Elliott Green is Professor in Development Studies in the Department of International Development at the LSE. He is currently a Co-Programme Director for the MSc Development Management and the convener of the MSc Course ‘Democracy and Development’ (DV464).

Elliott has three main research areas: 1) ethnic politics and national identity in Africa, 2) patronage, clientelism and African development, and 3) the political demography of modern Africa.  He has conducted fieldwork in Uganda, Tanzania and Botswana, and for several years taught a course entitled ‘Poverty and Development’ at the annual LSE-University of Cape Town Summer School. 

His first book, Industrialization and Assimilation: Explaining Ethnic Change in the Modern World, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.  His research has published in a variety of academic journals, including the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Modern African Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development and World Development, among others.  He currently sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Development Studies, Nations and Nationalism and Regional and Federal Studies, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.  He holds degrees from Princeton University (AB) and the LSE (MSc, PhD).