Ottavia joined the IFS in 2022 and works in the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policy (EDePo). Ottavia’s research interests focus primarily on human capital development in developing countries, with her main current project evaluating early childhood education policies in Ghana. Prior to joining the IFS, she worked as a researcher on an IGC and PEDL-funded research project on workers’ and firms’ resilience to the COVID-19 shock in Uganda.