Dr. Jean-Paul Faguet is Professor of the Political Economy of Development at the London School of Economics and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was Chair of the Decentralization Task Force at Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue, and has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Stanford, UNC-Chapel Hill, the European University Institute, and the Santa Fe Institute. He works at the frontier between economics and political science, using Q2 methods to investigate development transformations. Recent publications include Decentralized Governance: Crafting Effective Democracies Around the World (LSE, 2023), Is Decentralization Good for Development? Perspectives from Academics and Policymakers (Oxford, 2015), and Decentralization and Popular Democracy: Governance from Below in Bolivia (Michigan), which won the W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize for best political science book of 2012.

Most of his writings, interviews, data, videos, photos, etc are available on his website.