Yusuf Bangura was a Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva between 1990 and 2012 and lead author of the Institute’s flagship report ‘Combating Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change, Social Policy and Politics’ (2010). He was Series Editor of the Palgrave-Macmillan and UNRISD Series ‘Ethnic Inequalities and Governance of the Public Sector’ and ‘Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction’. After leaving UNRISD he taught international political economy at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone in 2013-14. He also taught in the Department of Political Science at Ahmadu Bello University from 1980-1988. He is based in Nyon, Switzerland, and his email address is  [email protected]