Mark Duffield

Mark Duffield is professor of Development Politics at the University of Bristol and director of the Global Insecurities Centre. He has taught at the universities of Khartoum, Aston and Birmingham and held fellowships and chairs at Sussex, Leeds and Lancaster. Mark is currently a member of the Scientific Board of the Flemish Peace Institute, Brussels, and a fellow of the Rift Valley Institute, London and Nairobi. Outside academia, during the 1980s, he was Oxfam's country representative in Sudan. Professor Duffield has advised government departments including DFID, the EU (ECHO), the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), as well as NGOs such as CAFOD, International Alert, Comic Relief and Oxfam, and UN agencies such as UNICEF, UNOCHA, UNDP and UNHCR. His books include Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security (2001) and Development, Security and Unending War: Governing the World of People (2007).