Patrick Vinck is the director and co-founder of the Initiative for Vulnerable Populations at UC Berkeley's Human Rights Center. His work serves to give a voice to survivors of mass violence and inform policy-making with a specific focus on analyzing vulnerabilities and attitudes about peace and reconstruction. Vinck also-cofounded KoBo, a digital data collection project to advance human rights research. He serves as a member on the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; an Adjunct Associate Professor at Tulane University's Payson Center for International Development; and a regular consultant on vulnerability analysis to the United Nations World Food Programme. He graduated as an engineer in applied biological sciences from Gembloux Agricultural University (Belgium), and holds a Ph.D. in International Development from Tulane University.

Email: pvinck@berkeley.edu

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