Tom Wein

Tom Wein is a director at IDinsight. He leads the Dignity Initiative there, building on research he has been doing since 2017. Tom has spent the past thirteen years leading research in the Global South. He has given evidence to the UK Parliament, and written several academic papers. He previously led Raising Voices' work to prevent violence against children in schools in Uganda. Before that, he worked with the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, where he built the CREME research agenda on...See more

Tom Wein is a director at IDinsight. He leads the Dignity Initiative there, building on research he has been doing since 2017. Tom has spent the past thirteen years leading research in the Global South. He has given evidence to the UK Parliament, and written several academic papers. He previously led Raising Voices' work to prevent violence against children in schools in Uganda. Before that, he worked with the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, where he built the CREME research agenda on culture, research ethics and methods, and led work on activism, civil society, and edutainment. Tom holds a master's degree in communication for development from Malmo University in Sweden, and an undergraduate degree in War Studies from King's College, London. He works to advance justice and create better governance through useful research, and believes research is most useful when it grapples with questions of power. He lives in Nairobi, Kenya, with his wife Rachel, son Oliver, and dog Bailey. See less