MARCO J HAENSSGEN
Development Research | Analysis | Evaluation | Education
CV and Portfolio
Find here more details about my educational and professional background, my research activities, and my academic outputs. A complete list is available as pdf via the button below:
Education
2012-2015
DPhil in International Development
University of Oxford
2010-2012
MPhil in Development Studies
University of Oxford
2006-2009
BSc in General Management
European Business School
My dissertation was titledï‚§ "Mobile Phone Diffusion and Rural Healthcare Access in India and China," for which I secured >£110,000 in research funding and scholarship support and received my DPhil without corrections.
ï‚§I received an MPhil with distinction and my thesis on "Analysing the Impact of the Polio Eradication Initiative on Routine Immunisation in India" was published as “Editor’s Choice” in Health Policy and Planning.
My dissertation focused on "An Investigation of the Thai Rice Industry: Current State, Development, and Strategies," I worked as research assistant at the Department of Strategy and Organization, and ranked 4th out of 246 students.
Recent Professional Placements
2019-2022
Assistant Professor
University of Warwick
I developed and led lasting interdisciplinary and international research initiatives while heading the ethical approval processes and designing undergraduate course modules on health and sustainable development and dissertation research.
2015-2018
Postdoctoral Scientist
University of Oxford
Aside from graduate-level teaching on Health and International Development, Sustainable Development, and Critical Engagement, I led social research in five projects and attracted four grants totalling >£250,000 as principal investigator
2012-2013
Consultant
KfW Development Bank
I led the production of a 30-page of German aid projects in health and development to support project managers, evaluators, and policy analysts in their anticipation and evaluation of the side-effects of health interventions.
2009-2010
Development Economist
German Investment Corporation
I ï‚§produced country analyses and development briefings for Senior Management while advising project managers in assessing development effects of the Corporation's projects, including an evaluation mission to Croatia.
Research Projects
IMMANA
£249k (2022-24; PI: C.S. Srinivasan)
Food activity spaces
Thailand, Laos
EUTOPIA Alliance
£157k (2021-25; PhD student Kee Xayavong)
Learning space
Laos
ESRC
£238k (2017-18)
Antibiotic use in context
Thailand, Laos
ESRC IAA
£8k (2016)
Socio-medical conversations
Thailand
Royal Academy of Engineering and others (ESRC IAA, GCRF)
£108k (2021-22)
Land use and conservation
Thailand, Malay-sia, Madagascar
Various grants (IAS, WICID)
£6k (2019-20)
Precarity and superbugs
Thailand, Laos
University of Oxford PE Fund
£4k (2016-17)
Science the-atre evaluation
Thailand
John Fell Fund
£28k (2013-15; PI: Proochista Ariana)
Phones and healthcare
China, India
Royal Academy of Engineering
£16k (2021-22)
Low-cost clay water filters
Afghanistan
GCRF Catalyst
£16k (2019; PI: Jess Savage)
Impact of ma-rine protection
Cambodia
Wellcome, MORU
£99k (2016-17; PI: Yoel Lubell)
Diagnostic test trial
Thailand, Myanmar
ESRC DTC
£1k (2013)
Doctoral stu-dent exchange
United Kingdom