Chi-Chi Undie

Based in Population Council’s International Programs Division in Nairobi, Kenya, Chi-Chi Undie is a senior associate providing intellectual leadership, strategic direction, management oversight, and technical support for the implementation of complex, regional research and intervention programs. Her research focuses primarily on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and girls’ education. For over a decade, she has directed the Population Council-led ‘Africa Regional SGBV Network’—a multi-country, multi-partner SGBV response and research initiative in the East, Horn, Great Lakes, and Southern regions of Africa. She is also the inaugural Board Chair of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative, the world’s largest network on research around violence against women and violence against children. She currently directs two five-year, regional research consortia, one on sexual and reproductive health and rights in refugee settings and the other on female genital mutilation/cutting, funded by the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.