthropology and history of science and technology with special reference to agrarian environment. Other research interests include risk, uncertainty, and regulation of emerging technologies and social context of collective participation in natural resource management. Her main research experience is in India and south Asia.

ANNA SCHMIDT
a.schmidt@ids.ac.uk
Political scientist with a particular interest in humanitarian aid evaluation and effectiveness, humanitarian emergencies and forced migration, conflict analysis and post-conflict reconstruction, as well as human rights and security matters, and social network analysis. Multiple years’ field experience in conflict and post-conflict settings across Sub-Saharan Africa, including humanitarian aid-management and electoral monitoring.

SHERMAN ROBINSON (part-time)
s.robinson@ids.ac.uk
Also Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex. Research interests include international trade, macroeconomic policy, income distribution, poverty, and policy-oriented general equilibrium modeling. Former Director of the Trade and Macroeconomics Division, IFPRI. Has held visiting senior-staff appointments at the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; the U.S. Congressional Budget Office; and the President's Council of Economic Advisers (Clinton administration).

PROFESSOR LAWRENCE HADDAD
L.Haddad@ids.ac.uk
Main research interests have been at the intersection of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition - including poverty dynamics, social capital, HIV/AIDS, social protection, agriculture and poverty, and women's empowerment. An economist, he was selected for the latest Who's Who in Economics (Elgar).

GERALD BLOOM
G.Bloom@ids.ac.uk
Physician and social scientist with an interest in the adaptation of health systems to rapid economic and social change. Areas of focus include finance, performance of markets for health-related goods and services and the changing role of government. Experience in China, SE Asia and a number of African countries.

TOM MITCHELL
t.mitchell@ids.ac.uk
Geographer working on climate change, disaster management, participatory processes and governance. Practical experience includes conducting deliberative processes for improving disaster resilience and working with small-island developing states to assess disaster policy. Other interests include volcanoes, livelihoods, education and social vulnerability. Extensive experience in the Caribbean and shorter assignments in the Indian Ocean.

SARAH COOK
s.cook@ids.ac.uk
Economist/social scientist focusing on the social impact of economic reform and transition; employment and human resources and their interaction with poverty and income distribution; special emphasis on gender, household economics and intra-household resource allocation. Research focus on China and SE Asia.

PROFESSOR ANDREA CORNWALL
a.cornwall@ids.ac.uk
Social anthropologist. Special interest in gender, sexuality, rights and democracy. Current research focuses on participatory governance in the health sector, sexual rights and women's empowerment. Fieldwork experience in Brazil, southern and West Africa and the UK. Director of the Research Programme Consortium Pathways of Women's Empowerment (www.pathways-of-empowerment.org).

STEPHEN DEVEREUX [based overseas]
S.G.Devereux@ids.ac.uk
Economist working on food security, rural livelihoods, social protection and poverty reduction. Research experience mainly in Africa, especially Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi and Namibia.

ROSALIND EYBEN
R.Eyben@ids.ac.uk
Feminist social anthropologist with a career in international development policy and practice. Long-term experience of working and living in anglophone and francophone Africa, India and most recently in Latin America. Research and teaching interests concern power relations and theories of change, particularly in the field of international aid.

PROFESSOR JOHN GAVENTA
J.P.Gaventa@ids.ac.uk
Political sociologist working on citizen participation, power, participatory research and education methodologies and participatory governance; interested in linking participation to policies and programmes of larger institutions and in training and capacity building for strengthening civil society.

RICARDO GOTTSCHALK
R.Gottschalk@ids.ac.uk
Economist with current research interest in the developmental impact of capital flows to emerging economies. Other interests include empirics of economic growth, macroeconomics of developing countries, economic reforms and sustainability in Latin America, and issues concerning exchange-rate-based stabilisation programmes. Long term work and research experience in Brazil.

MARTIN GREELEY
M.Greeley@ids.ac.uk
Development Economist with over 30 years professional experience. His main areas of interest are: aid and public policy, agricultural development, programme and project impact evaluation, poverty measurement and assessment and microfinance. He has researched and published extensively on poverty and public policy in Africa and Asia.

PETER HOUTZAGER
P.Houtzager@ids.ac.uk
Political scientist with broad training in comparative politics and historical-institutional analysis. Areas of specialisation include: analysis of political empowerment strategies and democratisation processes; research on state-society relations, institutional roots of collective action, social movement theory, democratisation and political development in Latin America.

PROFESSOR JOHN HUMPHREY
J.Humphrey@ids.ac.uk
Sociologist working on global value chains and their impact on employment and trade in developing countries. Specific interests in the automotive and horticulture industries, global concentration in retail and its impact on developing country manufacturers and how e-commerce is being used to link firms in developed and developing countries.

ANURADHA JOSHI
A.Joshi@ids.ac.uk
Urban planner with a focus on public policy and extensive experience in institutional analysis of development programmes. Has worked in a variety of sectors including poverty, low-income housing, urban public services, taxation of the informal sector and environmental policy. Convenor of the research theme on Collective Action and Service Delivery as a part of the DFID-funded Development Research Centre for the Future State at IDS.

PROFESSOR NAILA KABEER
N.Kabeer@ids.ac.uk
Economist working on the social and economic interactions between households, communities and the wider economy. Areas of specialisation include: poverty, social exclusion and gender in relation to labour markets and livelihood strategies in the context of globalisation. Currently engaged in research on social protection strategies and struggles for citizenship among workers in the informal economy

PROFESSOR MELISSA LEACH
M.Leach@ids.ac.uk
Social anthropologist and director of the ESRC STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre. Research interests include social and institutional dimensions of environment and health, including forest ecology, agriculture, vaccines and epidemic disease; knowledge, power and policy processes, and citizenship and participation. She works especially in West Africa, the Caribbean and the UK.

HENRY LUCAS
H.Lucas@ids.ac.uk
Information, research methodology and M&E specialist with a special interest in the health sector. Long term research and consultancy experience in Africa, China, South East Asia and the Pacific. Current activities focus on social protection and health, PRSP monitoring and the impact of new information and communications technologies on the health sector.

JING GU
j.gu@ids.ac.uk
Political economist with a background in law and finance. Research interests include issues of governance and accountability, international trade disputes settlement, institutional, political and legal aspects of trade policy-making. A specific concern is with the role of the private sector in the Chinese economy. Her recent research focus is on the implications of China's economic growth for developing countries from political economy perspectives.

NEIL McCULLOCH
N.A.McCulloch@ids.ac.uk
Economist with a focus on the quantitative analysis of poverty dynamics using large household survey data sets. Interests also include the relationship between poverty, growth and inequality and the impact of trade liberalisation upon poverty. Research experience in Africa and Asia especially Pakistan, China and Zambia.

ROSEMARY McGEE
R.McGee@ids.ac.uk
Development social scientist with research focus on: participation and policy change; qualitative and quantitative poverty research and epistemology; civil society participation in local and national governance. Other interests include institutional transformation; Southern ownership and partnership in development cooperation; poverty analysis methodologies. Ethnographic and RRA experience in Colombia; field research in Honduras; policy research and PPA experience in Uganda.

LYLA MEHTA
L.Mehta@ids.ac.uk
Sociologist working on forced migration, environment/development linkages and science/ society relations. Areas of research include: the politics of water and scarcity; linkages between gender, displacement and resistance; rights and access to resouces; ‘public' and ‘private' aspects of water and community-led total sanitation.

PROFESSOR MICK MOORE
M.P.Moore@ids.ac.uk
Political economist working on political and institutional aspects of 'good government', especially the international dimensions; taxation and accountability; service delivery; and government-business relations.

MARZIA FONTANA
m.fontana@ids.ac.uk
Economist with particular interest in social and economic dimensions of inequality. Recent research focuses on gender inequalities, employment, unpaid work and international trade. Field experience in South Asia, Fiji and North Africa.

CELESTINE NYAMU (leave of absence from April 2008 for 2 years)
C.Nyamu@ids.ac.uk
Lawyer with inter-disciplinary post-graduate training in legal anthropology. Areas of interest: overlap between formal and informal legal regulation of land relations, access to justice at the local level, gender equity in resource control, local implementation of international human rights standards, rights-based approaches to development, integrating participatory approaches into rights advocacy.

JERKER EDSTROM
j.edstrom@ids.ac.uk
A development social scientist and worker primarily focused on HIV/AIDS and Development. Formerly a Director at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, overseeing NGO support programme development and methodological adaptation, such as the institutionalisation of participation, over a decade. Current interests include gender and masculinities, the informal economy of sex, HIV related citizenship and policy, intergenerational transmission of vulnerability and children affected by HIV and AIDS.

RACHEL SABATES-WHEELER
R.Sabates-Wheeler@ids.ac.uk
Development economist with training in agricultural economics, econometrics and survey design. Other areas of specialisation include: comparative law with an emphasis on comparative legal cultures; post-socialist transition, including the economic and social implications of transition for the rural sector, the gendered implications of newly acquired law and analysis of newly emerging production and farming systems; and land reform implementation and the policy implications of land reform.

PROFESSOR HUBERT SCHMITZ
H.Schmitz@ids.ac.uk
Political economist specialising in: industrialisation and employment; industrial clusters and collective efficiency; governance and upgrading in global value chains; value chain analysis for policy makers. Current projects: implications of China’s economic rise; the changing knowledge divide in the global economy; the politics of investment and growth.

PROFESSOR IAN SCOONES
I.Scoones@ids.ac.uk
Natural resource ecologist interested in exploring the links between ecological dynamics and local resource management with a focus on dry-land areas in Africa. Interdisciplinary research has involved examining issues of rangeland and pastoral development, soil and water conservation, forestry and woodland management, as well as biodiversity and protected area issues.

HILARY STANDING
H.Standing@ids.ac.uk
Social scientist/social anthropologist specialising in health and development. Interests include household level and gender aspects of health, formal and informal care systems, gender and equity in health reforms, the management of organisational change in health sector restructuring and improving accountability within health systems. Has worked extensively in South Asia.

PROFESSOR DAVID LEONARD
d.leonard@ids.ac.uk
Political scientist specializing in governance and organization theory, particularly the delivery of agricultural, development, education, human health, and veterinary services in rural areas. Now also working on conflict and governance in Africa. Formerly served at the Universities of Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and California, Berkeley. At latter served as Dean of International and Area Studies.

HAYLEY MACGREGOR
h.macgregor@ids.ac.uk
Social Anthropologist with a background in clinical medicine. Specialisation in medical anthropology with interest in psychiatry and mental health services in post-conflict and low income settings. Research concerns include human rights discourses and citizen mobilisation in the context of health provisioning, and the ethnography of biomedical research and health technologies.

FARHANA YAMIN
F.Yamin@ids.ac.uk
International lawyer with a background in politics and philosophy. Currently working on global environmental issues with particular reference to climate change, energy and biodiversity. The boundaries between law, ethics and politics informs her work which has focused on legal, institutional and procedural aspects of environmental policy-making, including international issues relating to participation and justice.

XAVIER CIRERA
x.cirera@ids.ac.uk
Economist with a particular interest in the impact of trade reform and regional integration. Recent research focuses on the impact of different regional and preferential trade agreements. Other interests also include the analysis of spatial price variations and the functioning of markets. Research experience in Southern Africa.

PROFESSOR ROBERT CHAMBERS
R.Chambers@ids.ac.uk
Knowledge in development, including perceptions, concepts and realities of poverty and wellbeing; the development and dissemination of participatory methodologies for workshops and training, and for the empowerment of poor people; and relationships in development, including procedural, institutional and personal change.

PROFESSOR SIR RICHARD JOLLY
R.Jolly@ids.ac.uk
A development economist currently working on long-run trends in global inequality and the history of UN contributions to economic and social development. Before this, he worked for two decades, as Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and as Principal Coordinator of UNDP's Human Development Report.

ROBIN LUCKHAM
R.Luckham@ids.ac.uk
Sociologist/political scientist who continues work on conflict and political violence; security transformation and development; democratisation; and democratic control of security institutions. Previous research interests include military institutions and power; disarmament and development; relationships between strategic and popular culture; and legal systems and the legal profession. Has worked in a number of African countries, notably Nigeria and Ghana.

NAOMI HOSSEIN
n.hossein@ids.ac.uk
Research includes the political effects of discourses of poverty and governance; social change in gender and childhood; political culture among poor and marginal people; and people’s experiences of governance with respect to social protection and crime and violence; peace-building and human security; identities and rights, poverty, marginality and governance.

PATRICIA JUSTINO
p.justino@ids.ac.uk
Economist specialising in quantitative development economics. Research interests include the micro-level causes and effects of violent conflict, the measurement of inequality and poverty, and the role of social security and redistribution on economic growth. She is the Director of MICROCON (www.microconflict.eu ) and co-directs the Households in Conflict Network (www.hicn.org ).

MARC P. BERENSON
m.berenson@ids.ac.uk
Political scientist. His work focuses on public policy in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, with particular attention to the comparative analysis of post-communist governing institutions. He has done extensive field research and surveys in Poland, Russia and Ukraine on tax compliance and the provision of social welfare payments. He has worked as a research analyst for a number of NGOs as well as founded a rule-of-law project for Freedom House in Ukraine.

SALLY SMITH
S.Smith@ids.ac.uk
Rural Development expert specialising in ethical trade. Currently working on ‘Ethical Trade in African Horticulture: Gender, Rights & Participation’, and developing methodology for social and poverty impact assessment of industrial clusters.

ANDES MEJIA ACOSTA
a.mejiaacosta@ids.ac.uk
Political scientist currently studying the impact of natural resource revenues on budgetary politics and state capacities in Latin America. Publications include journal articles and book chapters on electoral systems, political parties, legislative politics, budget governance, the policymaking process, informal institutions, and democratic governance in the Andean region and the Caribbean.

ALEX SHANKLAND
A.Shankland@ids.ac.uk
Research Manager for the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (Citizenship DRC), participation in policy processes, health, environment and education, linking rights and participation. Brazil, Africa.

JENNIFER LEAVY
J.Leavy@ids.ac.uk
Agricultural Economist with an interest in rural poverty issues, linking growth to poverty reduction in rural Africa, analysis of the functioning of labour markets, with reference to Zambia, combining anthropological and economic approaches.

MERYLYN MCKENZIE HEDGER
m.hedger@ids.ac.uk
Social scientist. After starting a spatial planner in Wales, developed research interests in energy, and latterly climate change. Long term experience in Ecuador and Papua New Guinea and short assignments in the Caribbean, Brazil, and Niger. Worked in government on UK and European climate change policy making, including renewable energy and emissions trading. Research interests in international governance of climate change, particularly finance aspects, the science-policy interface of climate change, the interface between climate change adaptation and development, and the integration of climate change into sectoral planning such as water.

ANTON SIMANOWITZ
A.Simanowitz@ids.ac.uk
Socio-economist; skills in participatory/action research, evaluation, impact assessment, poverty-focussed methodology development and innovation, participatory facilitation and training, microfinance and poverty-focussed livelihood analysis and support.

PATTA SCOTT-VILLIERS
P.Scott-Villiers@ids.ac.uk
Trainer and knowledge manager working on learning systems for participatory approaches to development. Participation issues in Africa and Asia for NGOs and the United Nations and more recently in Britain, institutional and community learning.

JETHRO PETTIT
j.pettit@ids.ac.uk
Works on the design and facilitation of learning and on creative approaches to reflective practice, participatory action research and social leadership, within progressive development and social change efforts. Interested in the use of participatory learning methodologies to create and communicate new knowledge and ways of being, which lead to changes in power relations. Currently focused on curriculum and teaching practices for use in training, facilitation, adult learning and higher education settings, as well as organisational learning and change processes, and how these relate to strengthening civil and political society, social movements, advocacy and rights-based development.

NIAGALE BAGAYOKO-PENONE
n.bagayoko-penone@ids.ac.uk
A political scientist. She has done extensive field research in several francophone countries in Africa and has studied the impact of Western security policies (France, United States, European Union) on African conflict-management mechanisms. She now concentrates on the interface between security and development, especially its international dimension. Her thematic expertise is French and American Security Policies in West Africa; Sub-regional security mechanisms in West Africa (ECOWAS); Peacekeeping and military reforms in Africa; European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) in Africa; Inter-agencies and multilateral processes in post-conflict environments.

DIRK WILLENBOCKEL
d.willenbockel@ids.ac.uk
Economist with research interests in international economic integration, trade, growth and development. Experience and publications in quantitative economic policy modelling with particular expertise in computable general equilibrium analysis under imperfect competition.

PROFESSOR FIONA WILSON
f.wilson@ids.ac.uk
Research interests: understanding dynamics of provincial societies, seen in relation to the state and global relations; changing economies (‘clandestine’ clothing workshops in Mexico and migration); discrimination rooted in ‘race’ and political violence in Andean Peru; social/political position of new professionals (school teachers); public authority, citizenship, and ‘doing politics’ in the context of decentralization policy in Andean Peru.