Tichinashe is a researcher at the Oxford Martin’s Future of Development Programme. Her research interests are centered around development economics issues and how these issues are related to labour markets, energy, climate change and sustainability in low- and middle-income countries.

Tichinashe has recently completed an MPhil in Economics at the University of Cambridge where she was a Standard Bank African Chairman’s Scholar and she holds a BCom(Hons) in Economics from the University of Pretoria.