Building Evidence on Forced Displacement

Amir is an assistant professor in political science at the University Mohamed VI Polytechnique in Rabat, Morocco. He completed his PhD in computational political science at the University of Toronto (Canada) and worked on refugee resettlement with the Lebanese Embassy in Cote d’Ivoire in 2011.

Research Topic: Pandemic and Attitudes toward Refugees in Turkey: Testing the Contact Theory

Chinedu is a research associate at the University of Pisa, Italy. His research interests include international migration, force displacement, poverty and food security in developing countries.

Research Topic: The Impact of Hosting Arrangement (camp vs out-of-camp) on the Quality of Life of Refugees--The Case of Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Hundanol is a recent graduate from University of Virginia. His fields of research include trade, applied micro, and development.  Currently he is a fellow on Forced Displacement under World Bank Development Economics Research Group (DECRG)

Research Topic: The Effects of Refugees on Child Health in Host Communities: Evidence from Ethiopia

Javier Parada is an agricultural economist specialized in the application of econometric methods for big data analysis. His research interests lie at the intersections of conflict, agricultural productivity, and poverty. He is currently working on measuring land use changes in fragile countries with satellite imagery.

Research Topic: Land Use Change Induced by Conflict and Displacement along the Syria-Turkey Border 

Merve Demirel is a Ph.D. candidate at Bilkent University, Turkey, and has a master’s degree in Mathematics. Her current research interest focus on economics of education, labor economics, and migration

Research Topic: Dynamic Effects of the Refugee Influx on the Turkish Labor Market and Understanding the Employment Preferences of Refugees.

Mrittika Shamsuddin teaches Development Economics at the Dalhousie University in Bangladesh. She has a PhD from Georgetown University and her research focuses on the effects of social protection programs, labor markets, migration decisions and assimilation.

Research Topic:  Integration of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Brazil 

Leila Aghabarari started her career with the World Bank’s Development Economics Group. She has a PHD from in Economics from Italy, with her thesis focus on banks’ lending during the financial crisis. Currently, Leila is a fellow with World -UNHCR Joint Data Center.

Research Topic: Surfing the Inclusiveness of Financial Opportunities for Refugees

Nelly El-Mallakh holds a Ph.D. in Economics and a Master's in Development Economics from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.   Her research interests include migration, development, labor economics, and political economy.

Research Topic: Shocks, Migration, and Labor Markets in West Africa

Eugenie Rose Fontep is an economist whose research is mainly focused on how human capital accumulation, labor market characteristics, and exogenous shocks such as conflicts and pandemics, can have persisting consequences over generations.

Research Topic: Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 on Refugees and Host Communities in Kenya

Nfamara K Dampha  holds a Ph.D. in Climate Change and  Natural Resource Economics from the University of Minnesota. His research interests include global migration studies, climate change policy, natural resource economics, GIS-based remote sensing applications, and disaster risk reduction. Currently, he is a fellow with World -UNHCR Joint Data Center..

Research Topic: Costs and Benefits of Hosting Over 1 million Refugees: A Natural Capital Accounting Approach in Bangladesh

Solomon Zena Walelign is Postdoctoral Fellow at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and a Visiting Scholar at University of California Berkeley. He completed a double Ph.D. in Environmental and Resource Economics at University of Copenhagen and in Forest Sciences at Georg-August University of Göttingen. His research focus includes livelihoods, poverty, largescale land transaction, refugee-host community relationship, and climate change resettlement.

Research Topic: Livelihood Impacts of Refugees on the Host Communities in Ethiopia

Sosso Feindouno holds a PhD in Economics from the Cerdi (University of Auvergne), a Master’s (M.Sc.) degree in Statistics and Econometrics from the Toulouse School of Economics.  His research focuses on Currently, he is a fellow with World -UNHCR Joint Data Center.

Research Topic: IDPs, Ethnic Balance and Conflict in the Sahel Region  

Trong-Anh Trinh is a PhD in economics at RMIT University in Australia  His research interests include  applied microeconomics, with a focus on economic impacts of climate change and development economics.

Research Topic:  Diluted Blood Still Better than Water?  The Beneficial Effects of Politicians’ Birthplaces on Refugee  Acceptance and Foreign Aid

Yeshwas. Admasu is researching Gender Dimensions of Forced Displacement research program, where he examines the gender differences in access to resources and opportunities for restoring livelihoods among refugees in Ethiopia. His main research interests are in development economics and labor economics, with a special focus in applying impact evaluation techniques. He is a PhD from Heriot-watt University in United Kingdom, and MSc in Economics from the University of Copenhagen.

Research Topic: Forced displacement, Gender differences and Livelihoods:  Refugees in Ethiopia