Vivien is the global humanitarian monitoring, evaluation and learning adviser for Oxfam GB. She is currently piloting a methodology for measuring change in the lives of affected communities after a disaster response, funded by DFID and in partnership with the University of East Anglia. She is also involved in developing a global indicator for Oxfam to systematically measure the quality of humanitarian responses.

Vivien has previously worked in development programmes across the world, including Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Thailand, Zimbabwe, South Africa and East Timor. She has worked with all the major humanitarian emergencies for the past eight years, including the East Asia tsunami in 2004, the Pakistan floods, and the Haiti earthquake in 2010.

Vivien holds a PhD from the University of Manchester in evaluation of behaviour change, with HIV in Zimbabwe as the area of research.