Caitlyn McGeer

Caitlyn McGeer is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Caitlyn is a Primary Investigator on a British Academy ODA International Interdisciplinary Research Projects funded project called Gender and Digital Repression: The Practice and Toll of Digital Repression on Women in the Authoritarian Turn. Her research interests deal with gender and technology, human rights, and security.

Caitlyn is a gender and qualitative impact evaluation/assessment expert, particularly focusing on (in)security in Sub-Saharan Africa. As a strategic development specialist, she has worked extensively on local, national, and transnational-level projects across sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. She has held senior management and front-line roles for various non-governmental, governmental, and United Nations entities. Caitlyn currently leads on qualitative impact evaluations and assessments related to gender and food insecurity for the Social Protection & Jobs Global Practice of the World Bank in Ethiopia.

Caitlyn holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where she worked in Nigeria to assess how law enforcement agencies operationalize the United Nations protocols on trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants. She lectures on qualitative methods and law/sociology/criminology topics at the University of Oxford and the University of Toronto.