Professor Nicola Yeates is Chair of Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Criminology at The Open University, where they are a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a UKCGE-accredited doctoral supervisor. They completed their PhD at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Professor Peter Townsend, and previously held posts at University College Dublin and Queen's University Belfast. Their research centres on transnationalisation and globalisation as social processes, and their implications for social policy and welfare, with particular interests in global and world-regional governance, international migration, global care chains, health worker migration, and global youth unemployment. They are the author and editor of numerous books, including Understanding Global Social Policy (now in its third edition, Bristol University Press, 2022), International Health Worker Migration and Recruitment (Routledge, 2019, with Jane Pillinger), and Global Youth Unemployment: History, Governance and Policy (Edward Elgar, 2021, with Ross Fergusson). They lead The Open University's research partnership with Public Services International, and have worked with organisations including the World Health Organisation, International Labour Organisation, World Bank, and UNESCO. They serve on the international advisory board of the Journal of Global Social Policy and the advisory board of the Global Dynamics of Social Policy Collaborative Research Centre at the University of Bremen.

Biographical details correct as of 20.04.26