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Dr Kate Roll, Associate Professor and Head of Teaching at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), is a political scientist interested in how business, technology, and the state interact to improve the lives of the most vulnerable. Her multi-disciplinary work brings a focus politics and power to questions such as 'who gets what after war?' and 'how should corporations work with those in poverty?' Committed to grounded research, she has conducted fieldwork in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Kenya. She currently leads research at IIPP focussing on the sustainable development goals (SDGs), with a particular interest in issues of financing and conflict (SDG16) and taxation and SDGs.Kate holds a BA in International Relations (honors, Phi Beta Kappa) from Brown University, and both an MPhil in International Development Studies (distinction) and DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford. She has taught both undergraduate Empirical Politics and Management Studies at the University of Oxford, and she continues to teach Innovation Strategy at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. In 2019 she led the launch of IIPP's flagship MPA in Innovation, Public Policy and Public Value at University College London, where she leads the module entitled Power, Politics, and Systems Change.

Listed skills include Research, Policy Analysis, International Development, Qualitative Research, and 9 others.