Short presentation

I am professor of Development, Resource Management, and Governance. I have a PhD in International Development Studies

Primary fields of research

I have experience in analysing local politics and the dynamics of property. I investigate how socio-legal conflicts over citizenship and land feed into state formation processes. Field experience: Niger, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Laos, and Indonesia. I directed the ProCit research project from 2012-16, and the ERC Advanced Grant project Rule and Rupture (2016-21). I am currently starting two larger projects, Conjuring Urban Legality (Project 2, funded by FSE (2023-27)), and Urban Frontiers. From Illegal Land Occupation to Legalized Property (my second ERC Advanced Grant (2024-29)). I have published 4 monographs, a baker’s dozen of edited books and journals, and around 40 peer-reviewed articles. My editorial skills have been honed by editing the European Journal of Development Research for 5 years. Citations: +4000, H-index 26 (Scopus), +10000, H-index 37 (Google Scholar).

I have supervised some 45 PhD students and Postdocs since 2000, at London School of Economics, and the universities of Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve, Uppsala, Washington, Zürich, Roskilde, and Copenhagen. I have research council experience as a member and chairman of the Social Science Research Council in Denmark, and as chairman of the Consultative Research Committee for Development Research, Denmark.

Current research

I am currently starting two larger projects, Conjuring Urban Legality (Project 2, funded by FSE (2023-27)), and Urban Frontiers. From Illegal Land Occupation to Legalized Property (my second ERC Advanced Grant (2024-29)).

https://urbanfrontiers.eu

Teaching

I am course responsible for the MSc course Global Politics. In addition, I contribute to Practicing Interdisciplinarity and Critical Development Studies.

Possible conflicts of interest

Since 2018, I have been on the board of the Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS. I receive a small honorarium.

CV

Main employments:

Professor in Development, Resource Management, and Governance, University of Copenhagen (Chair of GlobaDevelopment Section) (since 2012)

Professor, International Development Studies, Roskilde University (2004-12)

Director of the Graduate School of International Development Studies, Roskilde University (2003-11)

Associate Professor, International Development Studies, Roskilde University (1999-2004)

Research Fellow, International Development Studies, Roskilde University (1995-99)

Graduate Student, International Development Studies, Roskilde University (1992-95)

Manager of village water supply section, Projet Danois, Niger (1990-92)

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Geography, Roskilde University (1990)

Consultant with Danagro Adviser (Carl Bro Group) (1989)

Visiting Professor, Van Vollenhoven Institute, University of Leiden (Oct-Nov 2014)

Visiting Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley (2008-09)

Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics, Department of Economic History (March 2005)

Visiting Senior Researcher, Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen (2002)

Visiting Lecturer at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Marseille (Mar-Apr 2001)