CDPR Staff
The CDPR draws on the research expertise of the academic staff in the Department of Development Studies, the Department of Economics and other departments within SOAS. These researchers have regional specialities, with particular strengths in Asia, Africa and the Middle East and varied disciplinary backgrounds, including economics, political economy, political science and sociology.
Permanent CDPR Staff
Terry McKinley
Director
Growth, Human Development, Employment, Inequality and Poverty. Transition Economies (Armenia, China, Mongolia, Uzbekistan); Asia (Indonesia); Africa (South Africa, Zambia); Middle East (Sudan, Yemen).
- Tel: 020 7898 4316
- Email: tm9@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 477
Hannah Bargawi
Researcher
Trade, Poverty and Inequality, Commodities, International debt and aid, International Financial Institutions, Rural development, Agriculture, Intra-household research, Africa, Middle East, Asia
- Tel: 020 7898 4496
- Email: hb19@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 476
Professorial Research Associates
John Weeks
Macroeconomics and poverty reduction, classical political economy, and labour markets
- Email: jw10@soas.ac.uk
Research Partners
Samantha Ashman
Research Partner
Researcher at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and Visiting Researcher at the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development Research Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Kate Bayliss
Research Partner
The impact of privatisation and commercialisation; public and private sector systems of provision; infrastructure development; utilities; role of domestic private sector in basic service delivery, equity impact of institutional and infrastructure reform.
- Tel: 020 7898 4496
- Email: kb6@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 476
Carlos Castel Branco
Research Partner
Director, Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos (IESE), Maputo, Mozambique
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Research Partner
Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University and IDEAs, India
Giovanni Cozzi
Research Partner
Financial globalization and free-cross border capital mobility, capital controls, financial and currency crises, and financial and real sector linkages. Political Economy of Development, Development Finance and Economics.
Esther Dweck
Research Partner
Researcher, Institute of Economics, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Andrew M. Fischer
Research Partner
Senior Lecturer in Population and Social Policy, Convenor of the Poverty Studies MA, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam
Alemayehu Geda
Research Partner
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Antonio Carlos Macedo
Research Partner
Professor, Institute of Economics, University of Campinas, Brazil
Seeraj Mohamed
Research Partner
Director, Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development Research Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Pranab Mukhopadhyay
Research Partner
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Goa and IDEAs, India
Susan Newman
Research Partner
International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University of Rotterdam
Nicolas Pons-Vignon
Research Partner
Senior Researcher, Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development Research Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Sahar Taghdisi Rad
Research Partner
International Development Consultant; and Researcher at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London
- Email: sahar.rad2@gmail.com
John Serieux
Research Partner
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Andy Sumner
Research Partner
Research Fellow in the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK
- Email: as139@soas.ac.uk
