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

Blogs

Prindex at the 2022 Global Land Forum

11.5.2022

Blogs

Indigenous peoples and local communities can save our forests: but governments must put them on the map

25.3.2022

Protecting the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities can save our forests. This blog for International Day of Forests sets out how to combine knowledge and data to achieve progress at scale.

Blogs

Land rights can break the gender bias in climate action for the good of the planet

8.3.2022

Joseph Feyertag reflects on the latest IPCC climate impact report, arguing that climate action could set back gender equality - while stronger land rights could ensure the opposite happens