Bio: Catherine Boone is Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and holds a PhD in Political Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on questions of comparative political economy. She is author of Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (2024), Property and Political Order: Land Rights and the Structure of Politics in Africa (2014); Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice (2003), Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal (1993), and book chapters and articles. She convened the LSE MSc program in Africa Development from 2014-2020. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020 and to the British Academy in 2021. She has convened the LSE-UCL Land Politics Working Group since 2015.
