Stephanie is the Director for Programme Design and Impact at BRAC’s Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI).

Stephanie leads an international team of graduation and governance experts who, in partnership with our country teams, provide technical advice and support to our Government partners designing and implementing large-scale, quality graduation programmes. Through this work, she is leading efforts to distil lessons and key insights from across contexts on how Governments design and implement graduation programmes for scale.

Stephanie is a social policy and governance specialist with extensive experience in designing and implementing policy reform and poverty reduction programmes across Africa and Asia. Before joining BRAC, Stephanie led Oxford Policy Management (OPM)’s work in Poverty and Social Protection and was the Country Director for OPM in South Africa.

She holds an MPhil in Comparative Government and a BA in History and Politics, both from the University of Oxford.