Assistant Professor in Public Policy at Durham University (School of Government and International Affairs)
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I am Omar Hammoud-Gallego, a political and social data scientist, currently Assistant Professor in Public Policy at the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. Prior to joining Durham, I have been a Fellow in Political Science and Public Policy at the LSE School of Public Policy. My research focuses on migration and refugee policies, as well as on the challenges to democratic legitimacy. I hold a PhD from the Department of Government at the LSE.
I am also an affiliated fellow at the IDRC Chair on Migration and Displacement at the Universidad del Pacífico, Peru, and I have been a visiting fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research.
Recently, I have co-led a team of researchers for the Civic Data Innovation Challenge, funded by the Greater London Authority and the LSE, in a joint initiative with the Migrant Democracy Project. Additionally, as part of my continuous engagement with civil society and international organisations, I have co-authored a report on corruption in Ghana for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), co-authored a report on the representativeness of local politicians in London, and another report on civic and democratic engagement in London, as part of the NGO The3Million. I have also contributed to the ‘Global Democracy Insight for Cabinet Office’ project, based at the University of Cambridge.
Before joining the LSE, I worked as a consultant at the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Italy and I have also worked for the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Colombia, among others.
My research has been published or is forthcoming on academic journals such as the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, World Development, and International Migration Review.
For any questions concerning my research, or for media inquiries, write to omar.hammoud-gallego[at]durham.ac.uk
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Academic Interests
Migration and Asylum
Public Policy
Latin America
Comparative Politics
Challenges to Democracies