• Lecturer, King's College London

Barnaby is a political economist, with research that lies at the intersection of infrastructure in Africa and the so-called Rising Southern Powers, especially India and Brazil, and their international relations and development cooperation. This involves analysing international policymaking, tracing decisions about finance and diplomacy in global cities like Washington DC and Delhi to national economic planning and then to individual infrastructure projects and the impacts they have on economies, people and the environment.

Barnaby's research has focused on an infrastructure boom in Africa, tracing this to a set of international drivers, to Rwanda, Tanzania, Ghana and Ethiopia and then individual large dams. Through this work, he has studied Indian and Brazilian relations with Africa in detail, placing these within each country's global strategic goals, diplomatic history and domestic politics.

Through this research Barnaby has analysed the evolution of development policy and practice. His monograph focuses on an adapted modernist development ideology that combines past mid-20th century visions of progress with 21st century neoliberalism to drive the ambitions and content of states in the last two decades. He also researches changes among 'southern' donors, particularly India, as they expand to become major international development actors.

He has also published research on the political economy of the electricity sectors of Ghana, Tanzania and Rwanda, focusing on their drivers. This is continuing with research on the green transition, its drivers, blockers and social outcomes.

Having read geography at the University of Cambridge and completed a master's degree at King's College, London, Barnaby undertook a doctorate at the University of Oxford where he also led the Oxford University China-Africa Forum and Oxford Central Africa. Barnaby then joined the University of Manchester's Global Development Institute, leading research for FutureDAMS Research Consortium in Ghana and India as well as undertaking policy impact work. He then started a permanent lectureship at the University of York in 2022 and in 2024 moved to King's College, London.

• 2024–present Lecturer, King's College, London
• 2022–2024 Lecturer, University of York
• 2021–2022 Research fellow, University of Manchester
• 2018–2020 Research associate, University of Manchester

• 2019 University of Oxford , Doctorate of Philosophy (DPhil)

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