People
Find out more about the people who make up the Centre for Digital Development.
Core members
Academic staff
- Shamel Azmeh
- Riza Batista-Navarro
- Richard Duncombe
- Larissa Fast
- Christopher Foster
- Ping Gao
- Anita Greenhill
- Richard Heeks (Director)
- Gianluca Iazzolino
- Aarti Krishnan
- Louis Major
- Gary Motteram
- Brian Nicholson
- Rose Pritchard
- Jaco Renken
- Matthew Sharp
- Negar Tabrizi
- Gindo Tampubolon
- Trevor Wood-Harper
- Yawei Zhao
- Qingna Zhou
Doctoral researchers
- Henry Aborele (MMU)
- Godfred Amankwaa
- Abdulhamid Ardo (Salford)
- Daniel Arubayi
- Arinze Ekwem
- Bookie Ezeomah
- Andre Gomes
- Azim Harun
- Taslima Ivy
- Xinlun Jiang
- Epiphania Kimaro
- Felix Kwihangana
- Julin Liu
- Chandrani Maitra (MMU)
- Pfavai Natasha Nyajeka
- Frank Olaniyi (MMU)
- Minjung Park
- Hao Peng
- Yitian Ren
- Isabelle Schlapfer
- Kaiyu Xu
- Taiyuan Zeng
- Yue Zhai
- Mengfei Zhou
Associate members and advisory board
University of Manchester associates
- Fred Agboma (GDI)
- Roshan Adhikari (GDI)
- Susan Brown (Manchester Institute of Education)
- Dave Carter (Urban Institute)
- Obuks Ejohwomu (School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering)
- Kelechi Ekuma (GDI)
- Jasmine Folz (Alliance Manchester Business School)
- Xia Han (Alliance Manchester Business School)
- Debra Howcroft (Alliance Manchester Business School)
- Shirley Jenner (GDI)
- Ian Miles (Alliance Manchester Business School)
- Sharon Morgan (GDI Honorary Fellow)
- Mike Newman (Alliance Manchester Business School)
- Andrew Robinson (School of Computer Science)
- Stuart Rutherford (GDI Honorary Fellow)
- Pedro Sampaio (Alliance Manchester Business School)
- Rory Stanton (GDI)
- Alistair Sutcliffe (Alliance Manchester Business School)
- Tahir Abbas Syed (Alliance Manchester Business School)
- Drew Whitworth (Manchester Institute of Education)
External associates
- Basma Albanna (Ain Shams University, Egypt)
- Ron Babin (Ryerson University)
- Andy Bardelli-Danieli (CDD Honorary Research Fellow)
- Julian Bass (University of Salford)
- Richard Boateng (University of Ghana Business School)
- Hasnain Bokhari (University of Erfurt)
- Jaime Echavarri (University of Sheffield)
- David Frohlich (University of Surrey)
- Terry Gibson (Inventing Futures)
- Juan Gomez Morantes (Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)
- Victor Gonzalez (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico)
- Brian Goulden (Pygma Consulting)
- Matt Haikin (DIAL)
- Ala'a Hawari (CDD Associate)
- Niall Hayes (Lancaster University)
- Abi Jagun (Gates Foundation)
- Hyeon-Suk Lyu (Korean Institute of Public Administration)
- Fareesa Malik (National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan)
- Mostafa Mohamad (Newcastle Business School)
- Alemayehu Molla (RMIT, Australia)
- Yanuar Nugroho (MIoIR Honorary Research Fellow)
- Juliet Ongwae (MicroSave)
- Angelica Valeria Ospina (CDD Associate)
- Hossein Sharif Paghaleh (SEERIO, Iran)
- Alfonso Rivera-Illingworth (Monterrey Tec, Mexico)
- Anand Sheombar (Hogeschool Utrecht)
- Cathy Urquhart (Manchester Metropolitan University)
- Bonaventure Vun (Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
- Yingqin Zheng (Royal Holloway University)
International advisory board
- John Davies (VP, Intel World Ahead)
- Valerie D'Costa (Manager, infoDev Program, The World Bank)
- Reshan Dewapura (COO, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka)
- Aida Opoku-Mensah (Director, ICTs and Science and Technology Division, UNECA)