Andy Sumner is Professor of International Development at King’s College London and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development.
He is also President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts, and a Senior Non-Resident Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He holds additional research affiliations with the University of Oxford and Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia.
At King’s College, he co-founded and led the International Development Institute, which became the Department of International Development, and was Director of the Global Poverty and Inequality Dynamics Network—a collaboration among universities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
His research focuses on questions of global inequality, economic development, and development cooperation. He has published fifteen books and over 100 papers, and has been listed among Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers and Huffington Post’s Top 100 Influential Voices.
His current interests are making sense of contemporary global disorder and its consequences for global inequality.
