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David Gordon, Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research
David Gordon is Professor of Social Justice and the Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research (see HYPERLINK "http://www.bris.ac.uk/poverty/" http://www.bris.ac.uk/poverty/) at the University of Bristol. David is an expert on poverty research and has written and edited over a hundred books, papers and reports on these subjects. He is a member of the UN Expert Group on Poverty Statistics (Rio Group) and contributed to its recent ‘Compendium of Good Practice in Poverty Measurement’. He has acted as an external expert for the European Union Working Group on Income, Poverty and Social Exclusion and was a scientific advisor to the European Union/Latin American Network 10 - Fight against Urban Poverty. David advised the United Nations Department for Economic & Social Affairs (UNDESA) on poverty and hunger issues amongst young people and contributed to the 2005, 2007 and 2009 World Youth Reports. He recently completed working with UNICEF on its first ever Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities which will be published during 2009.
David is the Principal Investigator for the ESRC Large Grant on Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK which aims to advance the ‘state of the art’ of the theory and practice of poverty and social exclusion measurement. This was the last grant Peter Townsend received before his untimely death in June.
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