Teddy Brett

Professor Brett has been involved in research, teaching and practice in Development since the 1960s, first in South Africa at Witwatersrand University, then in Uganda at Makerere University in the 1960s and 1970s, and at Sussex University and the Institute of Development Studies from 1967 to 1992. He joined the Development Studies Institute, now Department of International Development at the LSE in 1993, and was a Visiting Fellow at Witwatersrand University from 2001 to 2005. He completed his PhD in Political Science at the LSE in 1966, and has published extensively on African Political Economy, with special reference to Uganda and Zimbabwe, on International Political Economy, Civic Institutions and Development Theory, and participated in research and consultancy projects sponsored by the World Bank, DFID, and DANIDA.

Expertise Details

• The Political Economy of Development; Institutional and Organisational Reform; Problems of Crisis and Reconstruction in Africa; Uganda; Zimbabwe; South Africa

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) London school of Economics (1961 — 1966)