Radu Ban Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Managing data and evidence partnerships to identify evidence-backed approaches for women's economic empowerment.

Seattle, Washington

* Lead the work on Measurement and Evidence for WSH Program* As part of the WSH-Gender working group, lead the measurement and evidence portfolio regarding the role of gender in WSH* Develop and disseminate evidence for the interactions between WSH and Nutrition, WSH and Gender

Seattle, Wa

* Develop and manage a portfolio of evaluation grants to inform the medium and long-term WSH program strategy, including close interaction with Principal Investigators and their field staff* Develop grantee guidelines for research proposals that aim to establish causal relationships between interventions and outcomes* Design specific evaluations including experimental and quasi-experimental methods* Pro-actively develop a network of research partners (IPA, JPAL, IDInsight, EDEPO, others) that can be solicited on specific research questions* Build key grantees (UNICEF, WaterAid) capacity to conduct rigorous research, including experiments and quasi-experiments* Review and strengthen WSH grants results frameworks and measurement plans* Introducing performance incentives into selected WSH grants (including the design of 3rd party outcome verification)* Preparing research briefs detailing the findings from evaluation grants

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Economist - Principal Investigator: I lead the impact evaluations of community-driven development programs in the Central African Republic, Angola, Burkina-Faso, Cambodia and India (Andhra Pradesh). I am in charge of the methodology, survey design and implementation, hiring of consultants for field supervision, data analysis, and results dissemination for these four projects.• Coordinator of the impact evaluation programs in Fragile States, and Local Governance: I was in charge of establishing the analytical content of these two programs. For the launch of the Fragile States program I organized a multi-country workshop with 80 participants where 14 World Bank project teams and 18 researchers attended. I was in charge of coordinating impact evaluations activities in 11 World Bank projects in 8 countries. I ensured that the impact evaluations have the necessary support (both from the government and the Bank) and resources to progress according to the established schedule. This includes preparing grant funding requests, recruiting consultants for field coordination, and being in constant contact with the operational team and principal investigator.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Researcher for the 2012 World Development Report: Gender Equality and Development; prepared a note on the role of affirmative action for women's participation• Researcher for the Policy Research Report on Local Governance and Community Development (co-authored by Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao).• Analyzed qualitative and quantitative data from transcripts of village meetings from southern India and co-wrote an empirical study of the equitability of village meetings.• Analyzed survey data to measure the effect of reservation for women in southern Indian village governments on the quality of governance• Coordinated data collection in a study of local governance in southern India, and urban poverty in Indonesia

Teach advanced micro-economics to undergraduate students

Research assistant for Professor Esther Duflo

Research assistant for Professor Michael Kremer

Research on tax policy for development

Phd, Economics

Ms, Economics

Ba, Economics