Jean Pierre Olivier de Sardan is Professor of Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Over the past 25 years his research in Niger, West Africa has made a major contribution to the anthropology of international development and 'post-development theory'. This interview...

Louise Chappell is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences and a Member of the Australian Human Rights Centre, University of New South Wales, where she is currently writing about gender justice and the International Criminal Court. This Global Conversation explores the role of women’s...

Duncan Green is a Senior Strategy Advisor for Oxfam UK and author of From Poverty to Power. This Global Conversation asks how social or political activists become international development professionals and how they keep their moral compass.