I am Teaching Fellow in Comparative Politics of Development at the School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA), Durham University. Before that, I was Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. I hold a Ph.D. from the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London.
My research focuses on institutions and economic development, political economy of development, economic resource allocation, and challenges to statebuilding
I authored a book in 2022 on the economy of a post-conflict internationalized statebuilding. It examines the reconstruction of Afghanistan’s economy during the US-led international intervention. Applying an institutionalist framework and based on extensive empirical data, it focuses on resource allocation by private individuals in manufacturing activities. In other research, I have focused on the political economy of post-conflict statebuilding, policy responsiveness of international financial institutions in conflict-affected environments, the semantics of development policy discourse and labour recruitment in a nascent market-capitalist economy.
In 2023-2024, I teach and lead seminars in the following modules at SGIA, Durham University:
- SGIA1191 – Democratic Political Systems
- SGIA3681 – Poverty or Prosperity? The Political Economy of Development
- SGIA49915 – Quantitative Methods and Analysis
- SGIA2341 – Research Project
- SGIA1201 – Researching Politics and International Relations
I also supervise eight undergraduate dissertations.