Established 2013 Location Strand, London | Parent institution King's College London | |
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Directors Peter Kingstone and Andy Sumner Website www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/sga/idi/Index.aspx | ||
King’s Department of International Development (DDI) is an inter-disciplinary development department located within the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy at the King's College London. DDI was launched in 2013 with a focus on poverty and inequality in middle income developing countries particularly in Asia and Latin America. It's research revolves around development theory, political economy, economics, geography and social policy.
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DDI has students from 50 countries worldwide, who make half of all the student body. The department is a member of European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes. It has strong links with the Department for International Development, British Academy, Oxfam and UNDP, while it's staff hold's associate positions at Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Center for Global Development and the Institute of Development Studies. King's College London is ranked as one of the top 10 global development learning programs in the UK by QS University Ranking.
Structure
DDI is a development department focusing on middle income developing countries or ‘emerging economies’. It was launched in 2013. DDI offers teaching programmes at undergraduate and graduate level.
People
The department is currently directed by Peter Kingstone (PhD, UC Berkeley) and Andy Sumner (PhD, LSBU). Academic staff includes Ingrid Bleynat (PhD, Harvard), Jelke Boesten (PhD, Amsterdam), Luciano Ciravegna (PhD, LSE), Eduardo J. Gómez (PhD, Brown), Nahee Kang (PhD, Cambridge), Lisa Kingstone (PhD, Amherst), Andrés Mejía Acosta (PhD, Notre Dame), Susan Fairley Murray (PhD, Holloway), Robert Picciotto (PhD, Princeton) and Paul Segal (PhD, Oxford).
Research
As a development studies programme, DDI is distinctive for its interest in rising middle income developing countries (like the BRICs countries) as well as in social, political and economic phenomena and policy related questions of those fast-growing developing countries. The department’s mission is “to explore the sources of success in emerging economies as well as understand the major development challenges they continue to face”.
DDI’s areas of research are ‘inclusive development’ on the one hand and ‘national development’ on the other hand. Within these two broad themes, it works on five research clusters:
DDI publishes a working paper series and has links to various external organisations including institutions like the UK Foreign Office and the UK Department for International Development, the British Academy, the European Association of Development Institutes, the UK Development Studies Association, the US Council on Foreign Relations, UNDP, the United Nations University, the WHO, the World Bank and various international non-governmental and research organisations.
Publications
Academics
DDI runs the following teaching programmes: