Professor, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

Professor Emma Mawdsley is in the Department of Geography at Cambridge University. She specialises in global development politics, with particular interests in UK development policy, South-South Cooperation, India, and finance and financialisation in development. She was the lead on a substantial DFID (later FCDO) project on India-UK development partnerships in third countries; and she is currently leading a large ESRC-funded project looking at the evolving roles of for-profit contractors and consultants in the development sector. Emma is also the Director of the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies, based in Newnham College, which supports researchers working in economic and social development, and international relations. She is an Editorial Board member of the Chatham House journal, International Affairs, and has served on the Council of the Royal Geographical Society. She is currently a Council Member of the UK’s Development Studies Association.