Andrew Shepherd is an Honorary Associate at IDS since 2022 and is the Director of the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network.

Andrew has now led the production of five international Chronic Poverty Reports, the latest (2023) on Pandemic Poverty and the previous one (2019) on Growth. Previously director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre while at ODI, he has also worked on several large evaluations of anti-poverty policies and programmes. He has been a director of programmes at ODI and was previously a staff member of Unicef in Sudan as well as a senior lecturer at Birmingham University. His major  country experiences have been in Ghana, India, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and more recently Rwanda and Zambia. His specialisation now is in policy analysis on poverty reduction.