Helen Lackner is visiting fellow at the European Council for Foreign Relations and an associate of the Transnational Institute. The new edition of her book Yemen in Crisis: Devastating Conflict, Fragile Hope has just been published by Saqi. Her Yemen: Poverty and Conflict was published by Routledge in 2022. Her other books are PDR Yemen, Outpost of Socialist Development in Arabia (1985) and A House Built on Sand: A Political Economy of Saudi Arabia (1978). She has also edited a number of volumes on Yemen and contributed numerous chapters on different aspects of Yemeni society and politics to other edited books. She regularly contributes to Arab Digest, Jacobin, Oxford Analytica, and Orient XXI, among others. She lived in Yemen for more than fifteen years in the past half century.
Helen Lackner had a long career in social aspects of rural development projects, working in more than thirty countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, focusing on the problems and needs of poorer and marginalized populations, including on gender issues. She has worked in agricultural and fisheries’ projects and her activities have focused on water management and community development mechanisms.
