Dr. Chris Huggins is an Associate Professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa. He holds a PhD in Geography (specialization in political economy) from Carleton University, Canada. His research interests include critical political economy, natural resource management, and livelihoods approaches, with a geographical focus on several African countries, particularly Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Tanzania.  

Huggins has published widely on natural resources governance issues, including a 2017 monograph, Agricultural Reform in Rwanda: Authoritarianism, Markets and Zones of Governance (Zed Books). He is a member of the editorial board of the Nokoko journal of African studies and is a non-Resident Fellow of the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS, Nairobi).