Shelby Carvalho is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University with the King Center on Global Development in the Institute for Economic Policy Research. She is an affiliate of the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health and a non-resident scholar with the Refugee REACH Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Shelby studies comparative politics, social policy, and political economy of development with a regional focus on Africa. Her academic interests are shaped by more than a decade of professional and policy experience with the World Bank, UNHCR, the Education Commission, the Center for Global Development, among others.