Current Senior Fellow
Current Senior Fellow
Areas of Focus: Gender and Health; Women's Leadership
Dr. Rochelle Walensky is the former Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and a renowned expert exploring the challenges and gifts of what it means for leaders, organizations, and the world to protect public health.
Current Research Fellows
Current Research Fellows
Areas of Focus: Gender and Conflict
Angie Torres-Beltran is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Her research interests include gender, violence, political participation, state-society relations, and justice in Latin America and the US.
Area of Focus: Work and Gender Equity
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is an award-winning Ghanaian-American researcher, entrepreneur, and writer. Currently, she is a graduate student at Harvard Kennedy School studying public policy and economics.
Areas of Focus: Work and Gender Equity
Dr. Cansın Arslan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Her current research focuses on the gender pay gap and diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Area of Focus: Work and Gender Equity
Joan Martínez is a PhD candidate in Economics at UC Berkeley. She works on topics in labor, discrimination, education economics, and applied econometrics.
Area of Focus: Work and Gender Equity
Justus Bamert is a PhD candidate in economics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He works on topics in labor and education economics, with a focus on the gender imbalance in STEM study fields.
Areas of Focus: Gender and Conflict
Dr. Keshab Giri (he/him/his) holds a position as a tenure-track Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include women combatants, intersectionality, gender and war, and violent extremism.
Areas of Focus: Work and Gender Equity
Nadja Born is a PhD candidate in Organizational Behavior at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University. Her research focuses on biases towards women in leadership and entrepreneurship, interventions addressing workplace inequality, and gendered communication.
Areas of Focus: Gender and Conflict; Work and Gender Equity
Pinar Keskin is an Associate Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, where she studies the complex economic and social factors contributing to domestic violence, a widespread problem with significant health and economic consequences.
Areas of Focus: Work and Gender Equity
Shibeal O' Flaherty is a PhD Candidate in Public Policy at King's College London. Her research focuses on behavioral science applications to workplace well-being.
Former Research Fellows and Leaders in Practice
In past years, the WAPPP Research Fellowship Program and our retired Leaders in Practice Program have brought together a diverse set of people—from doctoral, post-doctoral, and faculty to leaders from the public, private and non-profit sectors—and supported their studies related to gender.
Former Research Fellows
- Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, PhD candidate in public policy and economics, Harvard Kennedy School
- Joan Martínez, PhD candidate in economics, UC Berkeley
- Justus Bamert, PhD candidate in economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Sandra Portocarrero, Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Faculty of Business, Columbia Business School
- Senem Ertan, Associate Professor of political science, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey
- Shibeal O' Flaherty, PhD Candidate in public policy, King's College London; Research Associate, What Works for Children's Social Care
- Saika Belal, PhD candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California Berkeley
- Logan Berg, Joint Research Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program and Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
- Sebawit G. Bishu, Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado, Denver
- Anne Boring, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Nadja Born, PhD candidate in Organizational Behavior, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
- Christelle Comair, Doctoral Researcher, Université Paris-Saclay
- Elif E. Demiral, Assistant Professor of Economics, Austin Peay State University
- Phoebe Donnelly, Visiting Fellow, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University
- Senem Ertan, Associate Professor of political science, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey
- Rachael Goodwin, PhD candidate in Management, University of Utah
- Tanushree Goyal, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
- Marc Grau-Grau, Assistant Professor of Social and Family Policies, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya; Researcher and ChildCare and Family Policy Chair, UIC
- Christiana Kelly, PhD candidate in Education, Culture, and Society, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
- David Klinowski, Visiting Assistant Professor of Marketing and Business Economics, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
- Lucia Macchia, Lecturer at City, University of London; Visiting Fellow in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics
- Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Department of Economics, Northeastern University; Associate Director, Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy
- Javaeria Qureshi, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Deniz Sanin, PhD candidate in Economics, Georgetown University
- Logan Berg, Joint Research Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program and Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
- Sebawit G. Bishu, Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado, Denver
- Elif E. Demiral, Assistant Professor of Economics, Austin Peay State University
- Phoebe Donnelly, Visiting Fellow, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University
- Rachael Goodwin, PhD candidate in Management, University of Utah
- Marc Grau-Grau, Assistant Professor of Social and Family Policies, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya; Researcher and ChildCare and Family Policy Chair, UIC
- David Klinowski, Visiting Assistant Professor of Marketing and Business Economics, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
- Lucia Macchia, Lecturer at City, University of London; Visiting Fellow in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics
- Inmaculada Macias-Alonso, Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School and Department of Economics at the University of Chicago
- Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Department of Economics, Northeastern University; Associate Director, Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy
- Nishith Prakash, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Connecticut; Research Fellow, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London
- Javaeria Qureshi, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Laura Sjoberg, British Academy Global Professor of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London; Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
- Martina Viarengo, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies of Geneva
- Julia B. Bear, Associate Professor, College of Business, Stony Brook University
- Sebawit G. Bishu, Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado, Denver
- Manuela Collis, Research Associate, Harvard Business School; Research Chair, Behavioral Insights Student Group (BISG), Harvard Kennedy School
- Amal El Sana, Executive Director, International Community Action Network (ICAN), McGill University
- Marc Grau-Grau, Assistant Professor of Social and Family Policies, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya; Researcher and ChildCare and Family Policy Chair, UIC
- Brit Grosskopf, Professor of Economics, University of Exeter Business School
- Ivona Hideg, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Organizational Leadership; Lazaridis School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
- Inmaculada Macias-Alonso, Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School and Department of Economics at the University of Chicago
- Nishith Prakash, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Connecticut; Research Fellow, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London
- Leonora Risse, Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University, Australia
- S Anukriti, Assistant Professor of Economics, Boston College; Research Affiliate, Institute for Labor Economics (IZA)
- Marc Grau-Grau, Assistant Professor of Social and Family Policies, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya; Researcher and ChildCare and Family Policy Chair, UIC
- Sa-kiera Hudson, PhD candidate in Social Psychology, Harvard University
- Siri Isaksson, PhD candidate in candidate in Economics, Stockholm School of Economics
- Melanie Khamis, Associate Professor of Economics, Wesleyan University; Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security
- Inmaculada Macias-Alonso, Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School and Department of Economics at the University of Chicago
- Jessica Pan, Associate Professor of Economics, National University of Singapore; Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- Jessica Preece, Associate Professor in Political Science, Brigham Young University
- Chiara Trombini, Lecturer of Organization and Management, Luiss Business School
- Clémentine Van Effenterre, Research Affiliate, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics
- Ghazal Zulfiqar, Assistant Professor, Suleman Dawood School of Business, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
- Katie Beavan, Managing Director, UBS Investment Bank; PhD candidate, Bristol Business School, University of West England
- Marc Grau-Grau, Assistant Professor of Social and Family Policies, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya; Researcher and ChildCare and Family Policy Chair, UIC
- Sa-kiera Hudson, PhD candidate in Social Psychology, Harvard University
- Siri Isaksson, PhD candidate in candidate in Economics, Stockholm School of Economics
- Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security
- Henriette Kolb, Head of the Gender Secretariat, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
- Shira Mor, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Public Policy, Tel-Aviv University
- Chiara Trombini, Lecturer of Organization and Management, Luiss Business School
- Clémentine Van Effenterre, Research Affiliate, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics
- Jia Xue, PhD candidate in Social Welfare, University of Pennsylvania
- Renata Camara, Captain, United States Army
- Eliana Carranza, Senior Economist, Jobs Group, The World Bank
- Ana Catalano Weeks, College Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University
- Laura Gee, Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University
- Alyson Gounden Rock, Joint Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program and Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
- Marc Grau-Grau, Assistant Professor of Social and Family Policies, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya; Researcher and ChildCare and Family Policy Chair, UIC
- Emma Heikensten, PhD candidate in Economics, Stockholm School of Economics; Fellow, Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences (SEAS)
- Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security
- Ariella Kristal, PhD candidate in Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business School
- Shira Mor, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Public Policy, Tel-Aviv University
- Sally Nuamah, Join Postdoctoral Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School and Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University
- Anna Raute, Assistant Professor of Economics; University of Mannheim; Research Fellow, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, University College London
- Elizabeth Singer More, Associate Director, Open Circle Jewish Learning, Hebrew College
- Chiara Trombini, Lecturer of Organization and Management, Luiss Business School
- Georgina Waylen, Professor of Politics, University of Manchester, UK; Co-Director, Feminism and Institutionalism International Network (FIIN)
- Anita Gohdes, Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program and International Security Program at Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
- Emma Heikensten, PhD candidate in Economics, Stockholm School of Economics; Fellow, Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences (SEAS)
- Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security
- Fidan Ana Kurtulus, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Vera Mironova, Joint Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program and International Security Program at Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
- Laura Sjoberg, British Academy Global Professor of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London; Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
- Bobbi Thomason, Senior Fellow and Lecturer, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
- Kathrin Zippel, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Northeastern University
- Victoria Brescoll, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Business
- Seletha Butler, Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheller College of Business
- Amanda Clayton, Postdoctoral Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin
- Pinar Fletcher, PhD candidate in Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business School
- Margaret Jenkins, Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Research Associate, Institute of Women, Peace and Security, Georgetown University
- Jeni Klugman, Managing Director, Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security
- Zoe Marks, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Liza Mügge, Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department, University of Amsterdam; Associate Director, Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender & Sexuality (ARC-GS)
- Albena Neschen, Professor of Business Ethics, University of Applied Sciences of the Industry (FHDW) Bergisch-Gladbach; Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Management, University of Cologne
- Elisabeth Prügl, Professor of International Relations, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies of Geneva; Director, Geneva Graduate Institute Gender Centre
- May Al-Dabbagh, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, New York University, Abu Dhabi
- Victoria Brescoll, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Business
- Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, Join Postdoctoral Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School and Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
- Joanna Everitt, Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of New Brunswick, Saint John
- Stephen Frost, Head of Diversity and Inclusion, London Organising Committee, Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Ltd.; Founder and Principal, Frost Included
- Berit C. Gerritzen, PhD candidate in Economics and Finance, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Julia J. Lee, PhD candidate in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Zoe Marks, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Maliheh Paryavi, PhD candidate in Political Economy and Government, Harvard University
- May Al-Dabbagh, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, New York University, Abu Dhabi
- Lakshmi Balachandra, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Babson College; Visiting Lecturer, Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, Join Postdoctoral Fellow, Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School and Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
- Stephen Frost, Head of Diversity and Inclusion, London Organising Committee, Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Ltd.; Founder and Principal, Frost Included
- Laura Kray, Professor and The Ned and Carol Spieker Chair in Leadership, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
- Daniel Manne, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ethics and Public Life, Cornell University, Sage School of Philosophy
- Maliheh Paryavi, PhD candidate in Political Economy and Government, Harvard University
- Petra Persson, Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University
- Miriam Schwartz-Ziv, Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance, Michigan State University
- Olga Shurchkov, Assistant Professor of Economics, Wellesley College
- Alexandra van Geen, Assistant Professor of Finance, Erasmus School of Economics
- Martina Viarengo, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies of Geneva
- Le Wang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies, University of Alabama
- May Al-Dabbagh, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, New York University, Abu Dhabi
- Lakshmi Balachandra, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Babson College; Visiting Lecturer, Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Paula Caplan, Research Associate, Harvard University, DuBois Institute; Director; Voices of Diversity Project
- Kathleen Coyne-McCoy, campaign strategist; Principal, KCM Consulting
- Sreedhari Desai, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flager Business School
- Julian Jamison, Senior Economist, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Research Associate, Innovations for Poverty Action
- Katja Kaufman, Professor of Economics, Universitá Bocconi
- Pinar Keskin, Assistant Professor of Economics, Wellesley College
- Daniel Manne, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ethics and Public Life, Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University
- Maliheh Paryavi, PhD candidate in Political Economy and Government, Harvard University
- Olga Shurchkov, Assistant Professor of Economics, Wellesley College
- Alexandra van Geen, Assistant Professor of Finance, Erasmus School of Economics
- Martina Viarengo, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies of Geneva
- May Al-Dabbagh, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, New York University, Abu Dhabi
- Paula Caplan, Research Associate, Harvard University, DuBois Institute; Director; Voices of Diversity Project
- Kathleen Coyne-McCoy, campaign strategist; Principal, KCM Consulting
- Sreedhari Desai, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flager Business School
- Julian Jamison, Senior Economist, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Research Associate, Innovations for Poverty Action
- Pinar Keskin, Assistant Professor of Economics, Wellesley College
- Maliheh Paryavi, PhD candidate in Political Economy and Government, Harvard University
- Laura Sjoberg, British Academy Global Professor of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London; Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
- Alexandra van Geen, Assistant Professor of Finance, Erasmus School of Economics
- Martina Viarengo, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies of Geneva
Former Leaders in Practice
- Nancy Birdsall, Senior Fellow and President Emeritus at the Center for Global Development
- Nancy Birdsall, Senior Fellow and President Emeritus at the Center for Global Development
- Farai Chideya, host, creator, and CEO of Our Body Politic
- Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto, Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico (2013-2020), Harriet L. Weissman and Paul M. Weissman distinguished fellow in leadership at the Weissman Center for Leadership, Spring 2022 Hauser Leader at the Center for Public Leadership
- Deepa Purushothaman, author of The First, the Few, the Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America; Co-Founder of nFormation; U.S. Board Member of the Avasara Leadership Institute
- Rati Thanawala, Founder of the Leadership Academy for Women of Color in Tech; 2018 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University
- Nancy Birdsall, Senior Fellow and President Emeritus at the Center for Global Development
- LaTosha Brown, Co-Founder of Black Voters Matter Fund and BVM Capacity Building Institute; 2020-2021 Hauser Leader at the Center for Public Leadership
- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, former Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women
- Deepa Purushothaman, author of The First, the Few, the Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America; Co-Founder of nFormation; U.S. Board Member of the Avasara Leadership Institute
- Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at HKS; faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Hillary Rodham Clinton Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
- Rati Thanawala, Founder of the Leadership Academy for Women of Color in Tech; 2018 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University
- Nancy Birdsall, Senior Fellow and President Emeritus at the Center for Global Development
- Ashley Judd, leader of the #MeToo movement; founding member of TIME's UP; Global Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, former Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women
- Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at HKS; faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Hillary Rodham Clinton Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
- Nancy Birdsall, Senior Fellow and President Emeritus at the Center for Global Development