Shaun Grech is founder and director of The Critical Institute. He is also editor-in-chief of the international journal, Disability and the Global South (DGS) and co-editor of the book series, Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development. His critical and interdisciplinary research covers a range of areas including disability, poverty and development, coloniality, critical disability studies, migration and intersectionality. Grech has published extensively in academic journals, is author of the book Disability and Poverty in the Global South: Renegotiating Development in Guatemala (Palgrave Macmillan), and co-editor of Inclusive Communities: A Critical Reader (Sense Publishers) and Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook (Springer). He serves on the board of a number of international journals including Social Inclusion and Annual Review of Critical Psychology. Shaun is also an activist and practitioner combining field level action research experience with disability practice projects in contexts of extreme rural poverty in Latin America.