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Older has more a decade of experience in humanitarian aid and development, ranging from field level experience as a Head of Office in Darfur to supporting global programs and agency-wide strategy as a disaster risk reduction technical specialist. In between she has designed and implemented economic development initiatives in post-disaster context; supervised a large and diverse portfolio as Director of Programs in Indonesia, and responded to complex emergencies and natural disasters in Sri Lanka, Uganda, Darfur, Indonesia, Japan, and Mali, in the last three as Team Leader.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://malkaolder.wordpress.com/publications/about/|title=About|date=2016-02-23|newspaper=Malka Older|language=en-US|access-date=2016-12-24}}</ref> |
Older has more than a decade of experience in humanitarian aid and development, ranging from field level experience as a Head of Office in Darfur to supporting global programs and agency-wide strategy as a disaster risk reduction technical specialist. In between she has designed and implemented economic development initiatives in post-disaster context; supervised a large and diverse portfolio as Director of Programs in Indonesia, and responded to complex emergencies and natural disasters in Sri Lanka, Uganda, Darfur, Indonesia, Japan, and Mali, in the last three as Team Leader.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://malkaolder.wordpress.com/publications/about/|title=About|date=2016-02-23|newspaper=Malka Older|language=en-US|access-date=2016-12-24}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 00:58, 9 March 2017
Malka Older is an author and humanitarian worker. She was named Senior Fellow for Technology and Risk at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs for 2015, and she has more than eight years of experience in humanitarian aid and development.[1]
Infomocracy, released in 2016, is her first novel, and is the first in the series The Centenal Cycle.[2] The second in the series, Null States, is due to be released in 2017.[3]
Education
Older has an undergraduate degree in literature from Harvard and a Masters in international relations and economics from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Johns Hopkins University.[4] She is currently a PhD candidate, and her doctoral work on the sociology of organizations at the Institut d’Études Politques de Paris (Sciences Po) explores the dynamics of multi-level governance and disaster response using the cases of Hurricane Katrina and the Japan tsunami of 2011.[5]
Career
Older has more than a decade of experience in humanitarian aid and development, ranging from field level experience as a Head of Office in Darfur to supporting global programs and agency-wide strategy as a disaster risk reduction technical specialist. In between she has designed and implemented economic development initiatives in post-disaster context; supervised a large and diverse portfolio as Director of Programs in Indonesia, and responded to complex emergencies and natural disasters in Sri Lanka, Uganda, Darfur, Indonesia, Japan, and Mali, in the last three as Team Leader.[6]
Bibliography
- Infomocracy (2016)
Awards and recognition
- Named one of Kirkus' "Best Fiction of 2016" [7]
- One of The Washington Post's "Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016" [8]
Notes
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References
- ^ "Malka Older". Tor.com. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
- ^ "Macmillan: Series: The Centenal Cycle". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
- ^ "Null States | Malka Older | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
- ^ "About". Malka Older. 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
- ^ "About". Malka Older. 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
- ^ "About". Malka Older. 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
- ^ "Best Fiction of 2016 | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
- ^ Hightower, Nancy (2016-11-16). "Best science fiction and fantasy of 2016". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2016-12-24.