Leo de Haan (1950) is Director of the African Studies Centre in Leiden and also Professor in the Development of Sub-Saharan Africa at Leiden University.
His main research interests are the conceptualization of rural and urban African livelihoods; international and national migration patterns resulting in the multi-locality of livelihoods; and the multi-dimensionality of poverty. His previous research focused on the commercialization of agriculture, environmental management and resource conflicts among peasants and pastoralists, and pastoral livelihoods and geography, including man-land relations.
Leo de Haan was Associate Professor in Human Geography of Developing Countries at the University of Amsterdam until 1999 and Professor of Development Studies at the University of Nijmegen until August 2004.