Naomi Hossain is the Global Research Professor of Development Studies at SOAS University of London. A political sociologist, she researches the politics of development, with a focus on understanding how people living with poverty and precarity get the public services they need. Educated at the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics, and the University of Sussex, she previously worked at BRAC’s Research and Evaluation Division in Bangladesh, the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in England, and the Accountability Research Center at American University in Washington DC. Her authored and co-edited books include Elite Perceptions of Poverty in Bangladesh (University Press Limited 2005), The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning (Oxford University Press 2019), and Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions (Routledge 2019).