Professor Jeremy Allouche is a co-director of the Humanitarian Learning Centre and principle investigator of the ESRC-funded project The Great Green Wall and Sahelian Environmental Imaginaries: Green Fix and the Persistence of a Policy Idea and the British Academy funded project, Anticipatory evidence and large dam impact assessment in transboundary policy settings: Political ecologies of the future in the Mekong Basin. He has just completed two other research projects, a GCRF-funded project Islands of Innovation in Protracted Crisis, and an AHRC/DFID-funded project New Community-Informed Approaches to Humanitarian Protection and Restraint.
He is trained in history and international relations with over 20 years research and advisory experience on resource politics in conflict and borderland areas and the difficulties of aid delivery in such contexts, as well as studying the idea of ‘islands of peace’. He previously worked at the University of Oxford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT, ETH Lausanne, the Swiss Graduate Institute of Public administration, and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.
He has extensive fieldwork experience in West and Central Africa, most notably Cote d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone and DRC, conducting research with international donor and aid agencies, peacebuilding international NGOs, local civil society, and human rights activists. His advisory experience includes work with Care, Conciliation Resources, DFID, IrishAid, SDC, UNHCR and the World Food Programme. He is on the editorial board of International Peacekeeping Journal and the Annual Review of Environment and Resources.
Jeremy co-supervises two PhD students, who work on infrastructures and resource governance in the DRC (Julian Neef), and peacebuilding in the Middle East (Jeremy Barker). He is particularly interested in hearing from prospective candidates who are proposing to focus their PhD research on humanitarianism, peacebuilding and African politics and development.
