Olivia Wilkinson
Global Health Institute
Olivia Wilkinson is a senior fellow with the Faith and Global Health Initiative at the Georgetown University Global Health Institute, particularly working on the Georgetown Commission on Faith, Trust, and Global Health and collaborating closely with the World Faiths Development Dialogue, a non-for-profit organization housed at Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Wilkinson is a researcher and adviser specializing in the roles of religions in the humanitarian and development sectors. She has led research around the world and developed research, strategies, and guidance for some of the most well-known humanitarian and development actors (such as the United Nations Children's Fund, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, World Bank Group, World Health Organization, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). She has a Ph.D. and master's degree in humanitarian action from Trinity College Dublin and Université catholique de Louvain, respectively, along with an undergraduate degree in theology and religious studies from the University of Cambridge.
Career Highlights:
- Wilkinson devised the State of the Evidence in Religions and Development report, published by the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, and regularly publishes her research as books, journal articles, and more.
- She published her book, Secular and Religious Dynamics in Humanitarian Response, with Routledge in early 2020.
- From 2018 to 2024, she worked with the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities as director of research and then chief technical officer.
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