Emma Mawdsley is a senior lecturer in the Geography Department, Cambridge University and fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. She has written on critical development politics, including accounts of knowledge and power in transnational NGO networks, and on the World Development Reports and Millennium Challenge Account. She has also written extensively on environmental issues and politics in India. Recent publications include work on China and Africa, and she is currently writing a book on the (re-)emerging development cooperation partners (Zed Books).