LUCAS Seminar: Jörg Wiegratz ‘Market society in Africa: Insights from Uganda’

Location: Social Science Building, Room 11.13

Jörg Wiegratz is a Lecturer in Political Economy of Global Development at the University of Leeds. Previously, Jorg taught at the universities of Bath and Sheffield. He holds a PhD in Politics (Sheffield), a MA in International Political Economy (Warwick), and a MA in Economics (Cologne, Germany).

Between 2004-2007, he  worked as a researcher and consultant in Uganda, for the UN Industrial Development Organization, the Government of Uganda’s Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Industry and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation.  Jorg has also been a Resource Person at Makerere University and a Visiting Scholar at the Economic Policy Research Centre, Kampala.

To date Jorg's research has explored aspects of neoliberalism especially neoliberal moral economy and moral restructuring, market society, economic fraud, cultural political economy, everyday IPE, market embeddedness, global value chains, industrial development, human resource development and African development, predominantly with a focus on Uganda.