Professor Pallavi Roy (Shool of Oriental & African Studies – SOAS) will deliver the lecture on “Clientelism & Corruption” on Saturday January 24th, 2026 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Pallavi Roy is a Professor of Political Economy and Deputy Dean for research and knowledge exchange in the College of Social Sciences at SOAS University of London. Her research is on the application of institutional economics and in particular the political settlements framework to governance, and the political economy of late development. She is Co-Director of the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s (FCDO) £6 million Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) research partnership consortium working primarily in Bangladesh and Nigeria, in sectors like electricity, renewables, extractives, primary healthcare, and digital governance. She has worked across developing countries and has extensive experience of working with donors and research organizations like the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, World Bank, UNESCAP, Agence Francaise de Developpement, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (Bangladesh). She is a visiting faculty member at the International Anti-Corruption Academy in Laxenberg, Austria. She is also advisor to funders like the FCDO on large multi-million pound development programmes and is co-chair of the Scaling Community of Practice on Fragile States. [read more]