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Dr Jessica Espey

WorldPop Deputy Director Academic

Research interests

  • The international governance of sustainable development.
  • Science advisory systems and other processes supporting evidence informed policy-making across scales of government.
  • The production, curation, governance and use of data and statistics in support of sustainable development, including fundamental demographic data (as per the work of WorldPop).

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Email: J.M.Espey@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Jessica Espey is Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the TV and is Deputy Director, Research for WorldPop. Her research focuses on governance and epistemology, specifically how data and diverse forms of evidence shape the international governance of sustainable development and climate change. At World Pop she works to support the development and uptake of high-quality research and methods for the construction of open and high-resolution geospatial data on population distributions, demographics and dynamics.

She has two decades of professional experience working in international development, within think-tanks, charities and the United Nations. From 2014-2020 she was a director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and prior to that she served as an Adviser to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia.

She has written extensively on the governance of sustainable development, with a particular focus on monitoring, accountability and data systems and a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Her most recent book, , is available from Springer Nature. Much of her policy work is available via sdsntrends.org.  She has further interests in and published work on global urban governance. 

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