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 Brief Biography:
On the Columbia University 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.
Continue to full profile on the IDPM website.
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.
Professor Tony Addison
Professor Tony Addison - Associate Director
Tony Addison, Professor of Development Studies, was appointed to BWPI in August 2006. Tony was formerly the Deputy Director for the United Nations University WIDER (World Institute for Development Economics Research) based in Helsinki.
With more than twenty years of experience in working with governments in developing countries and with donor agencies (including DFID, ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank), Tony has designed and managed research projects on poverty and economic policy, the causes of conflict, post-conflict reconstruction, fiscal policy, and child labour. Tony is also Associate Director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre.
Professor Michael Woolcock - Associate Director
Michael Woolcock, Professor of Social Science and Development Policy, was appointed to BWPI in August 2006. Michael is a Senior Social Scientist with the Development Research Group at the World Bank, and from 2000 to 2006 was also a Part-time Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Michael's research focuses on the role of social and political institutions in shaping the survival and mobility strategies of the poor, and strategies for forging more constructive mechanisms for bridging different types of customary and formal legal systems.
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 organizations, 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.
Continue to full profile on the IDPM website.
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 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 Miguel Nino Zarazua, Research Fellow
Miguel Nino Zarazua joined BWPI as a Research Fellow in January 2009. He was awarded a PhD in Economics from the University of Sheffield with the thesis: 'the impact of microcredit on income poverty, labour and well-being. A quasi-experimental study in urban Mexico'.
Miguel's research interests are in the areas of poverty analysis; social protection and transfer programmes; microfinance and impact evaluation.
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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
Denise Redston - Senior Personal Assistant
Denise Redston provides administrative support to BWPI Executive Director, Professor David Hulme and BWPI Associate Director Professor Tony Addison .
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.
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