Yusuf Bangura taught international political economy at the Department of Political Science, Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria during the 1980s and served as Vice President of the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) from 1984-1985. He also worked as a Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) from 1990-2012 where he was the lead author of the Institute’s flagship report *Combating Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change, Social Policy, and Politics* (UNRISD, 2010) and Series Editor of *Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction* (Palgrave Macmillan and UNRISD) and *Ethnicity, Inequality and Public Sector Governance* (Palgrave Macmillan and UNRISD, 2006). After retiring from UNRISD, he taught international political economy at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, from 2013-2014.