Tim Hughes
Position: Research Fellow
Programme/Project: Governance of Africa's Resources
Tim.Hughes@saiia.org.za
Areas of Research Expertise:
- Natural resource governance
- African legislatures
- Foreign policy
Background:
Tim’s association with SAIIA commenced in 1989. He has served many years on SAIIA’s Cape Town branch and served as its Deputy Chair. Tim holds an MA (cum laude) from the University of Cape Town. He was a researcher at UCT’s Institute for Public Policy and lectured at UCT until 2001. He was a researcher for the Second Carnegie Inquiry in South Africa as well as for trade unions. He was the first Chief Executive Officer of COSATU’s investment trust international joint venture and was a Director of a JSE listed asset management company. Tim established SAIIA’s parliamentary liaison programme in Cape Town and ran SAIIA’s SADC parliamentary research programme, as well as its Lesotho Democracy Programme. In 2007 he founded SAIIA’s Governance of Africa’s Resources Programme (GARP) and is now Research Fellow with GARP. He has written a book on South Africa’s foreign policy in the post-apartheid period and was team leader on the SAIIA SADC future scenarios programme. He has written a study of poverty policy in SADC and has conducted research with the SADC Parliamentary Forum. Tim was series editor for the Strengthening Parliamentary Democracy in SADC Reports as well as for a series of papers on opposition politics in SADC. Tim has worked extensively on natural resource governance, particularly in the mining sector and on conflict diamonds. He has conducted research in 20 African countries, as well as the United States, Britain, Norway, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Taiwan, Singapore, the Gulf States, Israel and Palestine.
Language:
English
Recent publications:
Tanzanian mining country report
Editor of GARP thematic papers on mining, oil, forestry, fisheries, water governance
Hughes T (ed), SADC parliamentary-Civil Society Engagement Handbook, SAIIA, 2006.
Hughes T, 'Composers, conductors and players: Harmony and discord in South African Foreign policy making' Occasional Paper, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Johannesburg, 2004.
Media Articles:
The modest ambitions of Obama’s Africa policy (Business Day)
The Niger Delta, from red light to amber? (Business Day)
