Biography
Melissa is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Monash GPS. Her doctoral dissertation, “The Political Economy of Gender Intervention: Social Forces, Kinship, Violence, and Finance in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste”, accounts for the uneven outcomes of gender programming by international development agencies. Previously, Melissa has worked for the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) on Asia-Pacific development, and for Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE) on European Union programs to protect women from severe intimate partner violence.
