Jeffrey Neilson is an Australian geographer at the University of Sydney who has been researching and working in Indonesia for thirty years. His research interests are diverse and include food security and food sovereignty, the global coffee industry, the global cocoa-chocolate industry, agrarian reform movements, sustainable livelihoods, and environmental governance. He has published more than 40 academic journal articles and book chapters, and his research is well known and widely cited around the world. Jeff is a fluent Indonesian speaker and has conducted extended periods of ethnographic field research in the Toraja region of Sulawesi. In addition to his research focus on Indonesia, he has also undertaken field research in India and co-authored a book with Bill Pritchard, Value Chain Struggles: Institutions and Governance in the Plantation Districts of South India. He is currently involved in research projects examining the coffee sectors in Vietnam and Timor-Leste, and horticultural development in northern Australia.
Jeffrey Neilson adalah ahli geografi asal Australia yang mengajar di University of Sydney. Selama lebih dari tiga dekade, ia telah meneliti dan bekerja di Indonesia. Bidang penelitian yang digelutinya sangat beragam, mulai dari ketahanan dan kedaulatan pangan, industri kopi dan kakao-cokelat global, gerakan reformasi agraria, penghidupan berkelanjutan, hingga tata kelola lingkungan. Ia telah menerbitkan lebih dari 40 artikel jurnal ilmiah dan bab buku. Karya-karyanya dikenal luas dan sering menjadi rujukan dalam penelitian di berbagai negara. Jeff fasih berbahasa Indonesia dan pernah melakukan riset etnografi dalam jangka waktu panjang di Toraja, Sulawesi. Di luar Indonesia, ia juga melakukan riset lapangan di India dan menulis buku bersama Bill Pritchard berjudul Value Chain Struggles: Institutions and Governance in the Plantation Districts of South India. Saat ini, ia tengah terlibat dalam berbagai proyek riset, termasuk studi tentang sektor kopi di Vietnam dan Timor-Leste, serta pengembangan hortikultura di wilayah utara Australia.
