The Oxford-Achilles Working Group
on Corporate Social Responsibility

Biography: Catherine Dolan is an anthropologist specializing in the cultural and political economy of development. She has served as a senior consultant to the World Bank, DFID, USAID, and UNIFEM on issues of gender, trade, and poverty, and has led several research projects on pro-poor growth, livelihood diversification, and corporate social responsibility for international aid agencies. She is currently engaged in a research programme on markets, gender equity and poverty reduction, examining how partnerships between non profit entities (from women's networks to international NGOs) and global corporations can deliver development goals through market-based interventions in Africa (Kenya, South Africa, Ghana). Her main interest lies in the socio-political context of markets, and she has written extensively on agro-food commodity chains, sustainable agriculture, and alternative trade networks.

Prior to joining Oxford, she taught anthropology and development studies at Northeastern University, Boston (2002-2006) and the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia (1999-2001), and was a Research Officer in the Globalisation Programme, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. She was a Fulbright and Social Science Council Research Fellow, and has held Visiting Fellowships at the Centre of African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies; the Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the International Center for Research on Women in Washington, DC, and Boston University's Center for African Studies.

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