Emily Hillenbrand

Emily Hillenbrand, PhD., is a Gender Advisor with over 15 years of experience in development work, specialising in gender-transformative approaches, GT research and monitoring and evaluation, and gender capacity building.

Emily is a sociologist of global development, with a focus on intersectional inequalities in rural transformations. Her research and program implementation experience focuses on understanding, catalyzing, and measuring gender-transformative change in agrifood systems.

She has managed multi-county programs and research initiatives, and possesses in-depth expertise in participatory action research, ethnography, and gender-transformative monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) approaches. She researches masculinities, conflict, and gender-based violence; gender-transformative MEL; as well as how complex social innovations (including GTA) scale through the agriculture research for development system.