Ngang Fru Delvis

Ngang Fru Delvis is pursuing an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at the University of Oxford. He is a Mastercard Foundation AfOx Scholar at Linacre College.

Fru is a specialist in monitoring, evaluation, research, and data science with extensive experience in forced displacement contexts. He has worked with organisations such as Swansea Asylum Seekers Support (SASS), Community Vision Group, Refugee-Led Research Hub, Action Against Hunger, Plan International, and the Pan African Institute for Development. He also serves as a monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) specialist for the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and UK-Med, and sits on the trustee boards for SASS, Swansea City of Sanctuary, and the Cameroon Society of English-Speaking Evaluators (CamSEE).

Fru holds an MSc with distinction in Impact Evaluation for International Development from the University of East Anglia, an MSc in Data Science from Swansea University, and a BSc in Sustainable Development from the Pan African Institute for Development. As a Non-Resident Fellow at the Centre for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley, Fru conducts research on the use of satellite imagery and deep learning to generate poverty indicators for development policy impact evaluation.

After completing his studies at Oxford, Fru plans to contribute to policy, research, and programme interventions that improve the lives of forcibly displaced people, with a focus on big data and machine learning applications in conflict and violence contexts. He also aims to pursue a DPhil in Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation.