Associate Professor, Global Development, University of East Anglia
Anna Macdonald is an associate professor in global development at the University of East Anglia and a senior visiting fellow at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the LSE. Anna is currently co-investigator on the ESRC-funded Centre for Public Authority and International Development (CPAID), which conducts interdisciplinary research to strengthen knowledge about how governance functions in impoverished and marginalised places across the world. She is co-editor of Humanitarianism: A Dictionary of Concepts (Routledge 2018) and her research has most recently been published in Africa, Development and Change, the International Journal of Transitional Justice, the Journal of Refugee Studies, African Affairs, and Law and Society Review.
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