Emily Venturi

Emily Venturi is a DPhil candidate in International Development at the University of Oxford. Her research interests focus on forced displacement, socio-economic inclusion, labour markets, and refugee and migrant decision-making. Her work also speaks to broader themes, including public policies in displacement contexts and the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. For her doctoral project, Emily uses mixed methods to examine the preferences and experiences of displaced talent pursuing employment pathways. She is also developing a case study on labour mobility corridors for refugees in Italy. Her doctoral research is supported by a Global Grant Scholarship from the Rotary Foundation.

Emily holds a Masters in Global Affairs from Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar, and a BA in Political Science and Economics with Highest Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain Scholar.

Her research and teaching are motivated by real-world questions and aim to generate insights relevant to practitioners and displaced communities. As a result, she straddles academic and policy worlds as a scholar and humanitarian professional. Emily has worked with the UN Refugee Agency and REACH Initiative on data, refugee policies, and programming, with a particular focus on socio-economic inclusion. In these roles, she contributed to emergency responses in Ukraine, Sudan, and neighbouring countries. As an Academy Fellow at Chatham House, she produced analysis on migration and asylum in Europe and Asia for academic, policy, and press outlets.

Outside of work, she enjoys learning new languages, creative writing, photography, and cycling.