Timothy P. Williams is an award-winning writer and researcher based in Boston. His work centers on the systems that give rise to inequalities and the experiences of those that bear witness, especially children.
His work focuses on children’s well-being, education, and protection. Since 2022, he has been consulting for UNICEF, providing technical support to strengthen child protection systems, with an emphasis on children affected by forced migration and displacement.
He has authored and co-authored over 70 academic articles, reports, and book chapters in the fields of education, child protection, and health. This work has been published in The Washington Post, The New England Journal of Medicine, World Development, and Comparative Educational Review, among others. He has also written think pieces for The Brookings Institution, Center for Global Development, and The World Bank. In 2023, he wrote an influential report on the consequences of urban warfare on children for the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Timothy’s work includes a decade-long investigation into education policy in Rwanda. This work has received numerous awards, including the 2020 Dudley Seers Prize for best paper published in the Journal of Development Studies, the 2018 Joyce Cain Award from the Comparative and International Education Society of North America, and the 2013 Tim Morris Award from Education Development Trust.
Timothy received his Ph.D. in international development from University of Bath, his MSc. in public health from Harvard University, and an MSW from Boston College. In 2017, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
He is currently a senior associate at Proteknôn Consulting Group, and an adjunct faculty member at Boston College School of Social Work where he has taught courses on global child protection since 2015. Previously he was an honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester.
Timothy and his wife live in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. In his spare time, he can be found taking his dog, Aloo, for long walks in Boston’s Arboretum.
