Hossain, Naomi

Naomi Hossain is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex. She previously worked at BRAC's Research and Evaluation Division in Bangladesh, and led on BRAC University's first State of Governance in Bangladesh report in 2006. She now focuses on the popular politics of subsistence crises around the world, leading major studies on food riots and on everyday life in a time of food price volatility. She is the author of Elite Perceptions of Poverty in Bangladesh (2005; Dhaka: University Press Limited).