Naysan Adlparvar recently completed his PhD at IDS investigating ethnic and sectarian identity in relation to conflict and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. He has also published research investigating the gendered impacts of microfinance programming. Before commencing his PhD, he worked in Afghanistan with local and international non governmental organisations (NGOs), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Afghanistan. His current research interests include the changing nature of identity and intergroup relations in Afghanistan, and communitydriven peace-building and its contribution to social cohesion. He presently works with UNDP in Iraq on community-focused poverty reduction and private sector development initiatives.
Alia Aghajanian is a PhD student at IDS. Her thesis considers the consequences of returning home after conflict-induced displacement, specifically looking at social capital, labour market outcomes and household welfare. While at IDS, Alia was also an early stage Research Fellow with the Marie Curie Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC), funded by the European Commission. This research included primary data collection using household surveys in Maharashtra, India, Lebanon and Ghana (where she worked with the Ghana Statistical Office). Alia has also just joined Oxford Policy Management as a consultant with the Official Statistics Portfolio.
Jeremy Allouche is a Research Fellow at IDS, co-leading the Resource Politics Cluster, and the IDS PhD convenor. He is a member of the Sussex Centre for Conflict and Security Research. He previously worked at the University of Oxford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Swiss Graduate Institute of Public Administration and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. His fields of interest are the intersection between global environmental change, security and development. He is currently leading two major projects: Large Development Investment and Local Peacebuilding in Rural Africa, and a STEPS Centre project on the water–energy–food nexus.
Stephen Devereux has been a researcher at IDS since 1996. He worked initially on food security in Africa and the analysis of famines. Since the early 2000s his work has focused increasingly on social protection – conceptual frameworks, policy formulation, design choices, programme evaluations, teaching and training. He was a founding director of the Centre for Social Protection (2005). He co-edited the IDS Bulletin's 40th Anniversary special issue: 'Challenging Orthodoxies, Influencing Debates' (37.4, 2006, http://bulletin.ids.ac.uk/idsbo/issue/view/66). He holds a UK–South Africa Bilateral Research Chair in 'Social Protection for Food Security', the Centre of Excellence in Food Security, University of the Western Cape.
Jenny Edwards is Programme Officer for the Pathways of Women's Empowerment programme at IDS. She studied Cultures and Communities at the University of Sussex and her dissertation was on the politics of step mothering as portrayed in children's literature. With Andrea Cornwall, she co-edited Feminisms, Empowerment and Development: Changing Women's Lives (Zed Books, 2014) and two issues of the IDS Bulletin: 'Beijing+20: Where now for Gender Equality?' (46.4, 2015, http://bulletin.ids.ac.uk/idsbo/issue/view/15) and 'Negotiating Empowerment' (41.2, 2010, http://bulletin.ids.ac.uk/idsbo/issue/view/44).
Hadeer Elshafie is a PhD researcher at IDS who is studying the dynamics of citizen environmental action in both urban and online spaces. Hadeer's earlier research looked at the dynamics governing common-pool resource management in developing countries, with a focus on inland fisheries. Prior to joining IDS, Hadeer attained her BA in political economy and MA in professional development from the American University in Cairo.
John Gaventa is Director of Research at IDS, and has been a Research Fellow since 1996. He is currently linked to the Power and Popular Politics cluster and previously served as Director of the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability, based at IDS (2000–11), and of the former Participation team. He has worked as staff member and director of the Highlander Center in the United States (1976–94), as Director of the Coady International Institute at STFX University, Canada (2011–14) and as Chair of Oxfam Great Britain (2006–11). He has written widely on issues of power and participation.
Rachel Godfrey-Wood has degrees from the London School of Economics (BA History) and the Institute for the Study of the Americas (MSc in Globalisation and Latin American Development). She is currently completing a PhD on the impacts of social protection on older persons' wellbeing in rural Bolivia, and she is also interested in the interplay between climate change adaptation and social protection. Rachel also works on a number of other issues as a consultant for the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).
Martin Greeley is a Fellow at IDS, working on poverty and public policy. He is a development economist with nearly 40 years' experience including ten years of long-term overseas research (India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh). He specialises in rural issues and has led
several major research projects on agricultural technology choices and their output and employment consequences. Martin has taught graduate programmes at the University of Sussex on agriculture and development theory and has led Study Seminars in sub-Saharan Africa on structural adjustment. He has worked He has worked with the World Bank, several
UN agencies and many bilateral donors.
Jaideep Gupte is a Research Fellow and co-leader of the Cities cluster, IDS, where his research is on urban violence, poverty and development. He was formerly a Research Fellow at the Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai. Other research interests and expertise include micro level politics and economics of slum resettlement, informal justice/ security in informal settlements, and using GIS/GPS-aided mobile data collection platforms for spatial research. Jaideep's training is in politics (DPhil, University of Oxford), development studies (MPhil, University of Sussex) and economics (BA Hons, Simon Fraser University).
Richard Jolly is Honorary Professor and Research Associate of IDS, where he was director in the 1970s. He has been a Trustee of OXFAM, a Council member of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and Chairman of the UN Association of the United Kingdom and President of the British Association of Former UN Civil Servants. From 1982 to 1996, Richard Jolly was an Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, serving as deputy executive director responsible for UNICEF's programmes worldwide. He was then until 2000 senior adviser to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and coordinator of the widely-acclaimed Human Development Report. After leaving the UN he was co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project overseeing a multi-volume history of the UN's contributions to economic and social ideas and policy. He was a co-author of several of the volumes and senior author of the final volume, UN Ideas That Changed the World. In 2014 he published a book on UNICEF: Global Governance that Works. He was knighted by the Queen in 2001 for his services to international development.
Tamahi Kato has been working as a researcher and practitioner in human development, peace-building and poverty reduction. She has worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report Office, the UN Mission in Guatemala and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI)/Chronic Poverty Research Centre, where she did a country study review on chronic poverty in Tanzania. Tamahi's PhD research analyses the impact of agricultural input subsidy programmes in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on a case study of Ruvuma Region, Tanzania. Tamahi analysed the impacts on maize yields and poverty, and looked specifically at the aim, design and implementation of the programme as a cause of the impacts.
Hani Morsi is a post-doctoral researcher at the Access to Knowledge forDevelopment Center, American University in Cairo, where he is workingon a critical investigation of conceptual notions of openness. Hani isspecifically interested in the factors that enable individuals and communities to capitalise on increasingly open learning and knowledge co-constructionopportunities. Previously, Hani was a PhD candidate working withinthe Power and Popular Politics and Digital Development clusters, IDSwhere his thesis looked at the implications of emerging information and communications technologies on collective action and political activism inrestrictive environments, with extensive fieldwork conducted in Egypt.
Lars Otto Naess is a Research Fellow at IDS. He is a social scientistand has worked on climate change, development and agriculture overthe past 20 years. His current research interests are the political andinstitutional dimensions of climate change and development, the role of local knowledge for adaptation to climate change, and adaptationplanning in the context of international development cooperation.Previous affiliations include the Center for International Climate andEnvironmental Research–Oslo (CICERO), the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, and the UNFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed is a Research Fellow in the Cities cluster,IDS. She is a human geographer by training with extensive experience in gender and urbanisation, with a particular focus on West African cities. She currently works on issues related to women's economic empowerment and women's rights.
Alison Norwood is Publishing Manager at IDS, and Editorial Coordinator of the IDS Bulletin. She focuses on academic publications, working on both editorial production and advising on wider publishing matters through writing and disseminating in-house guidelines. A key part of Alison's work is the evolving landscape into digital publishing and the increasing adoption of Open Access. Her current interests are maintaining the quality and scale of the existing IDS publishing programme while researching implications for the institutional Open Access policy on outputs. Alison works closely with the IDS Bulletin's Editorial Steering Group, and has considerable publishing experience with commercial publishers prior to joining IDS.
Maro Pantazidou works on the intersections of human rights, politics and learning. She is the Lead Adviser for Organisational Learning and Accountability with Amnesty International. Previously, she has worked with both grass-roots and international organisations to introduce reflective practice and power analysis into their strategy and practice. She is interested in emerging forms of citizen organisation and action and the implications for civil society and human rights work, and has taken part as a researcher or facilitator in a number of related research projects including with IDS, Hivos and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Ricardo Santos is a Research Fellow at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and visiting researcher at the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNIC), National University of Timor-Leste (UNTL) in Timor-Leste. He holds a PhD in economics from IDS, a master's in economics from Nova University, Lisbon and an MA in development studies from IDS. He also has practitioner experience in international development, as Country Manager (Timor-Leste and Angola) and Deputy Executive Officer at a Portuguese volunteering INGO, Leigos para o Desenvolvimento.
Ana Solórzano holds a PhD from IDS, where she researched the linkages between social protection and climate change resilience using as a case study the Oportunidades programme, Mexico. She has conducted extensive research and has engaged in work on poverty and vulnerability, social protection, climate shocks, climate change adaptation and resilience for more than eight years, including practical and research work in governmental agencies in Mexico (Ministry of Social Development and the National Population Council), as well as consultancy work with the Department for International Development (DFID), the UN and the Inter-American Development Bank. Ana is a consultant at Oxford Policy Management.
Mariz Tadros is the co-leader of the Power and Popular Politics cluster, IDS. Her most recent monograph is Resistance, Revolt and Gender Justice in Egypt (Syracuse University Press, 2016). She is the editor of Women in Politics, Gender Power and Development (Zed Books, 2014), author of The Muslim Brotherhood in Contemporary Egypt: Democracy Redefined or Confined? (Routledge Press, 2012), author of Copts at the Crossroads (American University in Cairo Press, 2012) and editor of three issues of the IDS Bulletin: 'The Pulse of Egypt's Revolt' (43.1, 2012, http://bulletin.ids.ac.uk/idsbo/issue/view/33); 'Religion, Rights and Gender at the Crossroads' (42.1, 2011, http://bulletin.ids.ac.uk/idsbo/issue/view/39); and 'Quotas: Add Women and Stir?' with A.A. Alcântara Costa (41.5, 2010, http://bulletin.ids.ac.uk/idsbo/issue/view/41).