Författare: Tessa Bending

Tessa Bending is an economist and anthropologist at the Economics Department of the European Investment Bank. She joined the EIB in 2014, with a focus on the impact of the Bank's development activities and a broad remit to help its Economics Department better convey its research and policy messages. Her current work also looks at social inclusion in the European Union and the social impacts of the climate transition. Born and educated in the United Kingdom, Tessa began her career studying land rights conflict in Malaysia. Her work Penan Histories (KITLV Press, 2006) recounts how members of an indigenous community in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, sought to manage relations with the state, logging companies and Western environmentalists. Amid rival stories told from different sides, it is also about the traps we fall into when we tell other people's histories, and the hard task of trying to do justice to what might have happened. Tessa received her doctorate from the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK. After moving to Rome in 2007, she worked as a consultant with the United Nations and civil society organisations on land rights issues. Tessa lives with her three children in Luxembourg.