Dzodzi Tsikata is a Distinguished Research Professor of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London and an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana. She is the immediate past Director of the IAS (2016-2022), and was a Research Professor of Development Sociology at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana. Her research for the last 30 years has been in the areas of gender and development policies and practices, agrarian change and rural livelihoods, the labour relations of the informal economy, and social policy. Her recent publications include, with Dzifa Torvikey, “COVID-19 and Africa: A Synthesis of 12 Country Studies”, published by the INCLUDE Knowledge Platform (2021) and with Joanna Bourke Martignoni, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay and Elisabeth Prügl, an edited book, “Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food: Insights from Ghana and Cambodia”, Routledge, Taylor, and Francis (2023). She was the first coordinator of the Ghana Social Development Outlook, a biennial publication of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana.
Dzodzi is a leading member of several independent global South capacity building, research, and policy advocacy networks, including the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS), the Agrarian South Network, Third World Network Africa, and the Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana. She is the Managing Editor of the pan-African journal, Feminist Africa and a member of the editorial collective of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. She is currently a board member of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), the Development Network DAWN, and Africa Journals Online (AJOL) and the Centre for Democracy and Development in Abuja. She is a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. [email protected]
