Purvi Patel

Purvi Patel is an attorney and public health professional in the international humanitarian and international development sectors, specializing in livelihoods, protection information management, refugee status determination, 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.