Profiles
Elsa Valli
Consultant
Elsa Valli joined the Social and Economic Policy Unit at the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti as a consultant in January 2017. She contributes to producing policy-relevant evidence mostly through impact evaluations of social protection and cash transfer programmes. Her research interests lie in poverty and vulnerability, children and adolescents’ wellbeing. In the past she worked on research projects for Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, European Union, UNRWA, USAID, and Institute of Development Studies (IDS) on poverty dynamics, food security, nutrition, agriculture, social protection and education mostly on Sub-Saharan countries but also Middle East, India and Latin America. Elsa was awarded a PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex on issues related to development economics, focusing on social protection in Ethiopia