Kristen McCollum

Kristen McCollum is a Doctoral Research Fellow at J-PAL Europe, where she supports the Humanitarian Protection Initiative. 

Prior to joining J-PAL, Kristen worked in the impact evaluation unit at the World Food Programme. She has also conducted research with Oxfam and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation. Her research interests include the use of experimental methods to improve humanitarian action in contexts involving forced migration.

Kristen is a DPhil candidate in Migration Studies at the University of Oxford, supported by an Advanced Quantitative Methods award, and holds an MSc in Impact Evaluation from the University of East Anglia.