Michael J. Watts
Director of Development Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Last Contribution:
Nigeria and the Politics of Price
Contributor Biography
Michael J. Watts is "Class of '63" professor of geography and director of Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught for 30 years. He served as the director of the Institute of International Studies at Berkeley from 1994-2004.
Over the last 20 years, he has written extensively on the oil industry, especially in Nigeria, and the Gulf of Guinea. His most recent book is The Curse of the Black Gold: Fifty Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, with photographer Ed Kashi. Watts was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2003.
