Professor Julian May is the Director of the Centre of Excellence in Food Security at the University of the Western Cape. He has worked on options for poverty reduction including land reform, social grants, information technology, and urban agriculture in Southern, East, and West Africa and in the Indian Ocean Islands. He has also worked on the development and use of systems for monitoring the impact of policy using official statistics, impact assessment, and action research. He has been associate research at Oxford University, the University of Manchester, and the International Food Policy Research Institute. In 2009 the National Research Foundation awarded him a Tier One South African Research Chair in Applied Poverty Reduction Assessment.
