# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ilan-kapoor
# Generated: 2026-09-02T04:20:07.318Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ilan-kapoor"
name: "Ilan Kapoor"
slug: "ilan-kapoor"
description: "Ilan Kapoor is a professor of Critical Development Studies at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an influential postcolonial scholar, considered the first to bring both psychoanalysis and postcolonial analysis to the field of Development Studies. He is the author of seven books and numerous articles on postcolonial politics, psychoanalysis, participatory development, and celebrity humanitarianism. In 2025, Kapoor was inducted as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada."
tagline: "Canadian academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prof._Ilan_Kapoor.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.01
  momentum:             16.18781725888325
  historical:           1.573005333333334
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Kapoor"
    title: "Ilan Kapoor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5997021"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations