Akino Tahir is a Senior Researcher at the Resilience Development Initiative. She received her doctoral degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Previously, she worked with Save the Children International in Singapore. In 2017, she was a consultant and independent researcher for projects in relation to the topic of children and youth, gender and urban planning. Akino established RDI UREF in 2018 together with the other RDI UREF senior researchers and led the research on social integration of young refugees with local youth in Makassar in 2019.