Africa

In-house editorial staff

Jason Mosley

Senior Editor, Africa
Masters in African Studies from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, where he focused on the Great Lakes region, particularly the Democratic Republic of Congo. BA in History and Linguistics from the University of New Hampshire. Previous positions include Research Associate for the All Party Parliamentary Group on the Great Lakes Region and Genocide Prevention, where he wrote on land policy in Rwanda. Also spent approximately two years in Ethiopia as a volunteer with the US Peace Corps.

Region Heads

Dr Jesmond Blumenfeld

Associate Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Finance, Brunel University
Formerly Associate Research Fellow (Southern Africa), Chatham House, and Associate Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Finance, Brunel University. Editor of South Africa in Crisis (Methuen/RIIA, 1987). Author of Economic Interdependence in Southern Africa (Pinter Publishers, 1992), and journal articles on South Africa.

Professor John Toye

Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
Expert on international financial institutions and co-author of Aid and Power: the World Bank and Policy-Conditioned Lending (Routledge, 1995). Has worked for the UK Treasury, Commodities Research Unit Ltd, the Institute of Development Studies and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

Dr Kate Skinner

Lecturer at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham
Specialises in West and Francophone Africa, publishes on education and democratic politics, and retains an interest in the impact of women's health upon development. Former Africa Editor at Oxford Analytica.

Dr Nicholas Cheeseman

Sir Christopher Cox Junior Fellow, New College, Lecturer in Politics, St Anne's College, Oxford University
Specialises in Africa history and politics, particularly in Kenya and Zambia, and in the role of political parties in new democracies. Publications have focused on state design and patronage politics in Kenya, the impact of electoral politics in Africa, and the use of opinion polls in the study of African political science.