Vittorio Bruni

Vittorio Bruni is a final-year DPhil candidate in Migration Studies at the University of Oxford and an ESRC Scholar with an Advanced Quantitative Methods award. He holds an MSc in Public Policy and Human Development from UNU-MERIT/Maastricht University and a BA in Development Economics from the University of Florence.

His research lies at the intersection of development economics, humanitarian aid, and migration, with a focus on experimental and quasi-experimental methods.

His doctoral project examines humanitarian aid reductions and delays in refugee camps, analysing how these dynamics shape household strategies and local markets. Alongside his doctoral work, he has served for four years as a teaching assistant for the MSc in Migration Studies quantitative methods course. He currently works as Researcher and Fieldwork Coordinator with the Refugees Economic Programme at the Oxford Development for International Development (ODID), where he oversees large-scale data collection in displacement settings.

He brings seven years of experience with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), where he led primary research on migration and displacement across South and Central Asia.

Beyond academic publishing, he has written for national and international newspapers and co-founded VEC, an independent magazine published annually in English and Italian.