Leigh Mayhew

Leigh is a Research Officer within ODI’s Global Risks and Resilience programme and a Civil War Paths Fellow at the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War. His research focuses on armed groups and civil war dynamics; illicit economies and development; the political economy of smuggling networks; and radicalisation.

He holds a Masters in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College London, where he focused his studies on war economies, insurgency and the comparative study of civil wars.

Featured work

• Articles & reports

  Ashley Jackson, Florian Weigand, Leigh Mayhew & Ibraheem Bahiss (2022) Rethinking armed group control, ODI/Centre for the Study of Armed Groups

  Leigh Mayhew, Aoife McCullough, Sherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy & Simon Levine (2022) The intersection between socioeconomic conditions and youth radicalisation: implications for programming in the G5 Sahel countries, ODI

  Leigh Mayhew, Florence Pichon, Sarah Opitz-Stapleton & Rebecca Nadin (2020) In pursuit of resilience: assessing threats and trade-offs for risk-informed development in Myanmar and Niger, ODI

  Aoife McCullough, Leigh Mayhew & Sarah Opitz-Stapleton (2019) When rising temperatures don't lead to rising tempers: climate and insecurity in Niger, ODI

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