Purvi Patel

Purvi Patel is an attorney and public health professional in the humanitarian and international development sectors, specializing in livelihoods, refugee protection, climate migration, monitoring and evaluation, and emergency response.

She is currently adjunct faculty at Wheaton College's Humanitarian Disaster Institute in Illinois, and until July 2025 served as a Humanitarian Assistance Officer in the US Foreign Service with USAID. From 2013 to 2024, Purvi worked for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), along with other NGOs and private sector actors, and as an International Affairs Fellow in India through the Council on Foreign Relations.

As a private consultant, she has worked on consulting teams for Refugees International and the Center for Global Development to update their Global Refugee Right to Work Report, and for the US State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) to evaluate the Western Hemisphere Regional Migration Capacity Building Program, a project implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 12 countries. She also served twice as a consultant on Protection Information Management (PIM) for the Danish Refugee Council, in Latin America and in Libya. Other past clients have included Asylum Access and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).