MARION GUILLAUME Children & Youth Pillar Lead

MARION GUILLAUME
Senior Research Manager

Areas of Expertise: Research Methodology Design, Participatory Research Design,
Children and Youth, Protection, Child Migrants, Education.

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Marion Guillaume led the former Children and Youth Pillar at Samuel Hall, dedicated to understanding the experiences of this demographic group in migration and displacement contexts across key regions of the world.

After nine years spent conducting fieldwork and research out of Samuel Hall’s Kabul, Nairobi and Tunis offices, Marion is now leading a team of researchers on child protection, education, and child and youth transitions into adulthood. With more than a decade of experience working with key humanitarian and development actors, Marion continues to advocate for safeguarding for children on the move and in displacement, and for setting standards to mainstream their needs into programming, with organisations such as the Aga Khan Foundation, IOM, UNHCR, NRC, UNICEF and Save the Children.

Marion has developed research methods that are child-sensitive, innovative, and rigorous, following a do-no-harm design centring on children’s agency. Marion is passionate about advocating for the rights of children and youth and does so by building linkages to policy and academia. She has authored and contributed to more than 70 strategic, evaluatory and contextual pieces and policy briefs ranging from UNICEF Afghanistan’s Out of School Children Study to the implementation of the CBC in Dadaab and Kakuma for the Aga Khan Foundation. She has led workshops and webinars focused on supporting and monitoring children’s rights across contexts, through Samuel Hall’s seminal research pieces with Save the Children. After the fall of Kabul in 2021, Marion also put out strategic calls to action through interviews with news and print media, helping to raise awareness around the situation facing children in Afghanistan.

Marion holds an AB in History from Harvard University, USA, and a MA in International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris, France.

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