David Howard is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. Outwith the University, he is a C.N.R.S. Associate at the Centre Afriques dans le Monde, Université de Bordeaux IV. He has researched in a number of areas relating to the contemporary Caribbean and Latin America, with a specific focus on urban neighbourhoods, social sustainability, migration and development. Recent research projects have centred on urban violence, land rights and housing in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.