Petra Nahmias

Petra Nahmias leads the statistics team at UNHCR, working on a wide variety of statistical and demographic issues related to forced displacement and statelessness. A sociologist-demographer by training, she has worked in both international and national statistical systems including the United Nations Population Division, the UK Department for International Development and the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. She has a PhD in Sociology and Demography from Princeton University and an MA in Demography from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.