Nakia Pearson

Nakia is a Program Associate at Templeton World Charity Foundation, where she supports research initiatives and grants under Discovery.  Before joining the Foundation, Nakia served as Project Manager for Research at NEOMA Business School in Reims, France, where she spearheaded the launch of their Behavioural Lab. Previously, she coordinated the involvement of Belgium’s Hugo Observatory in the High-End cLimate Impacts and eXtremes (HELIX) consortium, funded by the EC’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7) for Research.  In her role as Research Associate, she helped foster international collaboration and conducted field research on climate migration in Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, and India. Nakia has also lectured on Government & Politics, Research Methodologies, International Refugees, and Environmental Politics at several universities in Europe.  She has returned home to the Bahamas, where she previously served as Alumni Relations and Annual Fund Associate at the University of The Bahamas. Nakia holds an M.A. in International Development from Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA).