{"id":5723,"date":"2023-02-16T01:20:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T01:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/?page_id=5723"},"modified":"2023-02-16T01:20:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T01:20:13","slug":"alexander-oriordan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/blog-authors\/alexander-oriordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander O’Riordan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” custom_padding=”|||2px||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2023\/02\/Alex.png” alt=”author name” title_text=”Alex O’Riordan” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” max_width=”200px” border_radii=”on|50%|50%|50%|50%” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||40px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]

Alexander O\u2019Riordan<\/span><\/h1>\n

UNHCR Consultant<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

Alexander O\u2019Riordan is a policy dialogue, development effectiveness and political economy consultant. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics focusing on the Political Economy of Donor Allocations of Aid and has over two decades experience advising and supporting the EU, UK\u2019s FCDO USAID and UN systems as well as having worked as an advisor on policy dialogue and development effectiveness to ministries of finance (or their equivalent) in Kenya, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Lao PDR and others.<\/span><\/p>\n

His research speciality is mapping power systems and how they shape developmental policy planning with the goal being to design influence strategies to change them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alex is also associate faculty at Royal Roads\u2019 School of Human Security and Peacebuilding, teaches and supervises graduate students.<\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#f4f4f4″ custom_padding=”42px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”1px|||||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]

Blog posts by Alex<\/h2>\n

<\/a>Collecting data on the forcibly displaced is essential for better inclusion<\/a><\/a><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexander O\u2019Riordan UNHCR ConsultantAlexander O\u2019Riordan is a policy dialogue, development effectiveness and political economy consultant. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics focusing on the Political Economy of Donor Allocations of Aid and has over two decades experience advising and supporting the EU, UK\u2019s FCDO USAID and UN systems as well as having worked as an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":0,"parent":3003,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5723","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5723"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5855,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5723\/revisions\/5855"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}