Gift Nwamadu is the researcher and analyst behind Policies Vault. She is currently pursuing an MPhil in Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, where her research focuses on climate finance governance, gender-responsive development policy, and institutional effectiveness.

Gift holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, during which she developed a specialist focus on women, power, and economic agency in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa - examining historical patterns of female economic participation from pre-colonial contexts through to contemporary development frameworks. This foundation shapes her analytical approach: development policy cannot be understood without understanding the historical and gendered structures it operates within.

She created Policies Vault as a space to publish policy analysis and commentary that bridges academic research and practical policy debates - examining implementation gaps across climate finance, gender and development, ESG frameworks, and digital technology. Her work is driven by a simple question: how do international policy commitments actually translate - or fail to translate - into practice?