Katherine Brickell

Katherine is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. From January 2023 she will be Professor in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. For two decades her research in Cambodia has focused on gendered experiences of precarious home and working lives, including domestic violence, forced eviction, debt bondage in the brickmaking industry, and most recently the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women garment workers. Katherine is Principal Investigator of the research study. She is also the author of Home SOS: Gender, Violence and Survival in Crisis Ordinary Cambodia (Wiley 2020) and co-editor of The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia (Routledge 2017). Follow on Twitter: @k_brickell

Sopheak Chann

Sopheak is a Lecturer at the Department of Natural Resource Management and Development, Royal University of Phnom Penh. He completed a Master’s degree and PhD in geography from the University of Sydney and an under- graduate degree in Environmental Management at Royal University of Phnom Penh. His research interests include the political ecology of resource frontiers, critical cartog- raphy socio-environmental relations, and climate change. From August 2022, he will undertake a research fellowship at James Madison College, Michigan State University.

Isabelle Guérin

Isabelle is a socioeconomist, Senior Research Fellow at the French Institute of Research for Sustainable Development (IRD), associate at the French Institute of Pondicherry. In 2019-2020, she was a member of the Institute of Advanced Study (Princeton). She specializes in the role of debt and credit in the dynamics of poverty and inequality. Her current work focuses on the key but invisible role of women’s debt in present-day financial capitalism. Her work draws most often from her own field-based original data, combines ethnography and statistical analyses and is interdisciplinary and comparative in nature. Her work also includes a permanent thinking about the conditions of data production and the combination of methods. She publishes in journals of development studies, anthropology, political economy and geography. Some of her recent co-edited books include Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development: A Critical Perspective, Oxford University Press, 2020, with Florent Bédécarrats & François Roubaud), The Crises of Microcredit, Zedbook, 2015, with Marc Labie & Jean-Michel Servet. She co-directed the Indian chapter of the project with G. Venkatasubramanian and Nithya Joseph.

Vincent Guermond

Vincent is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of the geographies of debt, finance and market making, migration and development, climate adaptation, and social reproduction. He has published in leading academic journals in geography, development studies, and international political economy, including Progress in Human Geography, Geoforum, Environment and Planning A, Review in International Political Economy, World Development, and Development and Change. His new book Remittances and Financial Inclusion: Contested Geographies of Marketisation in Senegal and Ghana is forthcoming with Routledge. Follow on Twitter: @vincent_guermond

Dalia Iskander

Dalia is Head of Medical Anthropology and a Lecturer (Teaching) in Medical Anthropology at University College London. Her research focuses on malaria and infectious diseases in Southeast Asia and the UK, especially the effects of power, politics, inequality, and environmental-change on human-animal-plant-pathogen relations. She is interested in the methodological tools for capturing these relationships and has over a decade of experience working with visual participatory research methods, namely photovoice. She is author of The Power of Parasites: Malaria as (un)conscious strategy (Palgrave Macmillan 2021).

Nithya Natarajan

Nithya is a Lecturer in International Development at King’s College London. Her work focuses on South India and Cambodia, and explores agrarian change, rural-urban livelihoods, labour precarity, gender and debt. She completed an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded PhD at SOAS, University of London, and a postdoctoral research position at Royal Holloway as part of the ESRC-FCDO funded ‘Blood Bricks’ research project. Follow on Twitter: @nith1989

Laurie Parsons

Laurie is Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London and Principal Investigator of the projects The Disaster Trade: The Hidden Footprint of UK Imports and Investment Overseas and Hot Trends: How the Global Garment Industry Shapes Climate Vulnerability in Cambodia. A researcher of Cambodian livelihoods since 2008, his work explores the experience of climate change in the global economy, exposing the hidden environmental impacts of global production and unequal landscape of exposure to climate change impacts. Follow on Twitter: @lauriefdparsons

Fiorella Picchioni

Fio is a Senior Research Fellow in Gender and Diversity in Food Systems at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich. She is an applied development economist and her work is positioned at the intersection of food systems thinking, nutrition and agrarian change. Her research interests include social reproduction, the prevalence of industrial diets and their interconnections with nutrition and wellbeing in the Global South. She has published her work on World Development, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Food Security, Clinical Nutrition, Sustainability, Nature Research. Her work has featured in the Routledge Handbook on Sustainable Diets (2022). She is the co-chair of the Agriculture-Nutrition-Health working group on the Political Economy of Agri-Nutrition.

Giacomo Zanello

Giacomo is Associate Professor in Food Economics and Health at the University of Reading (UK). His main research has been concentrated on efforts to better understand how agriculture, food, nutrition, and health interact in low- and middle-income countries. He currently serves as a core member of the Independent Expert Group for the Global Nutrition Report. For more information: http://giacomozanello.com

Milford Bateman

Milford is a Visiting Professor of Economics at Juraj Dobrila at Pula University in Croatia, Adjunct Professor in Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada, Associate Researcher, FINDE, Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Honorary Research Associate, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His career to date has combined University-based teaching and research activities with policy consultancy and project design and evaluation assignments in the field for most of the major international development organisations. His main interests are in sustainable local economic devel- opment and social justice issues and he has published and advocated widely in these areas. His current project involves finalising a 2nd completely updated edition of his influential 2010 book ‘Why Doesn’t Microfinance Work? The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism’ which is due for release in early 2023 with Bloomsbury Publishing.