Dr Patrick Kilby is an Associate Professor (Adjunct) and Editor in Chief of the Journal Development in Practice. His research interests are: NGOs and NGO accountability; gender and development; managing international development programs; and women's labour migration. He has published four sole authored books on NGOs one dealing with women’s empowerment and Indian NGOs (2011), a history of the Australian Council for International Development (2015), gender and the Green Revolution (2019), and the role of Philanthropic Foundations in Development (2021).

In 2018 he took up Fulbright Senior Scholars Fellowship at Kansas State University looking at the history of the Green Revolution, and also to advise K-State on how to improve women’s engagement in their agriculture research in developing countries. In 2019 examined the role of philanthropic Foundations such as Rockefeller, Ford and Gates', in the foreign aid space, in 2020 UN agencies such as UNCTAD and others, and in 2021 and 2022 is part of a British Aid project with IFPRI looking at women migration from Bangladesh and Nepal to Lebanon and Jordan.  He also works with ACIAR looking at gender analysis in their agricultural research portfolio.  In 2022 he was elected as Secretary of the Development Studies Association of Australia.  Her retired from the Australian National University in February 2024.