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Lori Leonard

Professor

Global Development Section

Senior Associate Dean

Office of the Senior Associate Deans

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Interest

  • Gender
  • Waste & garbage
  • Ethnography
Chuan Liao

Assistant Professor

Global Development Section

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Interest

  • Environment, development & justice
  • Climate change mitigation & adaptation
  • Statistical & spatial methods
Diyang Lin

Ph.D. Student

Global Development Section

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  • dl2322 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Technology, digitalisation and globalization
  • Social/demographic outcomes and inequality
  • Migration and (social) mobility
Jan Low

Adjunct Professor

Global Development Section

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  • jwl59 [at] cornell.edu
Danning Lu

Ph.D. Student, Development Studies

Global Development Section

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  • dl873 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Waste governance, plastic, and consumption
  • Circular systems and innovation
  • Climate actions
Ed Mabaya

Research Professor

Global Development Section

Director, Humphrey Fellowship Program

Global Development Section

Director, Graduate Field of Global Development

Global Development Section

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Interest

  • Applied Economics and Policy
  • Food and Agricultural Economics
  • International and Development Economics and Policy
Fouad Makki

Associate Professor

Global Development Section

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Interest

  • Uneven and Combined Development
  • Nature and Modernity
  • State Formation and Development
Daniel Mason-D'Croz

Senior Research Associate

Global Development Section

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  • dem286 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Food system transformation
  • Scenario development/analysis & economic/foresight modeling
  • Anticipatory governance & futures thinking
Cynthia Mathys

Senior Project and Portfolio Manager

Global Development Section

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Franco Maximiliano Bilotto

Postdoctoral Associate, Food Systems and Global Change

Global Development Section

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  • fmb59 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Climate change, mitigation and adaptation
  • Sustainable agriculture and environmental analysis
  • Nutrient cycling in agroecosystems
Steven McCutcheon Rubio

Ph.D. Student, Development Studies

Global Development Section

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  • spm246 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Rural social movements
  • Agrarian change
  • Latin America
Andrew McDonald

Associate Professor

School of Integrative Plant Science

Soil and Crop Sciences Section

Associate Professor

Global Development Section

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  • ajm9 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Cropping systems ecology
  • Climate change adaptation and mitigation
  • Agricultural sustainability, food security, water resources, international agriculture, policy, and applied social sciences
Philip McMichael

Professor Emeritus

Global Development Section

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  • pdm1 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Food regimes
  • Food sovereignty
  • Agrarian questions
Purvi Mehta

Adjunct Professor

Global Development Section

Contact

  • pm473 [at] cornell.edu

Interest

  • Agricultural development
  • Agriculture and nutrition policy
  • South and southeast Asia
Terry Mingle

Assistant to the Director, Tata-Cornell Institute

Global Development Section

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  • tpm2 [at] cornell.edu