Academic profile
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Chilombo is a PhD candidate working on land and housing markets in informal settlements in Zambia. Her research explores the evolution of formal and informal institutions and their role in structuring access to land, housing finance, construction, and exchange. She uses a new institutionalist approach to analyse themes such as path dependency, critical junctures, transaction costs, and power and politics. Before the PhD, Chilombo was a lecturer at the University of Lusaka and Research Fellow at the UN Economic Commission for Africa. Chilombo has also worked as a consultant for USAID and the University of the Western Cape and vice president of the Cambridge Initiative of African Urbanism.
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Category/Classification
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Land and housing policy, urban studies |