Dan Banik | Chair
Dan Banik is professor of political science and director of the Oslo SDG Initiative at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. He is also Affiliate Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria. Prof. Banik was a Visiting Professor and Consulting Scholar at Stanford University (2010-2017) and a Visiting Professor at China Agricultural University (2012-2017). He is the host of the In Pursuit of Development podcast.
Matthias Vom Hau | Presenter
Matthias Vom Hau's research is centrally concerned with the relationship between identity politics, institutions, and development, with a comparative-historical focus on Latin America. He has published widely on how states construct a sense of national belonging, how civil society actors negotiate and contest official nationalisms, and the extent to which ordinary citizens subscribe to official and counter-state identity projects.
A second line of research explores the rise and consequences of indigenous movements in Latin America and beyond, while his third line of work corrects for the fundamentally ahistorical approach that underpins the supposedly negative relationship between ethnic diversity and public goods provision.
Leander Heldring | Presenter
Leander Heldring joined the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 2020 after receiving his PhD in economics from the University of Oxford.
His research interests are in economic development, political economy and economic history, with a particular focus on the role of government in facilitating or stifling innovation, entrepreneurship and growth.
Oliver Morrissey | Presenter
Oliver Morrissey is Professor in Development Economics and Director of CREDIT, School of Economics, University of Nottingham.
He is a Managing Co-Editor of the Journal of Development Studies (since 2006) and a Resource Person for the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) since 2006. He has published widely on aid policy (especially fiscal effects and conditionality), trade policy reform, taxation and agricultural production, with a focus on Africa.
Rachel Gisselquist | Discussant
Rachel M. Gisselquist is a political scientist with two decades of experience in academia, applied policy research, and international research management. Her projects and publications deal with inequality and inclusion, ethnic and identity politics, the state and state-building, and development cooperation, governance, and democracy, with particular attention to sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow with UNU-WIDER.
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