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Anna Tompsett
Anna Tompsett is a third-year student in the PhD program in Sustainable Development. She graduated with a first class M.Eng. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London and the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in 2004, and completed an M.Phil. in Engineering for Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge in 2007.
Anna has consultancy experience in the UK in both water and structural engineering. Her overseas experience includes a year teaching high school Math and Physics in Uganda, and a year as an Engineers Without Borders UK volunteer, working on rural infrastructure projects in the Dadiya tribal lands of Gombe State, Nigeria, as well as involvement in improved-earthquake resistance adobe construction projects in El Salvador.
She currently works on research projects in Mali (using Landsat images to understand flood and agriculture patterns around Toya Millennium Village in the Niger Inland Delta) and in Bangladesh (as research assistant on a randomized field test of the impact of decentralization of decision-making in the provision of arsenic-safe water sources). Her research is broadly focused on understanding the interactions between different types of capital (physical, human, social, natural and financial).