Department of Economics
Professor John Sender
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- Department of Economics Emeritus Professor of Economics
- Department
- Department of Economics
- Qualifications
- MA (Oxon), MSc, Ph.D (London)
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Email address
- js9@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Professor John Sender is an emeritus professor at the Department of Economics of SOAS.
He has been Head of the Economics Department and Member of the Governing Body, SOAS, (1996-1998).
Lectured at the Universities of Dar es Salaam, Edinburgh and Cambridge. Appointments have included: Director of the African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge; Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand; Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the African Studies Centre, Leiden (2003-5); Economic advisor in the Offices of the President of South Africa and the Prime Minister of Ethiopia.
Research interests
Rural Development, Labour Markets, Industrialisation, Africa and Asia.
