Laura Del Duca is a Research Associate at SEI Headquarters in Stockholm and part of the Rights and Equity Team in the Resources, Rights and Development Division.

A social scientist with a quantitative background, her research interests include gender and power in emergencies, environmental justice and disaster risk reduction, and at the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. She is part of SEI’s global Initiative on Gender Equality, Social Equity and Poverty.

She holds a master’s degree in gender and development (distinction) from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and Italian studies from Smith College. Her master’s thesis discussed gender equality in the immediate humanitarian response to rapid-onset crises with displacement, focusing on the 2010 flooding in Pakistan.

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