Inga Ingulfsen

Inga Ingulfsen is a research manager with the Global Partnerships team at Candid, where she supports the organization’s global programs, focused on developing quality research and building partnerships to strengthen global data and knowledge on philanthropy, as well as connecting the philanthropy sector to the broader development ecosystem to ultimately achieve more effective development outcomes.

Inga comes to Candid with a background in government, international development, and research. She received her MS degree in Global Affairs from New York University, focusing on peacebuilding, gender, and migration. During her graduate studies, Inga worked for the United Nations in New York and Amman, supporting global policy development and research on conflict-related sexual violence and governance and peacebuilding in Middle East and North Africa. Her graduate thesis, “#RefugeesNotWelcome: Making Gendered Sense of Transnational Asylum Politics on Twitter,” earned her the 2016 Center for Global Affairs Outstanding Thesis Award and the Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on Gender and Human Rights, as well as an invitation to present her research to the Data & Research Department at UN Women. Inga received her BA in International Studies from the University of Oslo and has several years of experience working in public administration in Norway.