BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE

The Oxford Department of International Development 

Professor Harriss-White is a political economist and field-economist with interests in the social ordering and state regulation of the market economy (studied through the production and distribution of basic commodities in various regions of South Asia and through four decades of field-research on a small market town and its rural hinterland), as well as its casualties (hence research into gender discrimination, poverty, destitution, malnutrition/alcoholism, disability, social discrimination and ageing).

From 2019 she has been one of twenty commissioners on the global Food Security Economics Commission  https://www.foodsystemeconomics.org/  with special interests in South Asia, agro-ecology, food systems waste and the political economy of food policies.