Professor Tilman Brück is a development economist analysing the behaviour and welfare of poor and vulnerable people and households in conflict-affected, fragile and humanitarian emergency settings, how policies and programmes can support people in such settings and how to conduct research in such settings. Tilman is Head of the Research Group ‘Economic Development and Food Security’ at the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops in Großbeeren near Berlin, Professor for Economic Development and Food Security at the Department of Agricultural Economics at Humboldt-University of Berlin, and Founder and Director of ISDC - International Security and Development Center in Berlin. He is also the Principal Investigator of the Life in Kyrgyzstan Study, the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Households in Conflict Network, and a co-founder of the Global Young Academy. Tilman Brück studied economics at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford and obtained a doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford.