Emmanuel Matteudi is a Professor and the Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at Aix-Marseille University, France, and a member of the Environment and Urban Planning Interdisciplinary Laboratory. An expert on poverty in developing countries, he has engaged in research and expertise activities for almost 20 years for central governments, local governments, research organisations, NGOs and agencies of the United Nations. His most recent book, Le développement local en Afrique ou comment repenser la pauvreté, received the Turgot Award in 2013. He has also just published a book with Ewa Bogalska-Martin, “The social question in the global world, seeking an effective paradigm », Cambridge scolars publishing.
