As a Research Fellow, Tuli contributes to analytical and evaluation work on WorldPop’s impact in Namibia and helps build partnerships with national statistics offices and technical partners through the UNECA African Regional Hub for Big Data.

She achieved her PhD at the University of Southampton in 2026 with a thesis titled ‘Evaluating alternative data and methods to improve subnational population projections in Namibia’.  Tuli holds a BSc (Hons.) in IT Business Computing from the Namibia University of Science and Technology, a MSc Data Science from University of Salford and is a Chevening Scholar.

Tuli has extensive data management experience working at the Namibia Statistics Agency at various levels including software development, database management, data analytics, survey project management, and fostering data science related collaborations both locally and internationally – including the  RUsers Namibia initiative.

Her research interests -span finding alternative cost-effective methods and data sources to complement national statistics productions using geospatial datasets for lower- and middle-income countries.