Bio

Marion Ouma is a Research Associate with the South Africa Research Chair Initiative (SARChl) on Social Policy at the University of South Africa, where she also completed her PhD.) Both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees are from the University of Nairobi. She is a two-time recipient of the Next Generation of African Researchers (2016 & 2017). She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Uppsala, Sweden. She has held visiting fellowships at NAI and the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Her research interests include social policy, social protection, policymaking, and the political economy of Africa’s development. She has published in Critical Social Policy, Africa Development, Journal of Development Studies, with book chapters in The Handbook of African Political Economy, Social Policy in an African Context, and Can Africans do Economics? She has written several op-eds, including in Africa Is a Country.