Ideas to Action:

Independent research for global prosperity

Andy Sumner

Visiting Fellow

Expertise:

global poverty, economic development and inequality with reference to middle-income countries and emerging economies

Education:

MSc, PhD, London SB University

Andy Sumner is a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development. He is co-director of the King’s International Development Institute at King’s College London, a new institute focused on the emerging economies.

Sumner is an interdisciplinary development economist with research interests in the fields of global poverty, economic development, and inequality with reference to middle-income countries and emerging economies. His primary regional focus is Southeast Asia, Indonesia in particular.

Before taking his position at King’s college, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He holds associate positions at SOAS, Oxford University, and the New School for Social Research in New York.

He is a vice president of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes and a council member of the Development Studies Association.

In 2011 he was listed in Foreign Policy’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
His recent work on the new bottom billion in middle-income countries has been covered recently by the Economist and Voice of America.

You can follow him on Twitter @andypsumner