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| Caroline Moser is Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester. As an urban social anthropologist/social policy specialist she has more than 40 years of experience in urban development and social policy in academic research and teaching, in training and evaluation, and as an international bureaucrat. Caroline was a lecturer at the Development Planning Unit, UCL, where she ‘invented’ gender planning; at the LSE, London, and at the New School, New York. Caroline was Lead Specialist for Social Development in Latin America at the World Bank Washington DC where she researched the impact of structural adjustment on the urban poor. She worked in policy think-tanks such as the Overseas Development Institute, London and Brookings Institution, Washington. From 2007 -2012, Caroline was Professor of Urban Development and Director of the Global Urban Research Centre at the University of Manchester. Recent advisory work has included Comic Relief, ICRC, IDRC, Ford Foundation and Swedish Research Council. Research she has completed includes a 40-year longitudinal study of a Guayaquil, Ecuador, human settlement, on inter-generational asset accumulation and poverty reduction; three projects on climate change asset adaptation; and three on urban violence. Recent research projects have used participatory methodology, with local researcher capacity building in eight global South countries. Evaluations have included DFID (gender audit); UNICEF (human rights) and Swedish Mistra (urban futures). |