Education
He completed his Doctor of Philosophy in food research from Stanford University in 1988.
He completed his Doctor of Philosophy in food research from Stanford University in 1988.
He is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and a Research Professor at the University of Sussex. From 2004-2014 Lawrence Haddad was the director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). He was also the United Kingdom’s representative on the Steering Committee of the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the United Nations"s Committee on World Food Security (Cerebrospinal fluid) which was established in 2009 with the aim of making the Cerebrospinal fluid more effective in research analysis.
He was also the President of the United Kingdom and Ireland"s Development Studies Association, 2010-2012.
Before joining IDS in 2004, Lawrence Haddad was Director of the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Prior to this Lawrence Haddad was a lecturer in quantitative development economics at the University of Warwick.
He has also been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics. Haddad"s research focuses on a wide range of issues related to the well-being of the poor, including the design of policies and programs intended to reduce poverty and malnutrition, the impact of gender difference in access to resources on nutrition and poverty, the role of community participation in the performance of poverty programs, and the challenges rapid urbanization poses for the poor.
Lawrence Haddad has published extensively on these issues.
He is the co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report Lawrence Haddad’s blog Development Horizons is part of the Guardian’s Global Development Blogosphere which he describes as “some unguarded reflections, thoughts, and ideas on international development”.