Data4Development
Research Team Leaders: Samantha Jorgensen and Joseph Flores
Faculty PI: Dr. Kate Weaver
Faculty PI: Dr. Kate Weaver
Data4Development aims to answer big questions concerning shifts in global power and its consequences for the governance of world economy and socioeconomic development. This year, we will focus on the continuation of data collection, analysis and write up of the Representative Bureaucracy in Global Development project. This project entails gathering primary, longitudinal data on staffing in global development agencies on key demographic variables to both provide empirical evidence on how representative these bureaucracies actually are, and to analyze whether (and how) passive representation turns into active representation. This project will be interesting to students who are interested in global governance, IO cultures and behavior, transparency and accounting in institutional reform, and issues surrounding equity, diversity and inclusion in complex institutions. Students will have an opportunity to contribute to the original dataset, as well as conference papers and published articles, blog posts and op-eds. We also welcome students who may want to help Dr. Weaver look for grant funding and write grant proposals to expand this project.
Research Team Leaders
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Samantha Jorgensen is a second-year graduate student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. She is pursuing her MA in Global Policy Studies with a focus on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) for global development. Her research interests also include the use of data for development, especially as it relates to gender and the SDGs. This past summer she worked as an MEL Fellow at MIT D-Lab, evaluating the outcomes of D-Lab projects in Soroti, Uganda. She is originally from Minnesota and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Political Science and Latin American Studies. Prior to graduate school, she worked in Monitoring & Evaluation at the Millennium Challenge Corporation and also served as an AmeriCorps member in Minneapolis. After graduation, she hopes to continue working at the intersection of M&E, open data, and development.
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Joseph Flores is a first-year graduate student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs pursuing a Master's in Global Policy Studies. His area of focus is in migration policy and global governance, and research interests include responses to migration flows, development, and coordination between States. Joseph graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in International Relations and Global Studies, specializing in International Security and Latin American studies. After graduating, Joseph served as a Franklin H. Williams Fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington DC, interning with their International Institutions and Global Governance program and assisting with the Council of Councils initiative. Since returning to Austin, Joseph has spent the past few years working in project management with several consulting firms in the city. After graduation, Joseph hopes to continue his work in migration policy, focusing on Latin American migration with the hopes of generating policy insights applicable across the globe.
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Research Team