Christelle Cazabat
Christelle Cazabat is the Research Manager in the Programmes department. She oversees the team’s engagement on different research programmes, including on internal displacement in the context of slow-onset disasters, on urban displacement, on the linkages between internal and cross-border displacement and on the socioeconomic impacts of internal displacement.
Christelle is the research lead for the thematic series ‘The ripple effect: economic impacts of internal displacement’ and ‘Hidden in plain sight: the differentiated impacts of internal displacement’. She studies displacement’s repercussions on livelihoods, housing conditions, education, health, security, social life and the environment, with a particular focus on children, youth, women and other groups of affected people with specific needs.
She has been working in international development since 2007 for the French Embassies in the Dominican Republic and in Cameroon, the United Nations Population Fund’s country office in Cameroon, the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean regional office in Egypt and headquarters in Geneva, and the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme in New York.
She holds a PhD from the University of the Sorbonne (Paris) on the role of civil society in development, for which she conducted 18 months of research in Cameroon. Christelle speaks French, English and Spanish.
