John Hammock

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ABOUT JOHN HAMMOCK

John Hammock is the co-founder of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford, a research and policy centre primarily focused on reducing poverty through the application of its innovative Multidimensional Poverty Index at the national and global level. Dr. Hammock is the Chair of SOPHIA Oxford, the first social spin-out of the University of Oxford, focused on taking the multidimensional poverty measure to the private sector. Dr. Hammock was an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He was founder of the Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts University. The Feinstein Center undertakes research and provides technical assistance in humanitarian emergencies. Dr. Hammock was President of Oxfam America for eleven years and served as Executive Director of ACCION International, an American charity that provides credit to micro-enterprises. He is the President of Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation. He has co-authored Practical Idealists: Changing the World and Getting Paid. He holds a doctoral degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Denison University. He was born in Havana, Cuba. He has two daughters and three grandchildren living in America.