Molly Hickey

Molly is a Country Economist at IGC Jordan. She has spent over five years in Jordan conducting research on economic and public policy issues, with a particular focus on subsidy reform, social protection, and the political economy of governance in the Middle East. She previously lived in Beirut, where she worked with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA) on social protection policy. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked on USAID-funded projects across the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Jordan, where she researched the politics of Syrian refugee labor permits and professional labor market restrictions. She is completing her PhD in Government at Harvard University.