Lloyd George Banda is a political economist with expertise in applied econometrics, development economics, comparative politics, and public policy. Lloyd is currently serving as a postdoctoral Research Fellow for the BAOBAB synthesis team “Climate vulnerabilities, conflict and livelihood dynamics in the Sahel (Climate Sahel Team)”.
Lloyd holds a PhD in Political Science from Stellenbosch University. He has a strong background on governance and the effects of government policy on development outcomes at both the domestic and international levels. This work is geographically anchored in Sub-Saharan Africa and aligned with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions) and the interaction thereof with the three pillars of prosperity: environmental equilibrium, economic viability, and social equity. To support this research, Lloyd draws on a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative inquiry with quantitative techniques such as economic modelling and computational analysis, using tools including Stata, EViews, Python, and SPSS.