Karel Chromy

MPhil Development Studies, 2010
Magdalen College
Funding: Weidenfeld

Karel is currently pursuing his MBA at the Kellogg School of Management, where he is a Golub Capital Board Fellow. He will be joining McKinsey & Co. upon graduation. Karel also recently completed a Master of Public Policy at Princeton University as a Public and International Affairs Fellow and Graduate Associate at the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance.

Prior to moving to the USA, Karel was the Monitoring and Reporting Officer for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency based in Beirut, Lebanon. And he was the Chief of Party of an independent impact monitoring cash consortium (comprised of NRC, Oxfam, and Solidarités International) for WFP unrestricted cash transfers in Lebanon. 

He has co-authored several chapters on local-level conflict resolution in Nigeria in Creed & Grievance: Muslims, Christians & Society in Northern Nigeria (2018).  Karel’s career has primarily focused on impact studies and applied social research on social protection, health, education and livelihoods across sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria, Sudan, and South Sudan) and in Indonesia.

Karel received his MPhil in Development Studies as a Weidenfeld Scholar in 2010 and worked on conflict analysis with the International Crisis Group in Brussels before being awarded a highly competitive humanitarian leadership fellowship with Save the Children.

Karel is currently based in Chicago, IL, USA.