Professor David Lewis

David Lewis is Professor of Anthropology and Development in the Department of International Development.

David's research interests lie at the interface between development studies and anthropology, and most of his work has been concerned with understanding people's encounters with development actors and development processes. He undertakes regular fieldwork in Bangladesh and has worked in Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Palestine and Uganda. He has a growing interest in the development humanities, including music, fiction and film, and is a Faculty Advisory Group member of the LSE South Asia Centre.

David's work has been published in a range of journals including World Development, Development and Change and Current Anthropology, and he is the author of several books, the latest of which is ‘New Mediums, Better Messages? How Innovations in Translation, Engagement, and Advocacy are Changing International Development’, co-edited with D. Rodgers and M Woolcock. He is currently working on a new book entitled How Policy Forgets (forthcoming). He has advised a range of development agencies including UNDP, IFAD, Oxfam, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the former UK Department for International Development (DFID).

Expertise

development ethnography; development policy; agrarian change; civil society and NGOs; South Asia; development and the humanities

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