GPN Academics


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

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)

  • 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

Ma­ke­­re­­re Un­i­­ver­­­si­­ty (Ugan­­da)


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)

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)

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)

  • Research Focus: Ethnology and history of political ideas

Un­i­­ver­­­sité Vir­­tu­el­­le Se­­ne­gal (Se­­ne­gal)

Prof. Dr. Ab­doul Al­pha Dia

  • Research Focus: education economics, development economics, school future, entrepreneurship, inequality
  • Research Cluster: Cluster 1 - Partnerships in development cooperation (access, accountability, and deep participation); Cluster 3 - Partnership in knowledge production (Eurocentrism)

Prof. Dr. Mamadou Vieux Lamine Sa­né

  • Prof. Sané is a teacher-researcher in education sciences at the UVS; expert in results-based management in education, specialist in pedagogy, education theories, management and governance of education systems, research methodology in education sciences, research and intervention experiences in education
  • Research focus: School improvement practices and processes, Education planning (quality aspects), Policies and frameworks for the obligation to perform (accountability), Basic education in developing countries, including North-South relations, Comparative study of primary and secondary education training systems and practices and teacher management
  • Research Cluster: Cluster 1 - Partnerships in development cooperation (access, accountability, deep participation); Cluster 3 - Partnership in knowledge production (Eurocentrism and alternative knowledge)

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

  • Associate Professor at the Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies (University of Cape Coast), Associate fellow of the Global Labour University and a member of the Steering Committee of NETRIGHT, the women’s rights organization in Ghana.
  • Research focus: She has researched and published in the area of gender and labour relations and is currently researching comparing the postcolonial development strategies of Ghana and Tanzania

University of Tehran (Iran)

  • Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran
  • Research focus: Social Policy, Social Pension, Labor & Employment Policy, Social Right
  • 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


Un­i­­ver­­­si­­té de Ka­­ra (To­go)


University of the 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)

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)

  • 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

  • Associate professor in the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa
  • Research Focus: political sociology, development, ecological issues, transformative politics and the solidarity economy, India, and South Africa

University of South Africa (South Africa)

  • Professor in Peace and Development Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa
  • Research focus: African-Chinese relations, African politics, Development Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies, Feminist international relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Security Studies
  • Research Cluster: Cluster 1 - Partnership in development cooperation (access, accountability and deep participation)

University of Gießen (Germany)

  • Chair of Business Administration in the Food Economy and Agribusiness

University of Hamburg (Germany)


University of Kassel (Germany)

  • Scientific Staff of Fachgebiet OPATS (Or­ga­­nic Plant Pro­­­duc­­ti­on and Agro­e­co­­sys­­tems Re­­se­­arch in the Tro­pics and Sub­­­tro­pics)
  • Lecturer at the Department of Political Science
  • Banse’s research focuses on intersection of international and intersocietal relations, International Political Economy and development studies. In particular, she is interested in international trade and development policies, as well as international trade unions and labour rights. The regional focus of her work is (West-)Africa, with a specific focus on the EU/German – Africa relations.
  • Research Cluster: Cluster 2 - Partnership in the global economy (agriculture, finance and energy)


  • Head of the section Modern and Contemporary History, Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Research Cluster: Cluster 1 - Partnership in development cooperation (access, accountability, and deep participation); Cluster 3 - Partnership in knowledge production (Eurocentrism and alternative knowledge)




  • Lecturer and Research Associate - International agricultural policy and environmental governance
  • Research Focus: International political economy and governance of social-ecological transformations of agriculture and food systems, land grabbing, international and transnational cooperation in agriculture, bioenergy and other land-based climate change politics
  • Research Cluster: Cluster 1 - Partnership in development cooperation (access, accountability, and deep participation); Cluster 2 - Partnership in the global economy (agriculture, finance, and energy); Cluster 3 - Partnership in knowledge production (alternative knowledge)

  • Faculty of Economics and Management, Insitute of Management and Business Studies (IBWL), Section Sustainability Management
  • Research Focus: humane work, models of sustainable management at the Base of the Pyramid, sustainable Value Chains - Sustainable Supply Chain Management, diffusion of sustainability and sustainability in humanitarian aid operations
  • Research Cluster: Cluster 2 - Partnership in the global economy (agriculture, finance, and energy)






  • Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences , Section Global Political Economy
  • Research Focus: Political Economy of Development, Foreign Aid Policies, Development Cooperation
  • Research Cluster: Cluster 2 - Partnership in the global economy