Dr. Matthew McCartney
Advisor — Economics, Development, Urbanism, Migration, China & South Asia
Professor Matthew McCartney
Professor Matthew McCartney spent twenty years as an academic at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London (2000-2011), and at the University of Oxford (2011-21). Since 20021 he has been working for Africa and South Asia oriented policy think tanks including the Charter Cities Institute (CCI), the Africa Urban Lab (AUL), and the Zanzibar Research Centre for Socio-Economic and Policy Analysis (ZRCP). Matthew has been a visiting Professor at Universities in China, Pakistan, India, Japan, South Korea, Poland, and Belgium. He is a development economist by background with a teaching and research specialization in the economic development of India and Pakistan after 1947, and Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Zanzibar. He has published, supervised, and taught on economic issues relating to industrialization, urbanisation, technology, trade, the role of the state, investment and economic growth, and human development issues relating to nutrition, employment, education, poverty, and inequality. He has also worked for the World Bank, USAID, EU, and UNDP, and the Tony Blair Institute, in Botswana, Georgia, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Jordan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Zambia.
Matthew holds a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge, an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Economics from SOAS, University of London. Matthew has published eight books (Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Palgrave, and Routledge), fifteen peer-review journal articles and fifteen book chapters. His last book was the outcome of two years of research-based in China and Pakistan ‘The Dragon from the Mountains: The CPEC from Kashgar to Gwadar’ and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. His next book is looking at the role of the developmental state and industrialisation over recent decade in Ethiopia and Zambia.