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Séverine Deneulin is Associate Fellow in International Development at ODID, and Director of International Development at the Laudato Si’ Research Institute, Campion Hall.
Her research is in the area of development ethics, focusing on the works in ethics and economics by Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. Her research seeks to bring the social sciences in dialogue with religious traditions on matters of global socio-economic development and sustainability. Her regional expertise is Latin America. She is currently working on a research project on the role of faith communities as civil society actors in natural resource governance.
Her books include Human Development and the Catholic Social Tradition (Routledge, 2021), Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics (Routledge, 2014), Religion in Development (with Masooda Bano, Zed Books 2009). She has published many articles on development ethics and religion in development, including in World Development, Third World Quarterly, Development and Change.
Prior to coming to ODID, she was Associate Professor of International Development at the University of Bath. Séverine holds a DPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford, and a MSc in Economics from the University of Louvain in her native Belgium.
