UNU-WIDER Jo Beall

Professor Beall is a specialist on urban development and urban governance, with expertise on state fragility and international development policy. Other interests include gender, social exclusion and local responses to crisis and conflict. She is currently engaged in research on cities and conflict in fragile sates and has extensive research experience in South Africa and South and West Asia. She has advised and consulted for a range of international development agencies, national governments and non-governmental organisations