Professor Peter Taylor is Director of the Institute of Development Studies, UK where he was also Director of the UK’s FCDO-funded Covid Collective. He has PhD and MSc degrees in agricultural education, a BSc in animal sciences, and nearly 40 years’ experience in international development. He was previously Director, Strategic Development at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, also leading IDRC’s Inclusive Economies Program Area, and the Think Tank Initiative.
He has worked at IDS as Research Fellow, Head of Graduate Studies, and Leader of the Participation, Power and Social Change Team; as Education Technical Advisor with the Swiss NGO Helvetas in Vietnam; as Lecturer in Agricultural Education at the Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Department at the University of Reading, UK; and as a teacher in a rural school in Botswana. He has research, teaching, advisory and writing interests in strengthening equity in research systems; democratization of science, technology and innovation in agrifood systems; theory and practice of organizational development and capacity strengthening; evaluation and learning; and facilitation of participatory and social change processes in a diverse range of international contexts. He is member of Council for the UK’s Development Studies Association, a member of the International Advisory Council for the South Africa T20, and leads a European Association for Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) Task Group on Decolonizing Knowledge for Development.