Laura Del Duca is a Policy Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute HQ. Her work focuses on crises, preparedness and humanitarian response, particularly on how differential vulnerabilities and power shape crisis impacts and responses. She works across policy analysis and systematic evidence synthesis, with an interest in how timely, rigorous evidence can support decision-making in rapidly evolving crises and under conditions of uncertainty.

Her current research examines the relationship between international development cooperation and national security policy. Her work has addressed crisis preparedness and planning in humanitarian and environmental contexts, water and sanitation, and health-related dimensions of environmental change. She has led strategic policy engagement for SEI’s Gender Equality, Social Equity and Poverty (GESEP) Initiative and serves as a Peer Review Assistant Editor at SEI.

Laura holds an MA in Humanitarian Action and Conflict from Uppsala University and an MA in Gender and Development from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex. She holds a BA in Mathematics from Smith College. She has completed additional academic training in health and disasters at Karolinska Institutet.

External publication

Del Duca, L., Tripp, J., Tymoczko, J. and Wang, J. (2018). RNA, local moves on plane trees, and transpositions on tableaux. Involve, 11 (3) 383 – 411. http://doi.org/10.2140/involve.2018.11.383