Peter Middlebrook

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Dr. Peter J. Middlebrook (born in Lincoln, U.K., 15 November 1965) is a leading political economist specialising in the reconstruction of post conflict societies.

Middlebrook has published widely on the challenges of rebuilding post conflict states, and much of his work focuses on restructuring government institutions, political analysis and the political economy of poverty reduction. He is the Joint managing director of Middlebrook & Miller LLC, a think tank specialising in post conflict reconstruction. He works for the World Bank in Afghanistan and as an Advisor to the Government on the Afghanistan National Development Strategy.

He was the coordinator of the successful "Securing Afghanistan's future" exercise and has published many foreign policy articles on the challenges of reconstruction.

He has also published Online Books on hunger and poverty reduction and is currently the editor of a number of journals.

Dr. Middlebrook has provided policy advisory services to the Government's of the United Kingdom, the European Union, World Bank, Netherlands Government, and the government's of Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Sri Lanka,Malawi, Nepal and Nigeria among others. He specialises in the political economy of the Horn of Africa, Central Asia and South Asia.

[edit] Education

He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree First Class (Hons) from the University of Northumbria in Newcastle, UK and a PhD from the University of Durham, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies UK