Place of birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, England

Parentage: daughter of Arthur William Thomas Eade, FRCP, FRCS and June-Mary Eade (née Cooke)

Family: married Chris Jackson; one son Joseph Jackson-Eade (b. 1994), one daughter Martha Jackson-Eade (b. 1992)

Education: MA, English Language and Literature, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford 1978; MA, European Literature, University of Sussex 1980; PGCE, Institute of Education, University of London 1982

Career: Deborah Eade was appointed Editor of Development in Practice (see url below) in 1991, shortly after its launch, and is the Founding Editor of the Development in Practice Readers series. She worked for ten years in Latin America for various local and international NGOs, and was, from 1984–91, Oxfam GB's Deputy Regional Representative for Mexico and Central America. She has undertaken consultancies for a number of UN agencies including the ILO and UNHCR, and has been the Rapporteur for various UNRISD conferences. Deborah and her family have lived in the Geneva area in Switzerland since 1994.

Publications include: author or co-author (books, reports, and monographs): Against the Grain: The Dilemma of Project Food Aid (with Tony Jackson) 1982, Unnatural Disaster: Drought in NE Brazil 1984, The Oxfam Handbook of Development and Relief (with Suzanne Williams) (three vols) 1995, After the Social Summit: Implementing the Programme of Action 1995, Capacity Building: An Approach to People-Centred Development 1997, Advancing the Social Agenda: Two Years After Copenhagen 1997, Civil Society and Development: Issues for NGOs (with Ernst Ligteringen) 1999, Social Knowledge and International Policy Making, Conference Report 2004; edited and co-edited volumes: Development in States of War 1996 (also published in Spanish), Development and Social Diversity 1996 (also published in Spanish), Development and Patronage 1997 (also published in Spanish), Development for Health 1997, Development and Rights 1998 (also published in Spanish), Development with Women 1999, Development and Social Action 1999, Development and Management: Experiences of Value-Based Conflict 2000, Development, NGOs, and Civil Society 2000 (also published in Spanish), Debating Development: NGOs in the Future 2001 (also published in Spanish), Development and Advocacy 2002, Development and Agroforestry: Scaling Up the Impact of Research 2002, Development and Cities 2002, Development and Culture 2002, Development and the Learning Organisation 2003, Development Methods and Approaches: Critical Reflections 2003, Development, Women, and War: Feminist Perspectives 2004, Development NGOs and Labor Unions: Terms of Engagement 2005, Development and the Private Sector: Consuming Interests 2006, Development and Humanitarianism: Practical Issues 2007, Buzzwords and Fuzzwords: Deconstructing Development Discourse, Rawat Publishers (forthcoming); editor and contributor: Mujer Centroamericana: Violencia y Guerra (Central American Women: Violence and War) 1987, Report on 1992 International Workshop on Red Cross and Red Crescent Cooperation in Repatriation 1992, Guide for Preparing, Designing and Implementing Red Cross and Red Crescent Operations for Refugees, Displaced Persons and Returnees 1994, From Conflict to Peace in a Changing World: Social Reconstruction in Times of Transition 1998, Post-war Reconstruction in Central America: Lessons from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua (translated and adapted from Spanish) 1999, Risk Mapping and Local Capacities: Lessons from Mexico and Central America (translated and adapted from Spanish) 2000, Pedagogical Materials on Decent Work 2005

Contact details: Address: c/o Oxfam GB, John Smith Drive, Oxford, OX4 2JY, England; Tel: +44 (0)1865 472116; Tel: +44 (0)1865 472693; Email: editor@developmentinpractice.org ; Website: http://www.developmentinpractice.org/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09614524.asp/ .