Victoria Room

Policy Advisor

Victoria is the Policy Advisor for aidinfo, leading aidinfo’s work on research and partnerships. As part of this, Victoria works with a wide range of organisations to build an evidence base on the need for aid transparency and to join up the various efforts to make resources for poverty reduction more transparent. Victoria also works on exploring the potential of crowdsourcing to create feedback loops in the aid system.

Victoria coordinates the day-to-day management of aidinfo, preparing reports to funders and representing aidinfo at external meetings.

Prior to joining Development Initiatives, Victoria worked for Panos London on the Information Society and Globalisation Programmes. Victoria has a Masters in International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam.

Victoria Room

Victoria says:

“Recent years have seen a groundswell of support for open data and aid effectiveness. It’s exciting to work at the intersection of these; working towards political and technical solutions to improve access to information on resources for poverty reduction and ultimately more accountable and effective aid.”

News & Views
From Victoria

Nepal, Pattan Durbar Square © ngotoh, Flickr

Launch of our Nepal Country Study

NewsViews Published: 08/02/2012

This week we’re very excited to be launching work in Nepal. With the IATI standard now bearing fruit, we are increasingly turning our attention to how we can help make this information useful in aid recipient countries. Last year, we worked with a group of interested organisations in Kathmandu to try and understand the nature… [more]

The Hague in winter ©jaywaykay

Dutch NGOs make progress on transparency at Partos

NewsViews Published: 20/10/2010

It was good to be invited to the Partos Conference in the Netherlands, and to see the progress that Dutch NGOs are making on transparency. In many ways, they are ahead of the game, with initiatives such as the Dutch NGO database, developed by the Dutch Foreign Ministry and Radjboud University, Nijmegen which publishes datasets… [more]