Francesco Obino

Francesco is Director of the Research Programmes Unit at the Global Development Network, as well as Senior Fellow, Research Capacity Building & Institutions and Networks. At GDN, he leads the global team of Fellows and Managers who design and implement GDN programmes. He also leads the Doing Research global initiative.

Francesco has seventeen years of experience in research, publishing and research capacity building in academia, international organisations, international and grassroots NGOs. He has studied international politics, political philosophy and international development in Italy, Portugal, the UK and India. He has worked in two dozen countries across Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Pacific. His main research interests are the interplay of institutional development and organisational functioning for research organisations, complex collaborations and the role of research funders in decolonising development knowledge. 

He may be reached at fobino@gdn.int