Social Protection in Emergency Situations

Tilman Brück

Director, International Security and Research Center

Professor Tilman Brück is the Founder and Director of ISDC - International Security and Research Center in Berlin and Team Leader of Development Economics at IGZ – Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Germany. He is also the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the „Households in Conflict Network” (HiCN). Professor Brück's research interests focus on the economics of household behaviour and well-being in conflict-affected and fragile economies, including the measurement of violence and conflict in household surveys and the impact evaluation of peace-building programs in conflict-affected areas and of humanitarian assistance. He was previously Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and Professor of Development Economics at Humboldt-University of Berlin. He obtained his doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford.

Sheree Bennett

Technical Advisor, International Rescue Committee

Sheree Bennett currently serves as a Technical Advisor within the Research, Evaluation and Learning Unit at the International Rescue Committee (IRC). She is a part of the Evidence to Action team and leads the organization’s strategy for increasing the use of evidence in programmatic and policy decisions within the organization and the broader humanitarian sector. She also supports the IRC’s Client Voice and Choice Initiative, which seeks to improve the organization’s responsiveness to the preferences, needs, desires and expectations of the populations the IRC serves. In her previous role at the IRC, she worked with academic experts to design and manage impact evaluations for governance programs in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia and Zimbabwe. Ms. Bennet’s background is in comparative politics, empirical methods and social psychology. She holds degrees from Yale University.

Fabio Veras Soares

Research Coordinator, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth

Fábio Veras holds a PhD in Economics from University College London (2004). He is currently one of the Research Coordinators of the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG). He is on leave from the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea). He has worked with impact evaluation of cash transfers programmes in countries such as Brazil, Paraguay, Mozambique and Yemen. He has had his work published in the Journal of Development Effectiveness and the Latin American Research Review, and has written book chapters on the comparative analysis of cash transfer programmes.

Paolo Verme

Sr. Economist, World Bank HQ

Paolo Verme is Senior Economist at the World Bank. A Ph.D. graduate of the London School of Economics, he was Visiting Professor at Bocconi University in Milan (2004-2009) and at the University of Turin (2003-2010) before joining the World Bank in 2010.