Overview:•Lead an engagement with the World Food Programme, which covers a research portfolio of USD14 million on resilience, gender, and the humanitarian-development nexus•Design, implement, and supervise a half dozen research projects, linking with principal investigators, program operations, governments, and other development partners•Initiate new research agendas with World Bank Global Practices and other development stakeholders•Supervise and mentor junior colleagues such as research assistants, field coordinators, and research analysts•Develop and manage DIME’s Policy Influence and MyIE toolkit, a web-based dashboard which provides insight on how to improve programming and policy •Deliver capacity building events and promote buy-in for quantitative research with local government agencies and partners•Produce fundraising proposals and decision-making tools including policy notes, research reports, and papersRelevant Project Experience:•Niger- Forcibly Displaced Support Project Impact Evaluation•Niger- Resilience Learning in the Sahel•Jordan- Social and economic integration of Syrian refugees in host communities •Mali- Resilience Learning in the Sahel•DRC- Impact Evaluation of FAO, WFP, and UNICEF’s Joint Resilience Program•DRC- Making Services Work for the Poor in Fragile and Conflict-afflicted Contexts (Tuungane IEs)•DRC- Impact Evaluation of a CDD Intervention with a Conflict Resolution Dimension•DRC- Impact Evaluation of the Effects of Labor-Intensive Public Works on the Urban Poor•DRC- Who Chooses Best? An RCT on how to best target vulnerable populations in Eastern DRC•Senegal- The Speed of Justice and its impacts on the business climate in Senegal•Senegal- Group Incentives for the Public Good : A Field Experiment on Improving the Urban Environment

I was the Field Coordinator for two impact evaluations in Senegal: (i) The Speed of Justice in Dakar’s Tribunal de Grande Instance and (ii) Community engagements for flood mitigation in the peri-urban areas of Dakar. Key Accomplishments:-Leading the implementation of all field activities, which included among other things, close work with government partners, ensuring that the IE and project protocols were implemented as planned, and data collection supervision.-Questionnaire development and programming (SurveyCTO)-Data analysis-Writing research outputs (final report and paper)

Research Assistant for the PESMIX project. Key accomplishments:-Data cleaning and quantitative analysis on an Impact Evaluation of the “Mexican PES scheme within Cash Transfer programs in Yucatan”-Co-writing research outputs such as Working Papers and policy reports-Presenting results at the Leipzig 2014 “POLICYMIX” conference

Consultant within the Agricultural and Development Economics Division.Key accomplishments:-Estimated Carbon footprint emissions for pastoral and agricultural projects (Ex-ante Carbon Balance tool)-Developed material and participated in capacity building for farmers on Climate Smart Agriculture in South Africa-Participated in output writing

I participated in implementing the PESMIX research project. Key accomplishments:-Developed questionnaires to measure farmer level and community level impacts of PES schemes in Yucatan, Mexico-Supervised and participated in data collection efforts