Franklyn Lisk is a visiting Professorial Research Fellow at CSGR.
At CGSR, Prof. Lisk is engaged in research and policy analysis on global health governance focusing mainly on HIV/ AIDS responses and on the political economy of African development and in particular employment and labour market challenges and China-Africa relations. He is also involved in the activities of the Sub-Saharan Africa Research Network at the Institute of Advanced Study, and contributes to the teaching and graduate supervision in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Warwick Business School. He is also an Honorary Visiting Professor at the School of Social and International Studies, University of Bradford and a Senior Research Associate of the Center for Research on Political Economy (CREPOL) in Dakar, Senegal. He has recently provided consultancy and technical advisory services to the African Development Bank, Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Africa Progress Panel, Geneva, North-South Institute, Ottawa, World Bank, UNDP, UNAIDS, UNIDO, bilateral donor agencies and African governments. He was a Professor Extraordinary at the Africa Centre for HIV/AIDS Management at Stellenbosch University in South Africa from May 2005 to November 2006, where he developed modules on the economic impact and labour market implications of HIV/AIDS for the post-graduate diploma and MPhil programmes. Prior to that, he worked with the Geneva-based International Labour Office (ILO) from 1974 until 2005, and held various senior positions including Senior Economist, Regional Adviser on Employment Policy for the Caribbean, Deputy Regional Director (Technical Programmes).