Krishnan Raghavan

Alumni Update:

Krishnan has stayed in Africa, and has been based in Tunisia for the last three years working as a Regional Livelihoods Officer with UNHCR. He supports a number of different UNHCR offices in Francophone Africa to improve their partnerships and programming aimed at increasing refugees’ access to sustainable livelihoods in their countries of asylum.

Fellow Bio:

Krishnan is from Portland, OR and studied French and Spanish language and literature at Haverford College. His interest in international development grew out of time spent abroad, first as a student in Aix-en-Provence, France then as a youth development volunteer in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and after graduation, spending a year as an English teacher at a university in Bangkok, Thailand. Since returning to the U.S., he has been working in the IRC’s refugee resettlement office in San Jose, CA and is looking forward to learning more about the IRC’s international work with its Somalia programs office. He is particularly excited to be able to contribute to Somalia’s development at such a critical juncture in the country’s history. While living in Nairobi, Krishnan hopes to learn Swahili and explore the great Kenyan outdoors as much as possible.