Institute of Development Studies

Biography

Research Fellow in water supply and sanitation. He previously worked at the University of Oxford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT, at ETH Lausanne where he was the director of the Water Institutions and Management Competence Centre, at the Swiss Graduate Institute of Public Administration, and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. His fields of interests are public private partnerships, the governance and regulation of water supply and sanitation systems, access to water and sanitation and pro-poor regulation, water security, and transboundary water conflicts.

Jeremy is also a member of the Water Justice Programme

Selected Projects and Recent Work

• Rising Powers in International Development
• Global Uncertainties: Security in an Africa of Networked, Multi-Level Governance
• Learning Hub
• Flows and Practices: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Africa
• Tomorrow Today: Development Frontiers in an Insecure World: International Security and the Implications for Development
• Going to Scale? The Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation
• Understanding the Political Economy of Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Development
• Future Health Systems Research Programme Consortium
• Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre

Thematic Expertise

Climate Change; Environment; Governance; Politics and Power; Science and Society; Security and Conflict; Social Policy; Water and Sanitation.

Geographic Expertise

Central and South Asia; Middle East and North Africa; Sub Saharan Africa.

Selected Publications »»

• Nicol, A. Mehta, L. and Allouche, J. (2012) ''Some for All?' Politics and Pathways in Water and Sanitation', IDS Bulletin 43.2, Brighton: IDS
• Galaz, V., Biermann, F., Crona, B., Loorbach, D., Folke, C., Olsson, P., Nilsson, M., Allouche, J., Persson, A. and Reischl, G. (2011) 'Planetary Boundaries-Exploring the Challenges for Global Environmental Governance' , Beijer Discussion Paper Series
• Allouche, J. (2011) 'An Anachronistic Weberian Conception of State Building? Informal Providers, Service Delivery, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction' in Weinthal, E., Troell, J. and Nakayama, M. (eds), Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding , London: Earthscan
• Tanner, T. and Allouche, J. (2011) 'Political Economy of Climate Change', IDS Bulletin 42.3, Brighton: IDS
• Allouche, J. (2011) 'The Sustainability and Resilience of Global Water and Food Systems: A Political Analysis of the Interplay Between Security, Resource Scarcity, Political Systems and Global Trade', Food Policy 36.S1:S3-S8
• Allouche, J., Nicol, A. and Mehta, L. (2011) 'Water Security: towards the human securitization of water?', The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations No 1.Vol 12:153 - 171
• Allouche, J. and Daoudy, M. (2010) 'L'hydropolitique et les Relations Internationales: Introduction', Dynamiques Internationales 2:1-6
• Allouche, J. (2009) 'Water and State Formation' in Warner, J. and Wegerich, K. (eds), The Politics of Water, London : Routledge
• Allouche, J., Finger, M. and Luis-Manso, P. (2008) 'Water Sector Evolution Scenarios: The Case of Europe', Water Policy 10.3:221-238
• Allouche, J. (2007) 'The Governance of Central Asian Waters: National Interests Versus Regional Cooperation', Disarmament Forum 4:45 - 56
• Allouche, J., Finger, M. and Luis-Manso, P. (2007) Water and Liberalisation: European Water Scenarios, London: IWA Publishing
• Allouche, J., Finger, M. and Tamiotti, L. (2006) The Multi-Governance of Water: Four Case Studies, New York: State University of New York Press
• Allouche, J., and Finger, M. (2002) Water Privatisation: Transnational Corporations and the Re-regulation of the Global Water Industry , London and New York: Taylor and Francis
• Allouche, J. and Finger, M. (2001) 'Two Ways of Reasoning, One Outcome: The World Bank's Evolving Philosophy in Establishing a 'Sustainable Water Resources Management' Policy', Global Environmental Politics 1.2:42-7