Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Ketty Anyeko, who joined the University of British Columbia's School of Public Policy and Global Affairs as Advisor, Global Policy Projects! Dr. Anyeko now manages the Global Policy Project, a capstone project for second-year MA students of the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA) program at UBC. She worked remotely in the new position beginning in late July and moved to Vancouver by September 1st.
Anyeko was a postdoctoral fellow supervised by Professor Kamari Clarke from 2022 to 2024 and further served CrimSL as research and policy analyst and sessional instructor until 2025.
She is an interdisciplinary scholar and a practitioner of justice, peacebuilding, gender, and policy. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from UBC and an MA in Peace Studies from Notre Dame University. She is the founder of Ketty’s Consults. Her current research focuses on children born of wartime forced pregnancy in Uganda; the International Criminal Court; and domestic violence against Black and other racialized women in Canada. Ketty is a co-investigator, working with Principal Investigators Professors Pilar Riaño-Alcalá and Erin Baines of UBC, on a 5-year SSHRC Partnership Grant on transformative memory, an international collaboration of artists, scholars, practitioners, activists, community leaders and violence survivors from Canada, Colombia, Indonesia, Peru, Northern Ireland and Uganda. She also serves on boards of non-profit organizations around the world, such as the Gender Tech Initiative and the Women's Advocacy Network, both in Uganda.
Anyeko previously worked with the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) affiliated with the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Simon Fraser University (SFU). She has two decades’ experience in project planning and implementation, leadership, and strategic planning for various institutions. She previously conducted action research, policy advocacy and documentation with conflict-affected communities through non-profit organizations in Uganda. She has engaged with conflict-affected communities, justice advocates, government leaders, politicians, NGOs, sociolegal and policy makers in Uganda, Canada, Philippines, Cambodia, and the United States, among others.
Her latest paper "“Love on top of mercy”: complex decision making among women who survived wartime forced marriage in Northern Uganda," was published in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
The CrimSL community is proud of Anyeko's achievements and we wish her continued success in the future!