Policy Analyst

Karen, a poverty specialist, joined the GMR team in February 2009. The majority of her research focuses on understanding the intersections between childhood, youth, intergenerational, life-course and chronic poverty, and policies to interrupt these, primarily in South Asia. Prior to joining the GMR, Karen worked as a Research Associate with the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, a UK Department for International Development-funded international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs; she was based first at the University of Birmingham and then at the University of Manchester. She holds a BA (Hons) in International Development from the University of Toronto, and an MSc in Development Studies from the University of Bath.