Suzanna Khalifa joined the Department in September 2024 as an Assistant Professor (tenure track). Prior to joining Sciences Po, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University. She is also an Invited Researcher at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). 

Her research focuses on labour and development Economics, in particular the status of women and the level of economic development. She is interested in various forms of violence against women in developing countries, such as domestic violence, excision practices, and the marriage market. Her job market paper Female Genital Cutting and Bride Price was awarded the European Economic Association (EEA) UniCredit Econ Job Market Best Paper Award 2022, and her paper The Price of Silence: Marriage transfers and women’s attitude toward intimate partner violence was nominated for the Econometrics Society’s Best Paper at the New Delhi Winter School in 2020.   

In 2025 alone her different research projects were awarded no fewer than seven grants, including a grant from the Humanitarian Protection Initiative Funding, from the International Growth Centre (IGC) and the Sciences Po Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).  

Suzanna Khalifa holds a PhD in Economics from the Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE) as well as a MSc in Economics

To learn more about Suzanna Khalifa's research, consult her website