Professor Andrew Martin Fischer (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) will deliver the lecture on “Academic Tutoring: Research Process and Methodology” on Saturday December 5th, 2026 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Andrew Martin Fischer is Professor of Inequality, Social Protection and Development at the International  Institute of Social Studies – ISS, of Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also the Chair and a co-editor of the journal Development and Change; and founding (former) editor of the Oxford University Press book series Critical Frontiers of International Development Studies. His latest book, Poverty as Ideology (Zed, 2018), was awarded the International Studies in Poverty Prize by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and Zed Books and, as part of the award, is now fully open access. Trained in demography and development economics, Fischer works extensively on poverty, inequality, social policy, and international development. He earned his Ph.D. in Development Studies from the London School of Economics (LSE) for his research on China’s regional development strategies in western China and their impact on ethnic minorities, principally Tibetans, but also Uyghurs and other minorities. He has written two books on this topic, the second being The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China: A Study in the Economics of Marginalization (Lexington Books, 2014), as well as numerous articles in leading journals such as Population and Development Review and China Quarterly. [read more]