CeDEP Staff
Andrew Dorward
Professor of Development Economics; Programme Director: Agricultural Economics, Managing Rural Development
Agricultural and rural development processes and policies, building from strong interdisciplinary, livelihood and institutional understandings. Links between these, environmental challenges and wider development processes. - Tel: 020 3073 8330
- Email: andrew.dorward@soas.ac.uk
- Room: LIDC202
Nigel Poole
Academic Programme Director, Agribusiness for Development
Agrifood marketing, market coordination and information issues in agribusiness and poverty reduction, sustainable use of natural resource products, food safety and quality, urban and rural development.
- Tel: 020 7898 4375
- Email: n.poole@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 531
- Office Hours: Monday 12-1pm
Laurence Smith
Senior Lecturer; Academic Programme Convenor: Applied Environmental Economics
Natural resource management, water resources, rural development and poverty reduction.Catchment management for protection of water resources.
- Tel: +44 (0)20 3073 8328
- Email: ls34@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 204
Colin Poulton
Research Fellow, CeDEP
Rural development and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tel: 020 3073 8327
- Email: cp31@soas.ac.uk
- Room: LIDC 203
Ben Daley
Academic Programme Director, Sustainable Development
Sustainable development, environmental change, environmental history, environmental management - Tel: 020 3073 8333
- Email: bd9@soas.ac.uk
- Room: LIDC 205
Bhavani Shankar
Professor of International Agriculture, Food and Health
Analysis of economic drivers of over and under nutrition, nutrition transition, dietary policy evaluation, impact assessment and the role of agriculture in enabling better nutrition and health
- Tel: 0207 958 8263
- Email: b.shankar@soas.ac.uk
- Room: LIDC 402
Peter Buckley
Associate Academic Programme Director, Biodiversity Conservation and Management
Maintaining biodiversity in man-managed ecosystems and testing the effectiveness of conservation management techniques
- Email: peter.buckley@soas.ac.uk
Frauke Urban
Lecturer in Environment and Development
Climate change and development, climate change mitigation, low carbon development, energy policy, with a regional focus on Asia.
- Tel: 0203 0738329
- Email: fu1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: LIDC 203
Peter Hazell
Professorial Research Associate
Agricultural development and poverty reduction
- Tel: 01233 713172
- Email: ph25@soas.ac.uk
Rebecca Kent
Senior Teaching Fellow
Land degradation, agricultural research, and food security
- Tel: 020 3073 8331
- Email: rk21@soas.ac.uk
- Room: LIDC 205
Elisa Cavatorta
Post-Doctoral Fellow on Economics of Food, Health and Agriculture
- Email: ec21@soas.ac.uk
- Room: LIDC 405
Jeff Waage, OBE
Member, Centre for Development, Environment and Policy
Food Policy. Farmer participatory research, biological alternatives to pesticides, biosecurity and management of invasive species affecting agriculture and the environment

