Research Advisory Group

Research Advisory Group Members

Field of specialization: institutional sector development for key sectors, urban development, land and housing, municipal institutions, livelihood issues and higher education

Region of specialization: India, South Asia

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Amlanjyoti Goswami

Head for Legal and Regulation, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), India

Also Associate Professor, Department of International development, University of Oxford, UK

Field of specialization: agriculture and gender

Region of specialization: Sub-Saharan Africa

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Cheryl Doss

Senior Departmental Lecturer in Development Economics, University of Oxford, UK

Field of specialization: behavioural economics, household finance and well-being, labor economics and the digital economy

Region of specialization: International

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Christos Makridis

Senior Adviser, Gallup

,Field of specialization: Land Administration, Region of specialization: Europe

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Chryssy Potsiou

Bureau member and Vice-chair of UNECE WPLA and Honorary FIG President

Field of specialization: governance of land resources, Economic Development, community development

Region of specialization: International

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Malcolm Childress

Executive Director, Global Land Alliance (GLA), USA

Field of specialization: Equity, Gender and Tenure research, social, economic and ecological effects of forest rights devolution; studies of the impacts of land rights formalization on agricultural investment and productivity

Region of specialization: international

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Steven Lawry

Senior Associate, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), USA

Field of specialization: Applied research on Economic Development, Public Economics; Political Economy

Region of specialization: International

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Tim Besley

Professor of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economics, London School of Economics (L

Observers/Partners

Field of specialization: Survey design, International Development, Well-being

Region of specialization: International

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Rajesh Srinivasan

Regional Research Director, Asia and MENA, Gallup Inc

Field of specialization: Financial instruments, Agricultural Development

Region of specialization: India, South Asia

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Susan Thomas

Assistant Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

Gender justice for climate justice: what does collective forest governance look like for Indigenous women?

16.11.2022

Achieving the twin goals of protecting the planet and improving humanity’s wellbeing relies on women having the agency and space to co-govern the natural resources they - and their families - depend on for their livelihoods. Reflecting on COP27’s Gender Day, we look at how better understanding women’s access to, use, and control of land, forests and natural resources in Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) could be utilised to support climate action.

Podcasts

Podcast: where do we land up on land tenure and land degradation?

14.6.2022

In the third episode of Land UP! - our joint podcast with Land Portal, we ask where do we land up on land tenure and land degradation?

Blogs

Seven takeaways from the 2022 Global Land Forum

9.6.2022

The Prindex team offer their thoughts on what the main takeaways were from the 2022 Global Land Forum in Jordan.