Padmini Iyer

Padmini Iyer is a researcher working on livelihoods, conflict, migration and development in the East and Horn of Africa. She was previously the Senior Research Coordinator for the Research and Evidence Facility of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for the Horn of Africa.

Padmini’s recent research is on mobility in the context of climate change, cross-border community resilience and the link between vocational education and training and conflict and migration outcomes among young people in the Horn of Africa. She has also worked in the Great Lakes Region (Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi) on peace and conflict issues.

Padmini holds a doctorate in anthropology from Rutgers University New Brunswick. Her doctoral dissertation investigated social networks of risk management among male and female herders in Karamoja, Uganda. At Feinstein, she has collaborated on the Karamoja Resilience Support Unit and Nawiri related research activities, working closely with Elizabeth Stites.