Lisa Ann Richey is Professor of International Development Studies at the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University. She is the author of Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World with Stefano Ponte (Minneapolis and London: Univ. of Minnesota Pub.), Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics (New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), and the co-editor of "Women and Development: Rethinking Policy and Reconceptualizing Practice" (special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly, 2003). She completed post-doctoral training in the Department of Population and International Health at Harvard University and a Ph.D. in the Department Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the U.S. My work combines anthropology, public health and political studies--using rich case studies of the "local" to understand global discourses on health, development aid and gender.