Catherine Boone Professor, Department of Government and Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Catherine Boone holds a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on comparative political economy. She is the author of Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (2024), Property and Political Order in Africa: Land Rights and the Structure of Politics (2014), Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice (2003), and Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal, 1930–1985 (1993), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. She is an elected Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.