Steering Committee & Academic Board

Partner Universities

Prof. Dr. Fe­­ka­­du Bey­e­­ne

Haramaya University

Ethiopia

  • Dr. Mengistu Urge has worked for Haramaya University for over 30 years
  • Research interests: Animal Science fields, mainly focusing on Animal Nutrition and Stress Physiology

Prof. Dr. Praveen Jha

Ja­wa­har­l­al Neh­ru Uni­ver­si­ty

In­dia

  • Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic, Studies and Planning (CESP) and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies (CISLS), is with the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  • Research Focus: Political Economy of Development, with particular reference to Labour, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Public Finance, Education, and History of Economic Thought
  • Research Cluster: Cluster 2 - Partnership in the global economy (agriculture and finance)

Prof. Dr. Archana Prasad

Ja­wa­har­l­al Neh­ru Uni­ver­si­ty

In­dia

  • Professor at the Centre for Informal Sector & Labour Studies, School of Social Sciences

  • Research Focus: Contemporary history of adivasi livelihoods, labour and resistance, women and labour, environmental and labour history

Prof. Dr. Ju­li­us Kiiza

Makerere University

Uganda

Prof. Dr. Sal­ly Mat­t­hews

Rhodes University

South Africa

  • Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political and International Studies
  • Research Focus:  development (particularly post-development theory), the politics of NGO work, service-learning and community engagement, higher education transformation and decolonisation, and race and privilege. These seemingly eclectic research interests are loosely held together by a general preoccupation with the question of whether and how the relatively privileged can contribute to struggles for social justice.
  • Research Cluster: Partnership in knowledge production (Eurocentrism and alternative knowledge)

Dr. Syl­vest­re Ouédrao­go

Un­­i­­­ver­­­­­sité des Sci­en­ces Ap­p­­­li­quées du Dé­­­ve­­­lop­pe­­­ment

Bur­ki­­­na Fa­­­so

  • Pan-African Institute for Development West Africa and Sahel Region (IPD/AOS
  • Research Focus: Social and economic appropriation of new technologies for development; Social and solidarity economy, job creation potential for young people and levers of organic agriculture, Cooperative or cooperative-type organizations, common interest groupings, decentralized financial systems, village tontine, mutual health insurance companies
  • Research Cluster: Cluster 1 - Partnerships in development cooperation (access, empowerment and deeper participation)

Dr. Pier­re-Louis Odo­nel

Un­­i­­­ver­­­­­sité d'Etat Hai­­­ti

Haiti

  • Faculté d’Ethnologie
  • Research Focus: Social sciences, Political philosophy, Humanitarian, NGOs, International aid and assistance
  • Research Cluster: Cluster 1 - Partnership in development cooperation (accountability)

Prof. Dr. Jhon Picard Byron

Un­i­­ver­­­sité d'Etat Hai­­ti

Hai­­ti

  • Research Focus: Ethnology and history of political ideas

Prof. Dr. An­­ge­­la Akor­­su

University of Cape Coast

Ghana

  • Associate Professor and the Dean of the School for Development Studies
  • Research focus: informal economy organising, gender and rural women’s livelihoods, decent work along agricultural value chains

Prof. Dr Mehrdad Arabestani

University of Tehran

Iran

Dr. Pooya Ala­edi­ni

University of Tehran

Iran

  • Associate Professor, Department of Social Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Research focus: urban and regional planning, industrial development, social policy
  • Research Cluster: Cluster 1 - Partnership in development cooperation

Prof. Dr. Bam­moy Na­be

Universty of Kara

Togo

  • Professor, University of Kara

Dr. Patricia Marie Northover

University of West Indies

Jamaica

  • Senior research fellow at Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies
  • Research focus: Problems of racial power in development and freedom, and rurality and social changein modern world systems and Caribbean societies
  • Current research interests: The Moral Economy of Markets and Debt; Food insecurity and the Political Economy of Food Systems; Globalization, Agrarian Change and Rural Futures; Climate Change, vulnerability and ‘rural resilience’ in small island states; Caribbean Poiesis and Africana Critical Theory; Economic Philosophy and Growth Theory; Decolonial Theory, Praxis and Poethics
  • Research cluster: Cluster 2 - Partnership in the global economy (agriculture, finance and energy), Cluster 3 - Partnership in knowledge production (Eurocentrism and alternative knowledge)

Prof. Dr. De­van Pil­lay

University of Witwatersrand

South Africa

  • Professor, Wits Department of Sociology - Globalization and Labour Relations in the Global South 
  • Research Focus: Labour, Ecological Marxism and Happiness/Wellbeing/Ecosocialism Studies
  • Research Cluster: Cluster 3 - Partnership in knowledge production (alternative knowledge)

Prof. Dr. Vish­was Sat­gar

University of Witwatersrand

South Africa

  • Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, editor of the Democratic Marxism Series, principal investigator for the Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene project
  • Research Focus: Civilisational Crisis, Empire, African political economy, South African International Relations, Transnational Systemic Alternatives and Emancipatory Futures

Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai

University of Kassel

Germany


Partner Organizations

Sandeep Chachra

ActionAid

India

  • A social anthropologist by training and a development activist who has lived and worked with indigenous people and Dalit communities in India.
  • He is currently the Executive Director of ActionAid Association.
  • Projects Coordinator at ActionAid International Uganda

Miphal Ousmane Lankoande

Balai Citoyen

Burkina Faso

  • Executive secretary of the civil society movement Balai Citoyen and a sociologist

Ingrid Parchment

Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation

Jamaica

  • Executive Director at Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation

Fitzroy Floyd

Catherine Hall Community Development Committee

Jamaica

Ma­ko­ma Le­ka­laka­la

Earthlife Africa

South Africa

  • Director of Earthlife Africa Johannesburg
  • A dual Recipient of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize

Dieyna­ba Sa­gnan

Enda Graf Sahel

Senegal

Ma­ma­dou Ko­bar

Enda Graf Sahel

Senegal


Taye En­da­shaw Ge­bre­wold

Hararghe Catholic Secretartiat

Ethiopia

Raoul Vital

In­sti­tut Cul­tu­rel Karl Lé­vêque

Haiti

Ké­pler Au­ré­li­en

Institut Culturel Karl Lévêque

Haiti


Tamisha Lee

Jamaica Network of Rural Women Producers

Jamaica

  • President of Jamaica Network of Rural Women Producers and a member of the World Farmers Organization - Women Committee

Ashish Kothari

Environment Action Group

India

  • One of the founders of Kalpavriksh, an Indian environmental NGO
  • Coordinate Kalpavriksh's programme on Alternatives

Sujatha Padmanabhan

Environment Action Group

India

  • A member of Kalpavriksh since 1984
  • She is a trained special educator and has worked with children with multiple disabilities in Delhi for 10 years. Her main engagement at Kalpavriksh has been in the field of environment education for children.

Milind Wani

Environment Action Group

India

  • Program coordinator for Kalpavriksh’s Documentation and Outreach center, and edits its newsletter entitled People in Conservation

Anne Jung

Medico International

Germany

  • Head of the public relations department at medico international
  • Research areas: global health and compensation debates, international trade relations and raw materials

Fabian Scholtes

Misereor e.V.

Germany

  • Currently works at the Policy and Global Challenges department of MISEREOR, the German Catholic Bishops’ Organization for Development Cooperation
  • His focus is on the translation of critical, alternative concepts of economy and well-being into more aggregate, practical or political means of organizing an economy, such as policy and regulation, models of business and taxation, or the like

Tetteh Hor­me­ku

Third World Network Africa

Ghana

  • Head of Programmes at Third World Network-Africa
  • Over 20 years of experience in international economic and trade policy, law, negotiations and advocacy; multilateral, regional and bilateral

David Soutar

SlashRoots Foundation

Jamaica

  • Co-founder and Principal of the Slashroots Foundation supporting strategy, research, and implementation

Dr. Ous­ma­ne Pa­me

Réseau pour l'Émergence et le Développement des Ecovillages au Sahel - REDES

Senegal

  • Founder and President of REDES