Ashley Wright is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Minerva Global Security Programme at the Blavatnik School of Government, which focuses on contested cross-border spaces, illicit flows, and order in the contemporary world. She specialises in data collection and quantitative analysis. Her doctoral research (DPhil, Politics at the University of Oxford) explores how key Congressional committees integrate US foreign assistance with foreign policy and national security priorities and involved the collection of original data on US foreign aid appropriations and elite interviews. She is currently working on a project on US military interventions and contested cross-border spaces for the Minerva Global Security Programme.

Ashley has previously taught at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate level and worked in Washington, DC. She holds an MSc in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall). She is the co-author of a chapter on the Political outcomes of aid with Julien Labonne (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford) and Cesi Cruz (UCLA) in the recent Elgar Handbook on Aid and Development.