Susanne Jaspars

Susanne has worked on the social and political dynamics of food in situations of conflict, famine and humanitarian crises for more than thirty years. In 2016, she completed a PhD in Politics, examining the history and politics of food aid in Sudan, at Bristol University. She previously gained an MSc in Human Nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1986). Susanne has worked both has practitioner and researcher, mostly in the Horn of Africa. As a practitioner, she worked for organisations such as Medecins sans Frontieres, Oxfam, the World Food Programme. As researcher, Susanne worked as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, as Senior Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute’s Humanitarian Policy Group in London, and she is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the SOAS Food Studies Centre. She is the PI of an ESRC-funded project on 'Digitalising food assistance: Political economy, governance and food security effects across the Global North-South divide' Susanne has published a number of books, academic articles and policy reports. She is co-editor of Disasters journal and on Vice President of the International Humanitarian Studies Association.