I am currently a Social Protection Policy Officer in the Universal Social Protection Department of the International Labour Organization. I am one of the lead authors and co-coordinators of the ILO’s World Social Protection Report. I also work on promoting social protection for children where I have worked closely with Save the Children and UNICEF to develop the Global Child Benefits tracker. Previously, I worked for UNICEF’s Social Inclusion and Policy Section, for BRAC and the International Social Security Association. Prior to my UN career I worked as a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and the University of Greenwich, where I taught political theory and sociology. My social policy research interests and publications have focused on social protection during the financial crisis and pandemic, universal child benefits, debates on graduation, child labour, universal basic income and emergency basic income. I hold a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Northampton and a Master’s degree in Critical Theory from the University of Nottingham. My academic interests have focussed on post-Marxist thought, political ecology, and on the work of André Gorz and Zygmunt Bauman.
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