Academic staff
Our team is dedicated to challenging current paradigms of short-termism, and realising pathways towards sustainable and inclusive prosperity through collaborative, cross-disciplinary research.
Academic Staff (PhD supervisors)
Associate Professor
Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity
Senior Teaching Fellow
Professor of Natural Prosperity, Sustainable Development and Knowledge Systems
Co-Programme Lead for MSc Prosperity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Teaching Staff
Research Staff
Executive Lead, Prosperity Co-Lab UK (PROCOL UK) and Principal Research Fellow
Research Associate (TAKHAYYUL)
Marie Curie Fellow
Dr Erol Saglam is an Associate Professor of social anthropology, working on the intersections of masculinities, the state, and political imagination throughout the last decade. Saglam's two-year long project attends to the political reverberations of conspiracy theories among professional, educated, and well-off men in contemporary Europe.
Honorary Staff
Honorary Lecturer
Noreena Hertz is a renowned thought leader with an impressive track record in predicting global trends. Her best-selling books, The Silent Takeover, IOU: The Debt Threat and Eyes Wide Open, are published in 23 countries. She advises a select group of the world's leading business and political figures on strategy, economic and geo-political risk, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, millennials and post-millennials, and sits on the board of Warner Music Group. Previously, Noreena served on Citigroup's Politics and Economics Global Advisory Board and RWE's Digital Transformation Board.
Honorary Lecturer
Solveiga is an inventor and entrepreneur with an industrial design background. She invented Mimica Touch, a patented temperature sensitive accurate food freshness indicator that reduces food waste and improves food safety. Solveiga is the Founder & Director of Mimica and was named MIT Technology Review's Inventor of the Year. She also is a founding board member of Fast Forward 2030 and consults on innovation projects for leading consumer and technology companies.
Honorary Associate Professor
Dr Davies' research explores issues around prosperity, society and the environment. He is especially interested in the management of landscapes, ecological diversity, climate, and questions of sustainability, resilience and regeneration. Most of his work has focussed on agricultural systems in Eastern Africa and has examined community practice and knowledge both historically and anthropologically, often employing a perspective known as historical ecology. This has involved analyses of the spatial, material and temporal dynamics of farming systems, including understandings of soils, crops, irrigation, exchange networks and forests/vegetation. Dr Davies has also explored histories of failed external 'development' and his work is increasingly drawn towards wider analyses of food systems, agro-ecology, food sovereignity, farmer innovation and intersections with nutrition and health. His work often employs practices of physically mapping the landscape and he works closely with local Citizen Scientists within a trans-disciplinary framework. Much of this work aims to facilitate processes of co-design to reshape practice and policy.
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
George has completed a PhD in Economics and his research focuses on topics of applied political economy, institutions and development. He studies trust, corruption, legacies of violence and migration.
Honorary Professor of Practice
William Hynes is Co-ordinator of New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) in the Office of the Chief Economist at OECD which provides a space to question traditional economic ideas and offer new economic narratives, new tools, methods and policy approaches. He has led the NAEC work since 2016.
He previously worked as a Senior Advisor to the Secretary General, Advisor in the Sherpa and Global Governance Unit, Senior Economist in the Office of the Secretary General, Economist in the Development Co-operation Directorate and an Economic Affairs Officer in the Office of the Deputy Director General at the World Trade Organisation.
William is an Associate Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and an Applied Complexity Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He has a doctorate from Oxford University and was a Marie Curie Fellow at the London School of Economics.
Visiting Professor
Honorary Associate Professor
Debananda (Deb) is interested in questions related to the organisation, management and governance of universities and the role of higher education in generating public outcomes. More broadly, he examines how knowledge production, dissemination and flows, as carried out by universities, startups, and organizational innovation units, can tackle public challenges and generate public value. He examines policies, systems, organizations, and structures related to knowledge and their effects on innovation and entrepreneurship, and professional work.
Deb is a full-time faculty member at the School of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is an affiliate member of the Centre for Innovation Research (CIRCLE) at Lund University, Sweden, and is the Associate Editor of the Higher Education Quarterly journal. More about him at https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/deb/
Honorary Professor
Dr Albert Bressand is Professor (emeritus) in energy and international governance.
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