Severine Deneulin

Séverine Deneulin is Associate Fellow in International Development at ODID, and Director of International Development at the Laudato Si' Research Institute, Campion Hall.Her research is in the area of development ethics, focusing on the works of Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. Her research seeks to bring the social sciences in dialogue with religious traditions on matters of global socio-economic development and sustainability. Her regional expertise is Latin America. She currently researches the role of faith communities as civil society actors in natural resource governance.

She has published a research report on 'Faith-Based Participation in Natural-Resource Governance: Communities Defending Life and Territories in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico' in collaboration with the World Resource Institute. With ODID colleagues, she has recently edited a special issue of Oxford Development Studies on 'Social equity and care for the earth: tensions and synergies in Latin America'.Her books include Human Development and the Catholic Social Tradition (Routledge, 2021), Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics (Routledge, 2014), Religion in Development (with Masooda Bano, Zed Books 2009).

She has published many articles on the capability approach and human development, and on religion in development, including in World Development, Third World Quarterly, Development and Change.Prior to coming to Oxford, she was Associate Professor of International Development at the University of Bath. Séverine holds a DPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford, and a MSc in Economics from the University of Louvain in her native Belgium.