Amber Peterman is an associate research professor at the University of North Carolina and a social policy consultant at the UNICEF Office of Research — Innocenti, working with the transfer project on large-scale evaluations of government social protection programs. Her research focuses on issues related to gender and development, including women’s economic empowerment and gender-based violence. Amber holds in Ph.D. in public policy and previously worked as an assistant research professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington D.C., Kampala, and Dakar.