Liz May is a Policy Fellow with the Africa Trade Policy Programme at LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. She has thirty years' experience of policy, research and advocacy work on international trade, development, environment, supply chains, business and human rights. 

She has worked in academia as a senior researcher at SOAS Development Leadership Dialogue; as a trade policy consultant for a wide range of private sector and government clients; and spent many years leading civil society advocacy work on trade rules and agreements for Transform Trade, Stop AIDS Campaign and Action for Southern Africa.