Allison J. Anderson provides research and consulting related to international development, gender, technology & ICT4D, geopolitics, and the Middle East. She has conducted research and provided consulting for several private sector, government, and non-profit organizations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft, USAID, and several research groups at the University of Washington. Anderson recently completed her Ph.D. at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Her dissertation research focused on women’s economic participation through technology and entrepreneurship in the Jordanian political economy of development. It was based on fieldwork she conducted as a 2018-2019 Fulbright Research Fellow in Jordan. Anderson was previously at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where she focused on strategic planning and engagement in the Office of the President for Global Health. She also worked at Deloitte Consulting conducting political risk analysis. She served two years in the U.S. Peace Corps in rural Jordan. Other overseas experiences include researching the political economy at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut and studying Arabic at the American University in Cairo. Anderson received a Ph.D. from the University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where she studied Strategic Studies and International Economics. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Arabic & Islamic Studies from the University of Michigan.

International Relations/Affairs

Gender/Women's Studies

Technology

Development

All Middle East

Arabic (advanced)