Jörg Wiegratz

Lecturer in Political Economy of Global Development, University of Leeds
Jörg Wiegratz is Lecturer in Political Economy of Global Development at the University of Leeds, School of Politics and International Studies, and Senior Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg. His research focuses on neoliberal transformations including neoliberal moral change, as well as economic fraud and anti-fraud measures, particularly in Uganda and more recently Kenya too. He worked in Uganda 2004-7, first for the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and then as researcher/consultant with funding from Government of Uganda (then Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Industry), European Union, German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). He has been a Resource Person at Makerere University and a Visiting Scholar/Research Associate at the Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), Kampala. Before joining the University of Leeds in 2012 he taught at the Universities of Bath and Sheffield.

Jörg is briefings and debates editor of the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE), and co-edits roape.net. He has published monographs/collections (Uganda’s Human Resource Challenge: Training, Business Culture and Economic Development; Neoliberal Moral Economy: Capitalism, Socio-Cultural Change and Fraud in Uganda; Neoliberalism and the moral economy of fraud; Uganda: The dynamics of neoliberal transformation), journal articles (New Political Economy, Journal of Agrarian Change and ROAPE), and blog posts (Africa is a country/AIAC, Elephant, roape.net, Counterpunch, Truth out, Le Monde diplomatique, The Conversation, SPERI blog, Progress in Political Economy). He is founder and editor of the blog series Capitalism in Africa, and Economic trickery, fraud and crime in Africa (both run on roape.net), and, more recently, contributing editor to a blog and video project (coordinated by Mathare Social Justice Centre) on ‘Capitalism in my city’ (run on AIAC) and co-editor of a blog series on ‘Pressure in the city’ (developing economics.org). His current collaborative research project explores commercialisation of football in Kenya and Uganda.