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#EADI50 Opening Panel now Online: Development Studies and Policy Engagement: Building the Missing Link?

While policymakers, practitioners and academics alike are dedicating efforts towards achieving global sustainable development – currently largely embodied in the formulationof the 2030 Agenda –, an important and implicit (yet often sidelined) conceptual question is what is it that these efforts are aiming to do when they are put at the service of ‘development’. There are inevitable underlying assumptions concerning what desirable and attainable ‘development’ constitutes, which determine which actions or decisions are taken, albeit not explicitly.

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During this panel at the Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid we explored the nexus between the academic activity within the scholarly field of Development Studies in Europe and the engagement with policy processes and decision-making. Efforts by policymakers, practitioners and academics dedicated towards ‘development’ imply inevitable underlying assumptions concerning what desirable and attainable development constitutes, which determines the corresponding decisions and actions taken. Indeed, different conceptualisations –or schools of thought– of development can coexist, overlap, or even compete with each other to different extents, which in turn can have an impact on policymaking. 

Panellists:

  • Megan Naidoo, Predoctoral Fellow, ISGlobal (online) | @ISGLOBALorg (online).
  • Martín Rivero, Coordinator of Social Cohesion and South-South Cooperation Area, SEGIB | @SEGIBdigital.
  • Andy Sumner, Professor, King’s College London; President, EADI | @andypsumner.
  • Érika Rodríguez Pinzón, Director, Fundación Carolina | @emaropi.

Moderated by: Iliana Olivié, Senior Analyst, Elcano Royal Institute; Vice-President, EADI; Director, European Think Tanks Group | @iolivie.