Patrick Bond

Who is Patrick Bond?

Patrick Bond is professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he has directed the Centre for Civil Society since 2004. His research interests include political economy, environment, social policy, and geopolitics. From 1994-2002, Patrick worked for the South African government, authoring or editing more than a dozen policy papers including the Reconstruction and Development Programme and the RDP White Paper. He has also taught at the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public and Development Management from 1997-2004. Bond gave the keynote lecture at the Leeds University Centre for African Studies conference on 'Democratization in Africa: Retrospective and Future Prospects' at Leeds University in December 2009.

Bond is an advisory board member of several international journals: Socialist Register, International Journal of Health Services, Historical Materialism, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Studies in Political Economy, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Review of African Political Economy, and the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.