Development

Adebayo Olukoshi holds a first degree from Ahmadu Bello University and a doctorate from Leeds University. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Wits School of Governance, University of the Witswatersrand, South Africa. Adebayo has more than 35 years of experience in the area of international relations, governance and human rights, both in the academic sector and in intergovernmental institutions. Olukoshi was a member of the African Union Assessment Panel and Chair of the Board of several Think Tanks, including European Centre for Development Policy Management and Open Society Initiative for West Africa. He also previously served as Director of the UN African Institute for Economic Development and Planning, as Executive Director of the Africa Governance Institute, as Executive Secretary of the Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa, as Director of Research at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs; Senior Research Fellow/Research Programme Coordinator of the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, and Senior Programme Staff at the South Centre in Geneva, and Director for Africa and West Asia at International IDEA. His research centres on the interface of governance and development, a field on which he has published extensively. Professor Olukoshi is an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Associate of the Nordic Africa Institute.

Crystal Simeoni is a Pan-African feminist activist and Director of Nawi – the Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective (The Nawi Collective). She works at the intersection of the technical and the colloquial, of critique and imagination, of knowledge and practice, of language and of the creation of community. She curates the work of the Nawi collective who, in community with other African feminists and organizations, work on analyzing, influencing and reimagining macro level economic policies and narratives. Before Nawi, Crystal was head of Advocacy with a focus on Economic Justice at FEMNET, and the Policy Lead of the Tax and the International Financial Architecture at TJN-A before that. She is also currently an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity at the London School of Economics. In her understanding, in her critique and her imagining of a different way, her work is always at the service of life.

Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky is Senior Researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) at the National University of Río Negro (CIEDIS). He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Law and a PhD in Law. He defended the Argentine Republic in international arbitrations, participated in the nationalization of the national water supply company (AySA) and was its director representing the national state. He worked as Debt Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and was the Independent Expert on debt and human rights of the United Nations (UN). He has been a consultant for the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and human rights organizations. His research focus lies on the interlinks between finance and human rights.

Lyn Ossome is an Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. Previously, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) in Makerere University where she taught politics and political economy. She received her PhD in Political Studies from Wits University. Her specializations are in the fields of feminist political economy and feminist political theory, with particular research interests in land and agrarian studies, coloniality, and gendered postcolonial subjects of violence. She is the author of Gender, Ethnicity and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy: States of Violence (Lexington, 2018). She has been a visiting scholar at the National Chiao Tung University and at the University of the Witwatersrand, and Visiting Presidential Fellow at Yale University. She is Associate Editor of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy and an Editorial Committee member of the MISR Review. She has formerly served on the Scientific Committee of CODESRIA.

Mshaï Mwangola is an oraturist/performance scholar who uses the lens of culture in her work as an academic, artist and activist. She holds a doctorate in Performance Studies from Northwestern University (USA), a Master of Creative Arts from the University of Melbourne (Australia) and a Bachelor of Education from Kenyatta University. Her intellectual work is characterised by her practice of performance as a way of making meaning for the purpose of research, pedagogy and advocacy. An independent researcher, she is affiliated to the African Leadership Centre, Nairobi where she serves as a member of the adjunct faculty. She is also a founder-member of the intellectual platform, The Elephant. She previously worked with Aga Khan University as a member of the Academic Planning Team for the proposed Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Arusha). She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Council of the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), chairs the Board of Trustees of Uraia Trust, and serves as a member of the Board of Management of the P.J. Mwangola Secondary School. She previously chaired the Governing Council of the Kenya Cultural Centre and has also chaired the Kenya Culture Centre Act Review Taskforce. She is a member of the SID Governing Council 2023-2024, currently holding the position of Vice President.

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a Professor of International Affairs at The New School. Her teaching and research have focused on human rights and development, global health, and global goal setting and governance by indicators. From 1995 to 2004, she was lead author and director of the UNDP Human Development Reports. Her recent publications include: Millennium Development Goals: Ideas, Interests and Influence (Routledge 2017); Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights (with T. Lawson-Remer and S. Randolph, Oxford 2015), winner of the American Political Science Association’s 2016 Best Book in Human Rights Scholarship and the 2019 Grawemeyer Prize for Ideas to Improve the World Order. She contributes actively to international policy and research processes. She is Chair of the UN Committee on Development Policy, Chair of the Boards of Knowledge Ecology International, Co-Director of the Collective on the Political Determinants of Health at the University of Oslo, and Distinguished Fellow at the JICA Research Institute, Tokyo.

Sanjay G. Reddy is Professor and Chair of Economics at The New School for Social Research. He is an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Politics Department of the New School for Social Research. He teaches development economics, microeconomics, philosophy and economics, and other subjects. He has published widely in academic journals in economics and related subjects and given many prominent academic lectures. He was elected a Fellow of the Human Development and Capabilities Association. He was a lead author of the International Panel on Social Progress. He was a member of the Independent High-level Team of Advisers to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations on the longer-term positioning of the UN Development System. He has been a member of the advisory panel of the UN Development Programme's Human Development Report, the UN Statistics Division's Steering Committee on Poverty Statistics, the advisory board of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, and in other advisory functions for international and non-governmental organisations. He is a co-founder and team leader of the Global Consumption and Income Project. He has been quoted, his work has been cited, and his opinion articles have been published, by news media including Barron’s, the Boston Globe, the Boston Review, the Economist, Foreign Policy, the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Hindu, The Nation, the National Post, the New York Review of Books, and Project Syndicate. His work has been translated into multiple languages.

Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of the Erasmus University in The Hague. She has published widely in critical development studies and feminist theory as well as feminist political ecology and has engaged in different gender and development networks over the years, including as Chair of Network Women in Development Europe and as Coordinator of the EU funded Innovative Training Network Wellbeing Ecology Gender and cOmmunity. Wendy joined the ISS in November 2011 after 23 years at the Society for International Development, Rome as Editor of the journal Development and Director of Programmes. She has edited 12 books and her monograph: 'Body Politics in Development: Critical Debates in Gender and Development' published by Zed Books in 2009, received the 2010 Feminist Women Studies Association Book Prize. She is series editor of both the Palgrave Gender, Development and Social Change and the ISS-Routledge Series on Gender, Development and Sexuality, a member of the International Governing Council of the Society for International Development as well as actively involved in gender and development journal boards and civil society networks. Her latest open access books are Contours of Feminist Political Ecologies 2023 and Feminist Methodologies: Experiments, Collaborations and Reflections 2022.