Staff
Professor Joseph E Stiglitz
Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz was appointed by The University of Manchester to chair the Brooks World Poverty Institute in November 2005.
Professor Stiglitz was Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000 and was also Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Clinton White House.
He is widely known for his critical stance on the privatization and liberalization policies pushed by the World Bank and the IMF, which led him to step down from his position in the World Bank in 2000.
In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information.
Read Professor Stiglitz's short biography:
on the Columbia University website
on the Nobel Prize website
Professor David Hulme - Executive Director
David Hulme is Professor in Development Studies at the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester and is Director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre. He was appointed to the role of BWPI Executive Director in April 2009.
His specific research interests include rural development policy and planning; poverty reduction strategies; finance for the poor; sociology of development; role of community organisations and NGOs; evaluation of technical assistance; environmental management; public sector reform.
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Professor Armando Barrientos - Research Director
Armando Barrientos joined BWPI as a Senior Research Fellow in August 2007 and was appointed to the role of BWPI Research Director in April 2009. . He was formerly a Research Fellow at Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and Senior Lecturer at Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester. Armando is also a Senior Researcher with the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, leading research on the Insecurity, Risk and Vulnerability research theme. His research interests focus on the linkages existing between social protection and labour markets in developing countries, and policies addressing poverty, vulnerability, and population ageing.
Dr Stephanie Ware Barrientos - Associate Director
Stephanie Barrientos has researched and published widely on gender, global production, employment, decent work, international labour standards, corporate social responsibility, fair trade, and ethical trade. She is the coordinator of the 'Capturing the Gains' research programme, which is based at BWPI and brings together a network of international researchers from institutions based in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US. The aim is to pursue academic and policy relevant research that informs and promotes economic and social upgrading – including fairer trade and decent work – for poorer producers and workers linked to global production networks and value chains. The programme aims to inform and support more effective strategies pursued by companies, civil society, government and international agencies. Funding for the network has been provided by DFID, ESRC, CPRC, SCI and SDC.
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Professor Anthony Bebbington - Associate Director
Anthony Bebbington is Professor of Nature, Society and Development in the School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, an ESRC Professorial Fellow, and Research Associate of the Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales, Peru. Previously he was Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado-Boulder and has been a Social Scientist with the World Bank. His work addresses the political ecology of rural change with a particular focus on social movements, indigenous organisations, livelihoods, extractive industries and socio-environmental conflicts (www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/andes). He has worked throughout South and Central America, though primarily in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.
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Dr Amanda Berlan - Research Fellow
Amanda Berlan has been a Research Fellow at the Brookes World Poverty Institute/Sustainable Consumption Institute since September 2009. She previously held a postdoctoral Fellowship at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford.
Amanda’s research interests include fair/ethical trade, corporate social responsibility, child labour, education and child rights, and other social issues in cocoa and other crops. She is currently working on a new project on agriculture in India.
Dr Admos Chimhowu
Dr Admos Chimhowu - Associate Director
Admos Chimhowu researches agrarian change and social transformation; and is interested in land reforms, poverty and livelihoods; migration, remittances and poverty; spatial inequality and regional development. He is the lead author of the report Moving Forward in Zimbabwe.
Dr David A Clark, Honorary Fellow
David Clark is Honorary Fellow and Research Associate at BWPI. He has strong links with IDPM (University of Manchester), Development Studies (University of Cambridge), the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (London School of Economics) and the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (University of Cape Town). His research interests include poverty, inequality and human development; the capability approach, social justice and well-being; adaptation vis-à-vis disadvantage; and political economy, methodology and philosophical issues in economics and development. His books include Visions of Development: A Study of Human Values (2002) and The Elgar Companion to Development Studies (2006; 2007). Dr Clark is currently book review editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.
Professor Maia Green
Professor Maia Green - Associate Director
Maia Green is Professor of Social Anthropology. Maia works on poverty, development and social institutions in East Africa. Her more recent work takes international development institutions and practices as its starting point to examine processes of social and institutional transformation in Tanzania around health services, development participation and governance. She is professionally engaged in the development sector, as a social development specialist and policy analyst working on issues around poverty, participation, public service reform, capacity building, civic engagement and social protection.
Dr Sam Hickey
Dr Sam Hickey - Associate Director
Sam Hickey carries out research on several issues related to the politics of development and poverty reduction. This includes theoretical and empirical work on issues of citizenship and participation, social movements and NGOs, social protection, the use of political analysis in international development, and the impact of the poverty agenda within international development
Professor Uma Kothari
Professor Uma Kothari - Associate Director
Uma Kothari's specific research interests include: history and theories of development; colonialism, postcolonialism and development; race and racism in development; social development; gender and development; migration, culture and identity; small island states.
Dr Diana Mitlin
Dr Diana Mitlin - Associate Director
Diana Mitlin's specific research interests include: urban community development, urban poverty, urban poverty reduction strategies, NGOs (management and organizational issues), civil society, participatory governance. Her major research issues are urban poverty and inequality; state and civil society; shelter policies;
grassroots organizations and community development; and
civil society and development.
Professor Kunal Sen
Professor Kunal Sen - Associate Director
Kunal Sen is Professor of Development Economics and Policy. His specific research interests include: macroeconomics, finance and international trade, and the measurement and analysis of poverty pertaining to developing countries. Some recent research has focused onthe relationship between state business relations and economic performance in India at macro, meso and micro levels; determinants of contract labour use in Indian manufacturing; and household income diversification in Tanzania.
Professor Rorden Wilkinson
Professor Rorden Wilkinson - Associate Director
Rorden Wilkinson is Professor of International Political Economy and Associate Director of BWPI. He is also a member of the Politics Discipline Area, School of Social Sciences and Head of the Centre for International Politics (CIP). Rorden joined the University of Manchester in 1997 and has held visiting posts at: the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; Department of Political Science, Wellesley College; the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University; and he was previously in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Auckland. He also co-edits the Global Institutions Series (with Thomas G. Weiss) for Routledge.
Dr Indranil Dutta, Lecturer In Development Economics
Indranil Dutta joined BWPI as a Lecturer In Development Economics in 2008, having previously been a research fellow at the World Institute of Development Economics Research.
Indranil's research lies in the area of quantitative development economics and applied welfare economics. Broadly, he is interested in understanding issues related to well-being, deprivation and distribution.
Dr Michael Edwards, Senior Visiting Fellow
Michael Edwards is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos, a Network for Ideas and Action, in New York, a Senior Visiting Scholar at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service, and a Senior Visiting Fellow at BWPI.
His work focuses on civil society, politics, social change and international cooperation, and he has published a number of books on these subjects.
Dr Matthias vom Hau - Lewis-Gluckman Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Matthias vom Hau joined BWPI as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in August 2007. He was awarded a PhD from Brown University in July 2007. The title of his thesis was 'Contested inclusion: A comparative study of nationalism in Mexico, Argentina and Peru'.
Matthias's research interests include the historical sociology of comparative development in Latin America and the role of social movements in poverty reduction.
Dr Solava Ibrahim
Dr Solava Ibrahim - Research Fellow
Solava Ibrahim joined BWPI as a Research Fellow in Global Poverty Reduction in June 2009. She holds a PhD. and MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge and an MA. and BA. in Political Science from the American University in Cairo. She has worked for the United Nations Development Program and consulted for the Arab Women Organization and Bibliotheca Alexandrina. She also taught political economy courses at the American University in Cairo and Arab Academy for Science and Technology. Ibrahim’s research is on the self-help initiatives of the poor. She emphasises the importance of these initiatives as a means of building and utilising the collective human capabilities of the poor, encouraging local grassroots development and nurturing the existing rich social capital in poor communities. Her publications include articles in the Journal of Human Development, Oxford Development Studies and Cairo Papers in Social Science. Her main research interests are poverty reduction, human development, governance, grassroots participation, community organizations, empowerment and agency, state-civil society relations, urban slums and gender.
Dr Miguel Nino Zarazua, Research Fellow
Miguel Nino Zarazua joined BWPI as a Research Fellow in January 2009. He is co-investigator of the cross-country research project: Social Transfers and Chronic Poverty: A Policy Analysis Research Project. Miguel holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Sheffield and an MSc in International Development from Bath University.
Miguel’s current research interests are in the areas of social protection; poverty dynamics; microfinance and applied econometrics.
Dr Vincent Pattison - Post-doctoral Lewis-Gluckman Research Fellow
Vincent Pattison joined BWPI as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in January 2008. His thesis was entitled 'The living wage and the working poor in Manchester’.
Vincent's research focuses on poverty in North West England; the cost of living of poor people in the UK and in Manchester.
Dr Dennis Rodgers - Senior Research Fellow
Dennis Rodgers joined BWPI in October 2007. Prior to joining the BWPI, he was lecturer at the London School of Economics, in development studies (2000-05), and urban development (2005-07).
His research interests include violence (in particular gangs), urban poverty, inequality, local politics, social movements, urban governance, and qualitative research methods, the social construction of development knowledge.
Dr Manoj Roy, Research Fellow
Manoj Roy joined BWPI as a research fellow in January 2009. He has degrees in Architecture and Infrastructure Planning and a PhD from the University of Manchester in Urban Planning.
Manoj's areas of research lie in climate change and urban poverty in Bangladesh.
Dr Stuart Rutherford, Honorary Senior Fellow
Stuart Rutherford is an independent practitioner, writer, researcher, teacher and consultant in financial services for the poor, especially in south and south-east Asia, who focuses on imagining and field-testing innovative financial services for the very poor.
As a practitioner he founded SafeSave, a microfinance institution (MFI) that pioneers ultra-flexible savings and loans services for the urban and rural poor in Bangladesh (safesave.org and ). He has been a Board Member of ASA, a large Bangladeshi MFI. See SafeSave and thepoorandtheirmoney.com
Dr James Scott - Research Fellow
James Scott joined BWPI as a Research Fellow in April 2009, having previously worked with BWPI in a number of areas. His main research focus is on trade and the interaction between developing countries and the world trade system.
James is also a research assistant for BWPI's Executive Director, David Hulme.
Dr Susan Steiner - Lewis-Gluckman Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Susan Steiner joined BWPI as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in October 2007. Susan is also Research Fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. She did her PhD on the implications of decentralisation on poverty in Uganda.
Susan's research interests include poverty and poverty reduction, microfinance, risk management strategies and decentralisation.
Clare Degenhardt - Editorial Administrator
Clare joined BWPI on a part-time basis in October 2008. She has extensive expertise in editing academic journals and supports the editorial and publications management processes.
Judith Gracey - Knowledge Manager
Judith Gracey joined BWPI in October 2007. This is a joint post between BWPI and the Chronic Poverty Research Centre. Judith is responsible for managing publication processes, including the provision of professional editorial services to BWPI, CPRC and their networks of University and international partners, associates and research centres.
Ros McDonnell - Institute Administrator
Ros McDonnell was appointed as the head administrator for BWPI in May 2006. Ros provides strategic advice together with management and administrative support to BWPI. She has day to day responsibility for human resource, financial, external relations and estates management. She also manages the administrative support team.
Laura Partridge - Project Administrator
Laura Partridge joined BWPI in December 2006. A key area of Laura's role is in the management of events including guest lectures and conferences; she is the primary contact for the Initiative for Policy Dialogue in the organisation of the annual Advanced Graduate Workshop.
Julie Rafferty - Research & Finance Administrator
Julie Rafferty joined BWPI in May 2009. This is a joint post between BWPI and the Chronic Poverty Research Centre. Julie's area of responsibilty is financial administration.
Denise Redston - Senior Personal Assistant
Denise Redston provides administrative support to BWPI Executive Director, Professor David Hulme and BWPI Associate Director Professor Tony Addison .
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