PhD candidate, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
I am an economist working within the humanitarian-development nexus. My publications focus on the socioeconomic lives of refugees and those hosting them in East Africa. For my PhD (2023–), I am studying food systems in refugee-hosting contexts in the same region.
My professional background includes the University of Oxford, the Tanzanian government (through ODI), UNICEF, and FAO. In my interdisciplinary research and project management roles across Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Tanzania, I have witnessed the value of research for improved decision-making and the many remaining data gaps. This motivates my academic work, in which I strive to fill such gaps to inform policies.
I hold a double master’s degree in economics (The Norwegian School of Economics) and international management (CEMS), have completed further coursework on experimental methods with MIT/J-PAL, and have taught quantitative methods at the graduate level at Oxford.