35 Best International Development Podcasts

1. Devex

News, analysis and business insights from Devex, the media platform for the global development community.
Podcast soundcloud.com
Email ****@devex.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 164.4KTwitter Followers 103.1KInstagram Followers 9.7K Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 33 min Since Jan 2018 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. World Bank - The Development Podcast

The Development Podcast brings together the latest data, research and cutting-edge solutions that can pave the way to a sustainable future everything from poverty to climate change, education to nutrition, and a whole lot more. We'll take you on a journey around the world of international development in this World Bank's flagship monthly podcast. More information: http://wrld.bg/f2SX50MJyZB
Podcast worldbank.org
Email ****@WorldBank.org
Apple Rating 4.5 / 5Facebook Followers 2.7MTwitter Followers 3.6MInstagram Followers 1.1M Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 28 min Since Jan 2020 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

3. Harvard Center for International Development

The Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University is a university-wide center that works to advance the understanding of development challenges and offer viable solutions to problems of global poverty. CID is Harvard's leading research hub focusing on resolving the dilemmas of public policy associated with generating stable, shared, and sustainable prosperity in developing countries.
Podcast soundcloud.com
Email ****@hks.harvard.edu
Apple Rating 4.5 / 5Facebook Followers 17.3KTwitter Followers 15.9K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 32 min Since Sep 2016 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

4. In Pursuit Of Development

If you are interested in democracy, governance, poverty eradication, and climate change, this is your go-to podcast development. This podcast will enable you to examine development interventions critically. It will also help you better understand how 'promising' policies, programs, and practices can be deployed in a range of international contexts.
Podcast in-pursuit-of-development.simplecast.com
Email ****@sum.uio.no
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 887Twitter Followers 1.6K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 50 min Since Jun 2020 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

5. VoxDev Development Economics

Hear about the cutting edge of development economics from research to practice.
Podcast audioboom.com
Email ****@timphillips.co.uk
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 10.3K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 26 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

6. Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice

The Cutting Edge series provides students and guests with fascinating insights into the practical world of international development. Renowned guest lecturers share their expertise and invite discussion on an exciting range of issues, from climate change policy, to pressing humanitarian crises. In 2020, the series took place online, enabling us to host fantastic speakers from around the world and to stream the lectures on YouTube, opening them up to a global audience. Now we are back in person but still recording the sessions to share with our global audience.
Podcast lse.ac.uk
Email ****@lse.ac.uk
Apple Rating 5 / 5Instagram Followers 4K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 99 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

7. ODI live events

Live recordings of events from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), an independent, global think tank, working for a sustainable and peaceful world in which every person thrives. Our events cover everything from climate change and migration to gender and the Sustainable Development Goals. Join the global discussion of international development and humanitarian issues.
Podcast soundcloud.com
Email ****@odi.org
Facebook Followers 80.1KTwitter Followers 136.5K Frequency 4 episodes / month Avg Length 81 min Since Feb 2015 Play Get Email Contact

8. Africa Science Focus

Africa Science Focus offers weekly insight into the impact that science is having on health, technology and agriculture in Africa. Produced by SciDev.Net, the world's leading source of news, views and analysis about science and technology for global development.
Podcast buzzsprout.com
Email ****@scidev.net
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 70.2KTwitter Followers 26.4KInstagram Followers 699 Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 31 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

9. InAsia

What does international development really mean? Hosts John Rieger and Tracie Yang take us on a journey to meet the people on the ground shaping Asia's future.
Podcast asiafoundation.org
Email ****@asiafoundation.org
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 122.4KTwitter Followers 29KInstagram Followers 16K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 21 min Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

10. Candid Conversations

Welcome to Catalyst McGill's International Development podcast. We speak to students and faculty in the world of international development studies, gaining perspective on global events.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 324Twitter Followers 27Instagram Followers 529 Frequency 2 episodes / quarter Avg Length 26 min Since Mar 2021 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

11. This Week in Global Development

Every week we break down the big headlines in global development and bring in top experts to help us do it. Hosted by Raj Kumar, President and Editor-in-Chief of Devex. Episodes are streamed live on Twitter Spaces on Fridays and published here on Mondays.
Podcast spreaker.com
Email ****@devex.com
Facebook Followers 164.9KInstagram Followers 10.3K Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 31 min Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact

12. Good Will Hunters

Join us as Rachel Mason Nunn explores the nuanced world of international development by talking to experts and game-changers whose voices and work are critical to radically transforming the sector and our communities for the better. Listen in and be prepared to hear from incredible people who push us to rethink international development, and how we can create meaningful and long-lasting change.
Podcast goodwillhunterspodcast.com.au
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 847Twitter Followers 362 Frequency 2 episodes / month Avg Length 40 min Since Jun 2018 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

13. DevDispatch Podcast

The DevDispatch Podcast is your gateway into the latest and most relevant knowledge and information in the global development and social change sector. With each podcast, DevDispatch aspires to deliver to its listeners carefully curated information and important insight from development publications to advance social change on the continent.
Podcast developmentdispatch.com
Email ****@developmentdispatch.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Twitter Followers 462Instagram Followers 347 Frequency 2 episodes / year Avg Length 34 min Since Jan 2020 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

14. Global Development Institute Podcast

Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester: where critical thinking meets social justice. In each episode, they will bring you the latest thinking, insights, and debate in development studies.
Podcast soundcloud.com
Email ****@manchester.ac.uk
Facebook Followers 11.1KTwitter Followers 13.6K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 44 min Since Jul 2017 Play Get Email Contact

15. Diaspora in Development

The Diaspora and Development Podcast is a place where men and women of the African, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American diaspora working in international development can discuss issues that impact the developing world and their careers.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 39 min Listen on Spotify Play Get Email Contact

16. Improving Development Evaluation

Join Dr. David Wand as he takes you on a provocative, investigative journey challenging international development organizations to improve their performance measurement frameworks (PMFs). In part 1 of the episode, Dr. Wand will introduce you to an international development organization and one of its projects where flaws in their PMF will be identified. In part 2, the international development organization and evaluation experts will be invited to discuss Dr. Wand's critique and offer solutions to improving the evaluation of the project.
Podcast rss.com
Email ****@gmail.com
Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 27 min Play Get Email Contact

17. D-Views

Welcome to D-Views, a podcast series brought to you by the Glocal International Development program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Glocal translates academic research into a practical understanding of community development - an approach empowering communities in need across the world to prosper and succeed.
Podcast glocaldviews.podbean.com
Email ****@mail.huji.ac.il
Facebook Followers 3.3K Frequency 4 episodes / year Avg Length 35 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

18. The IPDA Podcast

The podcast of the International Development Association. For discussion around research and practice on professional learning.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Twitter Followers 2.3K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 14 min Since Nov 2020 Play Get Email Contact

19. Growth Lab Podcast

Led by Ricardo Hausmann, the Growth Lab at Harvard's Center for International Development works to understand the dynamics of growth and to translate those insights into more effective policymaking in developing countries. The Growth Lab places increased economic diversity and complexity at the center of the development story and uncovers how countries move into industries that offer increased productivity.
Podcast growthlab.hks.harvard.edu
Email ****@hks.harvard.edu
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 17.3KTwitter Followers 7.8K Frequency 4 episodes / quarter Avg Length 30 min Since Nov 2016 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

20. The Blue Continent Podcast

Veteran journalist and international development expert Brennan Pürtzer hosts interviews with global innovators addressing issues the world over.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Email ****@bluecontinentalliance.net
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 40Twitter Followers 36 Since May 2020 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

21. Rethinking Development Podcast

Long-form, personal conversations with international development and humanitarian aid practitioners, thinkers, activists, academics, and more. Conversations center on lived experiences and reflections on ethical issues, power dynamics, systemic challenges, and lessons learned. Common themes: redistributing power, working with diverse stakeholders, negotiating partnerships, measuring impact, learning from mistakes, doing no harm, building trust, ensuring accountability, rejecting savior complexes, racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination, and much more
Podcast rethinkingdevelopmentpodcast.com
Email ****@rethinkingdevelopmentpodcast.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 1KTwitter Followers 582Instagram Followers 1.2K Since May 2019 Listen on Apple Get Email Contact

22. History of Global Development

The Center for the History of Global Development is a research focus established at the College of Liberal Arts at Shanghai University. Through conferences, workshops, publications, and discussion panels, the Center seeks to contribute to interdisciplinary scholarly debates on the repercussions of development as a phenomenon that has shaped much of recent global history while remaining conceptually vague or contradictory.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Email ****@posteo.net
Facebook Followers 268Twitter Followers 44Instagram Followers 144 Since Oct 2020 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

23. Studies in National and International Development Podcast

Studies in National and International Development (SNID) is the longest-running weekly, interdisciplinary seminar series at Queen's University. Since 1983, SNID has proudly hosted prominent Canadian and international scholars who bring fresh perspectives to issues of local, national, and global development. Here, this podcast series features audio footage of lectures from the SNID seminars.
Podcast podcast.cfrc.ca
Email ****@cfrc.ca
Frequency 2 episodes / year Avg Length 77 min Since Oct 2019 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

24. Small Changes

Small Changes is a podcast series of one-on-one interviews with people who've seen a problem in the world and set out to change it often in small and unexpected ways.
Podcast theguardian.com
Email ****@theguardian.com
Facebook Followers 8.5MTwitter Followers 10.1MInstagram Followers 5.7M Since Jan 2011 Listen on Spotify Get Email Contact

25. Global Development Review Podcast

The purpose of this podcast is to engage with global development issues and to understand how the development of policies, practices and politics contributes or challenges social justice delivery. The idea of this show is to have a dialogue with marginalized groups, experts, activists, researchers, among others, and to critically reflect and discuss the wide range of challenges that our world is facing today. This includes political, social, economic, and environmental justice issues.
Podcast shows.acast.com
Email ****@gmail.com
Facebook Followers 5.9KTwitter Followers 151 Frequency 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 41 min Since May 2021 Play Get Email Contact

26. Development Unboxed

A show provides rich conversations around the journeys of young people thriving in the international development space. With a focus on the Global South, stories will be curated through guest interviews to inspire, educate, and give insights on the to-do for living purposeful, intentional and fulfilment.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Email ****@gmail.com
Instagram Followers 42 Frequency 4 episodes / year Avg Length 31 min Play Get Email Contact

27. International Development, Where Now?

Podcast by Oxford Policy Management
Podcast soundcloud.com
Email ****@opml.co.uk
Frequency 1 episode / year Avg Length 26 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

28. The Development Dilemma

Lets talk about the elephant in the room: the world of international development is run by two actors, expats and nationals, who don't seem to talk. They work in the same organisations with similar goals but expats fly in and out carrying a sense of superiority and nationals become disgruntled and disillusioned with their work.
Podcast afripods.africa
Email ****@gmail.com
Facebook Followers 2.7KInstagram Followers 4.6K Frequency 5 episodes / year Avg Length 42 min Play Get Email Contact

29. The new IDeal

Hello everyone! The new IDeal is a podcast created by four International Relations academics so we could bring International Development analysis to everyone! Hope you enjoy it!
Podcast spreaker.com
Email ****@gmail.com
Instagram Followers 87 Since Jan 2021 Play Get Email Contact

30. Global Pursuit Podcast

This podcast is to inspire young people to contribute to tackling global challenges!
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Email ****@umontana.edu
Facebook Followers 129Instagram Followers 231 Since Feb 2021 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact