reach out to Our CHILD POVERTY EXPERTS
John Cockburn
Scientific Adviser, Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)
Québec, Canada
Twitter: @pepnetwork
John Cockburn is Scientific advisor with the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) and Associate Professor at Laval University in Québec.
He completed a PhD at Oxford University (Nuffield College and the Centre for the Study of African Economies) in 2001 on child labour and schooling in rural Ethiopia and the poverty effects of trade liberalisation in Nepal.
John’s areas of specialization include child well-being, poverty/inequality analysis and CGE modeling. He has been providing training and technical support to developing country researchers throughout the developing world since 1990 and is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Microsimulations.
VIDYA DIWAKAR
Research Fellow / Deputy Director, Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, Institute of Development Studies
London, UK
Twitter: @vidya_diwakar
Vidya Diwakar is A Research Fellow and the Deputy Director of the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network, with over 10 years of experience working in development research at universities and think tanks.
Her mixed methods research focuses on education and empowerment of women and girls in sustained pathways out of poverty, and the role of armed conflict in creating poverty traps. Vidya has authored and reviewed journal articles, book chapters and reports on human development, conflict, and poverty dynamics in South and Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the MENA region. She has also led various policy-oriented multi-country, multi-year, and multi-partner research projects on poverty dynamics for international organizations and bi-lateral aid agencies.
Solrun Engilbertsdottir
Policy Specialist, Child Poverty
UNICEF Headquarters
New York, USA
Email: sengilbertsdottir@unicef.org
Sola Engilbertsdottir is a Social Policy Specialist at UNICEF Headquarters in New York and has 13 years of social policy and research experience with UNICEF, with a specific focus on child poverty.
She has extensive experience working and living in the East Africa region, in Kenya she supported a decentralized social budgeting initiative and the development of the Kenyan social protection strategy. With UNICEF Rwanda she managed the first ever Rwandan multidimensional child poverty analysis and the evaluations of a child sensitive social protection pilot and an integrated ECD programme.
Sola provided research and policy advocacy support to over 50 countries participating in a Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities, an initiative which ran from 2008 to 2011. She currently supervises UNICEF’s child poverty efforts, including support to UNICEF country offices and translating child poverty evidence into policy action. Prior to joining UNICEF Sola was a social worker in her native country, Iceland.
Sola holds an MPA from Columbia University.
David Lambert Tumwesigye
Global Policy & Advocacy Lead for Child Poverty
Save the Children International
Kampala, Uganda
X: @dltum
David Lambert Tumwesigye is the Global Policy & Advocacy Lead for Child Poverty at Save the Children International and leads child-sensitive social protection advocacy within the Global Policy Advocacy and Campaigns Team.
David has extensive experience in social protection policy development, programme management and evidence-based advocacy. He was Policy & Advocacy Advisor at Uganda’s Expanding Social Protection Programme, supporting delivery of technical assistance to develop Uganda’s national social protection system. He has also provided advisory support to World Food Programme, Irish Aid and World Bank capacity strengthening initiatives to enhance food security and shock-responsiveness of Uganda’s social protection system. Previously, David supported ILO, DFID and UNICEF’s work on the design of programmes to extend child-sensitive social security coverage in Ghana.
David is a graduate of Maastricht University’s MSc in Social Protection Financing and holds a BA Economics degree from Makerere University.
Richard Morgan has worked in international development for over 4 decades with a strong focus on children’s rights, food security, social policy, poverty reduction, and social protection. His experience includes 21 years working in Eastern and Southern Africa, including as a civil servant in Botswana and as head of UNICEF emergency programs in Mozambique. He later provided leadership for UNICEF in Policy and Practice and for Save the Children International on child poverty.
Richard was a founder member of the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty and is currently the global lead for Nutrition International on Social Safety Nets. He has an MA in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia.
Richard Morgan
Practice Area Lead for Social Safety Nets, Nutrition International
Maryann Broxton
Main Representative to the United Nations, International Movement ATD Fourth World
Boston, US
Maryann Broxton is the Main Representative to the United Nations for the International Movement ATD Fourth World and has been an ATD Fourth World Activist for over ten years.
She draws on her personal and professional experience to explore best practices for organizations in setting the conditions for people impacted by poverty to share their knowledge on an equitable footing with other actors. As the US coordinator for the Multidimensional Aspects of Poverty (MAP) participatory research, she has spoken at the OECD and the World Bank, to share the dimensions of poverty beyond a monetary standard. She has developed and facilitated trainings on equitable participation and the MAP results for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the Center for Law and Social Policy, and the Aspen Institute, along with social worker students at the New School in New York, Harvard, Columbia, and Fordham University.
Maryann holds a B.A. from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sabina Alkire
Professor of Poverty and Human Development and Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
Oxford, UK
Email: sabina.alkire@qeh.ox.ac.uk
X: @ophi_oxford
Sabina Alkire is the Professor of Poverty and Human Development and directs the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford. Previously, she worked at the George Washington University, Harvard University, the Human Security Commission, and the World Bank. She has a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford.
Together with Professor James Foster, Sabina developed the Alkire-Foster (AF) method for measuring multidimensional poverty, a flexible technique that can incorporate different dimensions, or aspects of poverty, to create measures tailored to each context. With colleagues at OPHI this has been applied and implemented empirically to produce a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The MPI offers a tool to identify who is poor by considering the range of deprivations they suffer. It is used to report a headline figure of poverty (the MPI), which can be unpacked to provide a detailed information platform for policy design showing how people are poor nationally, and how they are poor by areas, groups, and by each indicator.
Sabina was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK 2021 and was voted one of the top 100 thinkers by Forbes magazine in 2010.
Enrique Delamónica
Senior Adviser Statistics and Monitoring (Child Poverty and Gender Equality) Data & Analytics Section, Division of Data, Analytics, Planning & Monitoring, UNICEF
New York, US
Email: edelamonica@unicef.org
Enrique Delamónica, the UNICEF Statistics and Monitoring Senior Adviser for Child Poverty and Gender Equality, was Social and Economic Policy Regional Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean and Chief of Social Policy and Gender Equality in Nigeria.
He has written and co-edited books and articles on economic development, children’s rights, social protection, macroeconomic trends impacting on children, socioeconomic disparities, the green economy, quality of life, social exclusion and discrimination, and financing social services - always focused on improving the lives of children, adolescents, and their families.
He has advanced degrees in political science and economics. He has taught economic principles, macroeconomic policy, international development, policy analysis, statistics, and research methods at, among other places, Columbia University, the New School for Social Research, and Saint Peter’s College (New Jersey). He is at the board of the Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare, and Social Policy of the International Sociological Association.
David Gordon
Professor of Social Justice and the Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research and the Bristol Poverty Institute at the University of Bristol
Bristol, United Kingdom
Email: Dave.Gordon@bristol.ac.uk
David Gordon was a member of the UN Expert Group on Poverty Statistics (Rio Group) and contributed to its ‘Compendium of Best Practice in Poverty Measurement’. He advised the United Nations Department for Economic & Social Affairs (UNDESA) on poverty and hunger issues amongst young people (aged 15 to 24) and contributed to the 2005, 2007 and 2009 World Youth Reports. He worked with UNICEF on its first ever Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities, providing scientific advice and support to over 50 UNICEF country offices. Professor Gordon was also an international advisor for the development of the official multidimensional poverty measure in Mexico and has advised the New Zealand and UK Governments on poverty measurement and anti-poverty policies. He led the Poverty and Social Exclusion in the United Kingdom project, which was the largest project of its kind in UK history. In 2018, the European Union adopted its first measures of child deprivation based upon the work of Professor Gordon and his colleagues.
In 2006 and 2007, he was given the tremendous honour of addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations about child and youth poverty. In 2009, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA) and in 2018, he had the honour of being elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) for his work on poverty research.
Ana Lucia Kassouf
Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and a research fellow at PEP (Partnership for Economic Policy)
Email : anakassouf@usp.br
Ana Lucia Kassouf is a Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and a research fellow at PEP (Partnership for Economic Policy).
Ana has extensive experience in using econometric models to analyze large data sets with focus on child and youth labor, education, health and social programs. She has served as a consultant several times for the International Labor Organization, Understanding Children Work, Unesco, and the World Bank.
She has held three post-doctoral positions, two at the London School of Economics and one at the University of Minnesota and obtained her Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota.
Jane Kabubo-Mariara
Executive Director, Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)
Nairobi, Kenya
X: @JMariara
Email: jane.mariara@pep-net.org
Professor Jane Kabubo-Mariara is the Executive Director of the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP). She has been a long-serving Professor of Economics at the University of Nairobi, and previously served as Director of the School of Economics at the University of Nairobi. Jane is a member of the Central Bank of Kenya’s Monetary Policy Committee and has also previously served on the Board of the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. She is a member of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Advisory Board and President of the African Association of Ecological Economists (ASEE).
Jane’s key research interests include Poverty, Labour markets and Income distribution issues, with emphasis on multiple dimensions of child poverty and youth employment, the Impact and Adaptations of Climate Change on Agriculture; and Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. She has previously consulted for the World Bank, IDRC, AERC, PEP, and CEEPA among other institutions.
She holds a B.A, M.A. and PhD in Economics from the University of Nairobi.
YEHUALASHET MEKONEN
Programme Manager, African Child Observatory, The African Child Policy Forum (ACPF)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Yehualashet Mekonen is the Programme Manager of the African Child Observatory at the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), a pan-African centre for policy research and advocacy on children.
Mr. Mekonen has worked for more than 20 years in policy research, programme management and development of research tools and methodologies. He developed the Child-friendliness Index of African governments, a quantitative framework for measuring government’s performance in realising the rights and wellbeing of children. This composite Index is being used as an advocacy tool to promote greater commitment to children in Africa and beyond.
Mr. Mekonen is also the lead author of the African Report on Child Wellbeing series, a flagship biennial publication of ACPF that monitors the extent to which African governments are living up to their obligations to international and regional child rights laws. He has authored and co-authored numerous papers, articles and reports focusing on issues related to children. Before joining ACPF, Mr. Mekonen was the Team Leader of Researchers at the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia. As an Independent Consultant, he has also served several non-governmental organisations, UN agencies and private firms in undertaking surveys and data analysis on a range of social, economic and governance related issues.
Alberto Minujin
Founder and Executive Director, Equity for Children, The New School
New York, USA
Email: minujina@newschool.edu
Alberto Minujin is a professor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School, with a special focus on topics related to social policy and children's rights.
He serves as Executive Director of Equity for Children and Equidad para la Infancia, The New School. He is a member of the Latin American Observatory (OLA). Until 2005, Professor Minujin was senior program officer for policy analysis in the Division of Policy and Planning of UNICEF Headquarters, New York.
Prof. Minujin is the editor and author of books: "Global Child Poverty and Well-being. Measurement, concepts, policy and action"; "Social Protection Initiatives for Children, Women, and Families: An Analysis of Recent Experiences" that focus in the experiences around the world on cash and in-kind transfers to poor families; and "Poverty and Children: Policies to Break the Vicious Cycle (2006)", that discusses concepts, measurement and policies related to children living in poverty.
Yukiko Yamada Morovic
Technical Director of External Engagement and Programming, Livelihoods at World Vision International
Email: yukikoyamada_morovic@wvi.org
Yukiko is Technical Director of External Engagement and Programming, Livelihoods at World Vision International. She provides strategic leadership on World Vision’s Savings for Transformation programmes and environmental management and climate resilience work in collaboration with World Vision’s Disaster Management Cash and Voucher Programming team and VisionFund, World Vision’s microfinance network.
She joined World Vision in 2020 as the Senior Policy Advisor for Child Poverty and Vulnerability with a specific focus on climate action and child sensitive social protection to address child poverty and vulnerability.
Yukiko has been working in the field of international development for over 15 years. Before joining World Vision, Yukiko worked for ChildFund Alliance serving in a variety of roles, including policy advocacy, external engagement, and programming, in both development and humanitarian contexts, covering multiple countries in Asia, Central America and West Africa.
Yukiko holds an MSc in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and is based in Barcelona, Spain.
Gabriel Crespo is the Associate Director of Equity for Children, a child poverty research center housed at The New School University in New York.
He oversees program areas including project design and implementation, and strategic communications. His research focuses on social policies for the reduction of poverty and inequality in urban contexts to develop evidence-based advocacy tools and key messages to inform policy.
Gabriel has a Human Rights Law degree (LL.B) from Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. He received an M.A. in International Affairs from The New School. He is a certified project manager, with training in monitoring & evaluation, and experience in design methodologies to ensure projects' measurable impact. He has ten years of professional experience in the private sector and NGOs.
chris de neubourg
Director of the Social Policy Research Institute
Broechem, Belgium
X: @spriglobal
Email: c.deneubourg@spriglobal.org
Chris de Neubourg is the Director of the Social Policy Research Institute (www.spriglobal.org ) and Professor of Public Policy Analysis at Tilburg University (NL). He was the founder and Academic Director of the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and Chief Social and Economic Policy Research at UNICEF Office of Research Innocenti. He has longstanding experience with projects and research oriented consultancies for UNICEF, the World Bank, UNDP, OECD and several bilateral donor agencies in Africa, Asia, Central Asia and Europe. He is specialized in and he published on (child) poverty analysis, social protection, public economics and labour economics.
FRED NYABERA
Director of the Interfaith Initiative to End Child Poverty, Arigatou International
Nairobi, Kenya
X: @NyaberaFred
Fred Nyabera is the director of End Child Poverty, a multi-faith, child centered, global initiative of Arigatou International that mobilizes faith-inspired resources to end child poverty. As a social scientist and trained theologian, Nyabera’s interest is in development and peacebuilding work.
He previously served as pastor at the Nairobi Baptist Church and Karen Community Church respectively; and the Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa (FECCLAHA), where he worked together with faith-based, civil society, government, inter-governmental and multilateral organizations to improve the wellbeing of communities in Eastern Africa by supporting accountable governance and promoting peace and security.
He holds B.A in Sociology and Anthropology; BD (MDiv equivalent); and post graduate studies in Conflict Transformation and Organizational Leadership.
Jacqueline Plaisir
Vice President, ATD Fourth World
Dakar, Senegal
Jacqueline Plaisir is Vice President of ATD Fourth World and a regional director for its projects in Africa.
Her experiences with people living in extreme poverty who faced the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, civil war in the Central African Republic, and other emergencies have informed her contributions to the World Humanitarian Summit, as well as her publications: Ravine of Hope, One Week in Port-au-Prince; Artisans of Peace Overcoming Poverty; Extreme Poverty Is Violence -- Breaking the Silence -- Searching for Peace; and a chapter in Child Poverty and Social Protection in Western and Central Africa, published by UNICEF and CROP.
She has also spoken at the Convergences World Forum on the Sustainable Development Goals.
KEETIE ROELEN
Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Development at the Open University
UK
Email: k.roelen@ids.ac.uk
Dr. Keetie Roelen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Development at the Open University.
She is a development economist by training and current research interests include the dynamics of (child) poverty, social protection and the linkages between child protection and social protection.
Keetie has worked with many international organisations such as UNICEF, FAO and Concern Worldwide, performing research and policy advice work in South East Asia, Southern and Eastern Africa and Central and Eastern Europe. She has quantitative and qualitative research skills and has designed and delivered lectures and training courses for Masters students, professionals, practitioners and policy makers. Her work has been published in the form of peer-reviewed journal publications and book chapters, working papers and project reports.
Diana Skelton
Member of National Coordination Team, ATD Fourth World UK
London, UK
Diana Skelton is part of the National Coordination Team at ATD Fourth World–UK.
Her publications include How Poverty Separates Parents and Children: A Challenge to Human Rights, Best Practices in Poverty Eradication: Case Studies from the Field, and Artisans of Peace Overcoming Poverty. She has contributed chapters to Child Poverty and Social Protection in Western and Central Africa, Agree to Differ, Forging Solidarity: Popular Education at Work, and Childhood Explorer.
She is on the advisory executive council of the Women Economic Forum and a regular speaker at Horasis: the Global Visions Community. Previously, she served: on ATD Fourth World's International Leadership Team; as chair of the thematic dialogues on eradicating poverty, NGO Forum for the Millennium Summit; as chair of the NGO Committee on Families; and as Vice-Chair of the NGO Committee for Social Development.
Jenn Yablonski
Chief of Child Poverty and Social Protection, UNICEF Headquarters
New York, USA
Email: jyablonski@unicef.org
Jenn is the Chief of the Child Poverty and Social Protection Unit at UNICEF HQ.
Over a 23-year career in international development, Jenn has worked on issues of social inclusion, inequality and economic justice, including over 17 years focusing specifically on child poverty and social protection. She brings applied knowledge of poverty and economic analysis, and extensive experience working on social protection systems and programmes in developing countries. Her work has also included leading and managing multi-stakeholder initiatives at the nexus of research and policy, for example as a founding member of the Transfer Project and as a partner in the Young Lives Project.
Jenn started with UNICEF as the first Social Protection Specialist in NY, before moving to the Ghana office as the Social Protection Unit Chief. More recently, she worked on beneficiary data management in the Humanitarian Cash Team, including provision of technical and surge support to humanitarian cash responses. Prior to joining UNICEF she led Save the Children UK’s Poverty and Economic Justice team, and worked for Oxfam in various roles. She holds an MSc in Economics from the School for Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
charlotte bilo
Child Poverty and Social Protection Consultant, UNICEF Headquarters
New York, USA
Email: cbilo@unicef.org
Charlotte joined the UNICEF HQ Social Policy team in 2023 where she works on the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty (co-chaired by UNICEF), including the organization of events and development of briefs. She also coordinates the SPIAC-B Working Group on Linking Humanitarian (Cash) Assistance and Social Protection.
Before joining UNICEF, she worked as a Research Analyst at the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) in Brasilia, where she led several research and technical assistance projects on child- and gender-sensitive social protection in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), South Asia and Latin America.
Charlotte holds an MA in Poverty and Development from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.
Olivier Thevenon
Economist, Social Policy Division, OECD
Paris, France
X: @othevenon
Email: Olivier.thevenon@oecd.org
Olivier Thevenon is an Economist at Social Policy Division at OECD.
He is currently coordinating OECD work on child well-being and child poverty, and is responsible for the OECD Child-Well-Being Data Portal. He is also a member of the French Haut Conseil de la Famille, which advises the government on reforms to be undertaken in the area of family and child policies. He conducts research on child and family policies and its impact on child, fertility, and labour market outcomes.
He has contributed to the development of the OECD family Database, and to Babies and Bosses, Doing Better for Families, Closing the Gender Gap, Dare to Share, Preventing Ageing Unequally.
Luca Tiberti
Research Co-Director - Micro Group, Professor, University of Florence Italy
Email: luca.tiberti@unifi.it
Luca Tiberti has a Ph.D. in development economics from the University of Florence (2008). His main research interests are applied microeconomics, poverty and socio-economic impact of climate shocks. He worked between 2008 and 2010 as a researcher at UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. After three years as a researcher at UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, he joined PEP and Laval University in January 2011. During his time at Laval, he has moved from post-doctorate researcher, to research fellow, assistant professor and, in 2021, associate professor. From November 2020, he is assistant professor at the University of Florence.
Luca Tiberti is the Co-Director of PEP's Microeconomic Analysis group, resource person and member of PEP's program committee. He is also the director of the PEP-Laval graduate microprogram (online courses) on Applied Development Economics.
He has published in journals such as Economic Journal, Economic Development and Cultural Change, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, World Development, Food Policy, Review of Income and Wealth, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Nutrition, Economics of Transition and Journal of African Economies.
Oliver FIALA
Senior Research Adviser, Save the Children
London, UK
Oliver Fiala is a Senior Research Adviser at Save the Children UK, leading the Research & Data Hub within the Global Policy, Advocacy and Research Department. His work covers a wide range of thematic areas, including child poverty, public finance, child health, education, and child protection. He also oversees the development of the Child Atlas, Save the Children's data platform to visualise child outcomes globally. Oliver holds a PhD in Economics from TU Dresden, Germany.
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Yolande Wright
Vice President, Partnerships, GiveDirectly
London, UK
Yolande is the Vice President pf Partnerships at GiveDirectly.
Before that, she was Global Director for Poverty Reduction, Climate Resilience and Urban, Save the Children International, where she led Save the Children’s global team on child poverty, the climate crisis and ensuring child wellbeing in an increasingly urban world.
Yolande has worked in international development for over 20 years, mainly for the UK government (formerly DFID) in a range of roles including as Head of the Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department (CHASE), and as Head of the Livelihoods Profession. She worked for over a decade in Africa and Asia – including in Bangladesh where she led some ground-breaking work on extreme poverty and climate change working with national and international partners – including BRAC, World Bank, UNDP and WFP.
Her particular experience is on child-sensitive and shock-responsive social protection, cash and ‘graduation’ approaches, as well as on climate adaptation and food security. She is passionate about a rights-based approach to social justice, gender equality and disability inclusion - ensuring every child can grow up and meet their full potential free from discrimination and deprivation, on a planet that can sustain and enhance their life and the life of future generations.
Her academic background includes an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford. She has also worked in consultancy and for the private sector.
David is an economist with 20 years of experience at international and country level, including policy and programmes. David worked on the Human Development Report between 1999 and 2005. He joined UNICEF in 2005, where he worked until 2023 on the State of World Children Reports, policy advocacy, child poverty, social protection and public finance. In his role as Chief of Child Poverty and Social Protection, he led UNICEF’s global advocacy on child poverty and social protection. David also oversaw the development of UNICEF’s guidance and frameworks to address child poverty and strengthen social protection, and worked on enhancing policy uses of child poverty measurement (both monetary and multidimensional) for social protection and beyond. He also led UNICEF’s Universal Child Grants initiative, exploring the practical approaches and challenges to implementing UCGs.
Silvia Paruzzolo
Global Director, Child Poverty Theme, Save the Children
Washington, DC, USA
X: @SParuzzolo
Dr. Silvia Paruzzolo is a social science economist with more than 15 years of global experience specializing in evidence generation, project management and capacity building on crosscutting issues related to social and economic empowerment.
In her current role as Global Head of Child Poverty she provides leadership advancing Save the Children’s child poverty priorities across contexts. She leads and supports efforts to strengthen program quality and impact for the poorest and most deprived children with a focus on policies and programs around child sensitive social protection, food security and livelihoods and transitions to decent work for adolescents and youth.
Silvia previously worked at the International Labour Organization where she led the Evidence Based Advocacy component of the Youth Entrepreneurship Facility in East Africa focusing on producing evidence of what works and ensuring impact at the policy level. She also worked as an Economist at the International Center for Research on Women providing technical support to projects on girls’ and women’s economic empowerment, especially around evidence creation and dissemination. While at the World Bank she managed a centralized knowledge platform, promoted strategic and rigorous evaluations of youth employment programs, provided operational and technical support to regional teams, promoted cross-fertilization across projects, identified knowledge gaps and disseminated lessons learned. Silvia holds a PhD in Public Administration and a Master of Science in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.
José Manuel Roche
Research Associate, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
Oxford, UK
X: @jomroche
Email: jomaroche@gmail.com
Dr. José Manuel Roche is an independent researcher and consultant with over 20 years of experience in child poverty, human development, poverty and inequality analysis working for governments, academia and civil society organizations. He has held various research and advisory roles for international agencies, international NGOs and national governments. José Manuel is currently Research Associate at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford where he is collaborating in a forecasting study of global multidimensional poverty and the potential impact of climate change.
He has published widely including co-authoring an OUP book on Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis, and a series of articles in international peer reviewed journals including: Monitoring child poverty, Leaving No One Behind under the Post-2015, Changes Over Time in Multidimensional Poverty among others.
As a Chevening Scholar, José Manuel completed doctoral studies from the University of Sussex in 2009. He has taught courses in the University of Oxford, University of Sussex, University College of London among others.