Wendy Harcourt is Emeritus Professor living in Rome Italy and working on care and multispecies justice, community economies and the commons. She retired in April 2026 after 14 years at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam and 23 years at the Society for International Development, Rome. She has published widely on post-development, feminism and critical development theory, sustainability, gender and development issues. She is editor of 2 handbooks, 12 edited collections and 2 monographs. She is series editor of the Palgrave Gender, Development and Social Change series and Bloomsbury Academic New Critical Thinking in Development series. Her latest book is Conundrums of Care: feminist entanglements in critical development studies, published open access by Bloomsbury Academic in December 2025.