Matt Sloan Email & Phone Number

Matt Sloan is a senior director at Mathematica and serves as the practice lead for bilateral and multilateral clients, including USAID, MCC, the U.S. Department of Labor, the World Bank, foreign governments and others. In this role, he develops an annual plan for business development, manages client relationships, oversees quality assurance on proposals and project deliverables, and participates in hiring and allocation of staff resources. He has significant experience working in developing countries, conducting rigorous program evaluations, and managing complex data collections. He also currently leads evaluations of education investments in the Republic of Georgia, Kingdom of Morocco, and Cote d’Ivoire that aim to build or rehabilitate school infrastructure and train educators. He also led evaluations of programs in Burkina Faso and Niger that aimed to increase girls’ school outcomes. In addition, he oversaw the development of a MEL Framework for the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program. He has experience with education infrastructure assessments, learning assessments including early grade reading (EGRA), and classroom observation. Sloan also directs agricultural sector evaluations. He is currently directing evaluations of a farmer training and irrigation project in Niger and land productivity programs in Morocco. He recently completed evaluations of environmental and natural resource management activities in Malawi, a study of farmer training and irrigation projects to support olive and date tree famers in Morocco, a performance evaluation of small-scale fisheries projects in Morocco, and a performance evaluation of a farmer training and technical assistance program in Madagascar. Sloan also developed a MEL plan for sustainable agricultural practices for the Packard Foundation. He also directs a project in Kosovo focused on promoting data-driven decision making in the environment, energy, and judicial sectors. He led an evaluation of programs in Rwanda aimed at strengthening the rule of law, civil society, civic participation, media, and the inspectorate services of the national police.Sloan regularly presents to professional associations, including the Comparative and International Education Society and the American Evaluation Association, and his work has been published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and World Development. He speaks French and holds a M.S. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College.

Listed skills include Program Evaluation, Qualitative Research, Survey Research, Survey Design, and 12 others.