Karin Christiansen

Karin Christiansen is the Director of Publish What You Fund.  Prior to setting up Publish What You Fund she worked as the Policy Manager at the ONE campaign and for six years as Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute. Her policy and research specialisms include aid, donor behaviour, aid effectiveness and reform – particularly from a recipient country perspective.  She joined ODI having worked as an Economist at the Rwandan Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture.  Prior to that Karin worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Catholic Relief Services in Croatia. She studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics as an undergraduate, and has Masters degrees in Development Economics and in Social and Political Thought.