Jessica Hagen-Zanker

Jessica Hagen-Zanker is a Senior Research Fellow leading ODI’s migration research. Her research focuses on migration and development, migration decision-making, the links between migration and social protection, the humanitarian-development nexus as well as the analysis of social protection programmes and policies.

Jessica has designed and delivered numerous household surveys and has extensive mixed methods data collection experience in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, as well as expertise in systematic literature reviews. Jessica has advised numerous governments and international organisations and has led policy analysis and contributed to policy dialogue in high-, middle- and low-income countries, including the UK, India, Jordan and Nepal.

Jessica holds a PhD in Public Policy from Maastricht University. She is also a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).