DevLab Seminar Afrobarometer Presentation - “African Voices on African Issues”
Hosted by DevLab at NYU Abu Dhabi
Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Time: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM Eastern Time
Speaker:
Professor Robert Mattes, co-founder and board member of Afrobarometer
Robert Mattes is professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland and board member and co-founder of Afrobarometer. Originally from the United States, he spent 25 years researching and teaching in South Africa before moving to Strathclyde in 2016. He was visiting research scholar at Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies in 2016.
He is honorary professor of political studies and former director of the Democracy in Africa Research Unit in the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town. Robert was principal investigator in major research projects such as the African Legislatures Project and the South African National Election Study.
He is the co-author author of Public Opinion, Democracy, and Markets in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2005). His articles have appeared in American Journal of Political Science, World Development, and Party Politics, among others. Robert holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Afrobarometer is non-partisan, pan-African research institution conducting public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy and society in 30+ countries repeated on a regular cycle. They are the world’s leading source of high-quality data on what Africans are thinking. They are the world’s leading research project on issues that affect ordinary African men and women. Afrobarometer collects and publishes high-quality, reliable statistical data on Africa which is freely available to the public.
RSVP:
The seminar is for researchers and academics interested in Development topics. If you are interested in joining the seminar, please email us at devlab@nyu.edu.