During my career, I have worked from either side to connect research with practice and policy spheres in the pursuit of data-driven and impact-based solutions to global problems and in particular ambitions to end extreme poverty in all its forms.I am currently working as a senior economist within the World Bank, Washington DC. My ambition is to conduct analysis on the interplay between poverty and gender as well as poverty and climate change to inform policy decisions relating to the ambitious targets in SDGs 1, 5 and 13 in particular. I've previously worked as a senior chief advisor with the responsibility of allocation the annual Danish development aid budget within the Africa, Policy and Development department of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I've also worked as a regional counsel the Danish Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, nurturing Danish relations with regional organisations such as the African Union.I have a strong theoretical and methodological background combined with practical know-how of project implementation and program evaluation and have utilized this combination to develop policy recommendations. In my PhD I focused on quantitative methods and development issues with special emphasis on economic development in Africa and microfinance.