Hazal Oz is a Managing Director at Development Analytics. With extensive experience in social policy, she has contributed to a wide range of policy areas, including poverty measurement, the design of social protection interventions, and improving education outcomes for children. She has led the development and implementation of programme and policy strategies, while also serving as a team leader overseeing multi-disciplinary technical workstreams. Her work has supported projects commissioned by donor organizations and UN agencies, ensuring alignment with institutional objectives and global development priorities.

Hazal’s work spans numerous countries such as Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Lebanon, Malawi, Nigeria, and Türkiye, collaborating with institutions including UNICEF, UNHCR, WFP, the World Bank, IFRC, and the European Commission. She has played crucial roles in projects like revising the targeting approach for multipurpose cash assistance programs and emergency social safety nets (ESSN) in Türkiye, Lebanon, and Iraq. Her work involved designing innovative targeting approaches and developing machine learning models to predict poverty within the targeted populations of these countries, coupled with targeting error analyses.

In addition to her project work, Hazal leads the design and continuous enhancement of the Interactive Social Policy Simulator (ISPS) at Development Analytics, creating user-friendly interactive microsimulation tools that empower policymakers with actionable insights.

She holds a Master’s degree in Comparative Social Policy from the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at University of Oxford, a second Master’s in Data Science and Society from Tilburg University and a BSc in Sociology and International relations from Koc University.