Kjell Havnevik

Kjell Havnevik is senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute and professor in development studies at the University of Agder, Norway. He has more than three decades of experience from research and higher education in Norwegian, Swedish and Tanzanian research institutes and universities. His research emphasis is on rural development, natural resource management, rural diversification, development assistance and the role of the World Bank in Tanzania and Sub-Saharan Africa. He has published a number of books and articles about various Tanzanian development issues and he led the team of researchers conducting the “Tanzanian Country Study and Aid Review”, published by the University of Bergen in 1988 and the study on “African Agriculture and the World Bank”, published by the Nordic Africa Institute in 2007.