Rahul Sinha Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Working with mission-oriented organisations to refine, develop, measure, and communicate their social impact. Past clients include the Fore Trust, the Overseas Development Institute, the Open Government Partnership, and the US National Science Foundation.

London, England, United Kingdom

UKNCC's Advisory Board provides insight and guidance supporting its educational programmes and Pathfinder Dialogues.

London, England, United Kingdom

A statutory role under the Localism Act 2011, adjudicating matters related to standards and ethics of members of the Court of Common Council.

Supporting the party by serving on panels that adjudicate complaints by or against members related to standards, compliance, and ethics.

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Served as Treasurer Aug 2021-Dec 2022, andActing Chair Jan-June 2022.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Leading the Fore’s monitoring & evaluation and impact measurement
• Managing a grant portfolio, including assessment, recommendation to externalfunding panels, monitoring and evaluation, and non-funding support

London, United Kingdom

Omidyar-funded project, communicating research to government, media, and civil society stakeholders, on over 160 countries’ level of perceived property rights and land tenure security.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Assisting the OGP in engaging partner governments and allied CSOs regarding OGP's commitment to spreading the practice of government-civil society co-creation of policy.1) sharing models of engagement centred around deliberative decision making2) Delivered a report to the OGP board and other stakeholders of the Phase 1 grant awardees, their use of grant.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

HEI supports nonprofits and the public sector in the education sector by providing strategic planning, conducting independent evaluations, facilitating partnerships, and undertaking research. The consultancies listed below were delivered via HEI:

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Developed a new member trustee engagement strategy in partnership with senior leadership to engage over 2000 universities’ trustees and governors, managing teams from 4 different consultancies to deliver that strategy.Managed procurement of consulting and services from assessing needs through internal/external consultations, through the RFP and proposal.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Partnering with USDoEd and 3 guaranty agencies
• Provided oversight on behalf of the US government for a grants programme that increased graduation rates by 7.3% across 147 post-secondary institutions in the US that disproportionately serve underprivileged minority.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Designed a four year evaluation of Mississippi community college participation with Achieving the Dream, an evidence-based institutional transformation programme
• Designed data collection protocols and oversaw initial interviews of relevant college staff

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Drafted a report detailing the current research on adult student success (application, matriculation, completion, persistence, and graduation).
• Developed briefs for federal policymakers and post-secondary institutions detailing how that research could inform policy and programme design.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Drafted the final report of an evaluation of the American Council on Education's Alternative Credit Program funded by the Gates Foundation.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• After the 2016 US election, co-founded a national civic engagement network that worked to build a healthy policy conversation between different constituencies: leaders; experts, and the public.
• Grew the organisation in one year to 700 active volunteers, 80,000 members, and presence on the ground in 22 states.
• Some highlights of successful campaigns:Wisconsin—ran state’s March for Science New Mexico—provided policy support to under-resourced state legislature… Show more
• Some highlights of successful campaigns:Wisconsin—ran state’s March for Science New Mexico—provided policy support to under-resourced state legislature staffKansas—convinced a Republican majority legislature to raise.
• Oversaw the 22 state chapters, the state leads reporting to my supporting staff of 5. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Inquiry supports nonprofits and the public sector with policy research, monitoring and evaluation, and stakeholder engagement. The consultancies list below were delivered via Inquiry:

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Assisting the NSF's support of the Belmont Forum, a multilateral organisation with 26 national partners that pools funding for scientific research projects with an eye towards real world impact
• Building a grants-oversight platform, including developing M/E/L approaches for this global grants programme
• Assembling data visualisations that assist NSF and BF decision makers with their oversight responsibilities
• Created geospatial visualisations (ArcGIS+Leaflet) of stakeholder… Show more
• Created geospatial visualisations (ArcGIS+Leaflet) of stakeholder participation and network maps Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Identifying trends in Chinese government perspectives on various issues to advise and support US foreign policy decision makers

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Designed a platform for the evaluation of project activity and output indicators
• Developed a predictive analytics suite to alert team leads and sector leadership to areas for improving project performance

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• With the Sunlight Foundation
• Developed policy targets for subnational procurement reform, and drafted digestible guidelines and a more comprehensive research paper
• Reviewed the procurement policies of 22 cities and interviewed leadership from 13 agencies on public engagement strategies, data collection and handling, staff workflows, and community concerns
• Led to pilot reforms in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, and now over 100 cities

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• SEVRA interpretation (Section 8 voucher reform)
• Maryland "Combined Reporting" corporate tax reform
• CLASS Act projections
• Debt-ceiling crisis impact analysis
• 2012 campaign budget proposal scoring
• Public works financing study

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Managed the development of, and edited, a textbook on the Federal Appropriations process and the history of budget procedures in the 20th century
• Performed research related to party vs constituency interests in committee and floor votes on appropriations bills
• Assisted in the creation and overhaul of graduate-level statistics curricula

• Created systems, and managed a team that maintained, data collection and mining applications.
• Developed instruments to mine (define), aggregate, and preserve data relationships in extremely large scale databases
• Adapted them for use in market research/analysis, political behaviour surveys, and a variety of sociological studies.
• Developed performance-critical, inaccuracy-intolerant caching agents to improve system performanceLed a team of 15, with three direct reports

Ba, Bs, Government & Politics, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: University of Maryland Parliamentary Debate Society

Mpp, Public Finance, Management