Susannah Kob-Horton Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Cybersecurity and Digital Policy Practice Lead at DAI’s Center for Digital Acceleration (CDA)- Provide strategic vision and leadership to ensure donor clients effectively and responsibly integrate digital technologies into their work. - Collaborate with clients and colleagues to prioritize investments in digital technology and cybersecurity for development, conduct research on digital ecosystems, and design and implement digital technology-enabled projects.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Strategic Planning and Client Engagement -Work with USAID Innovation, Technology, and Research Hub’s Technology Division (ITR/T) client to prioritize program activities. This includes anticipating and communicating potential risks, providing advice on risk mitigation, and engaging in scenario planning to ensure shared expectations. -Provide USAID ITR/T clients with guidance for long-term planning including on goal prioritization, delineation of roles, and identification of strategic inter-agency and external partnerships. -Primary point of contact with multiple USAID Missions and U.S. Department of State clients, leading meetings and identifying key decision points.Project Management-Manage activity implementation to ensure ahereance to approved work plan, troubleshooting deviations. -Manage research projects in complex environments ensuring risk mitigation and security protocol are in place and relationships are carefully managed. This includes raising concerns and risks early, using sound judgment, and maintaining trust. -Manage budgets totaling nearly $5M across multiple activities. -Oversee recruitment, onboarding, and management of staff and consultants; developing scopes of work, coordinating interviews, onboarding, and supporting staff. Technical Advisory & Research-Manage design, quality control, and implementation of multiple and simultaneous research projects for USAID ITR/T, USAID Missions, and the U.S. Department of State. -Provide technical input during the development and finalization of research deliverables. This includes leading presentations to U.S. Government (USG) audiences and authoring sections of reports.-Lead key informant interviews with stakeholders including country government personnel, mobile network operators, civil society, and tech startups. -Deliver actionable recommendations based on qualitative research assessments for USG interventions in digital ecosystems

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Monitoring and Evaluation & Impact Measurement -collect, validate, and analyze quarterly reporting data in excel for 7 climate incubators-maintain, iterate, and pitch utility of online data portal to developing country clients using human centered design practices-migrate data to online portal to maximize usability, stakeholder engagement, and analysis capabilitiesTechnical Research -analyze secondary data sources and generate data visualizations on entrepreneurship, doing business, and digital connectivity in Africa for white paper on regional trends in the startup ecosystemProject Management -manage and conduct research for the Climate Business Innovation Network (CBIN), promoting climate technology innovation and entrepreneurship

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Created and documented replicable analysis of database with 500+ projects for billion dollar investment portfolio. Presented process and findings to team of 25. Supported work to streamline M&E framework for Morocco technical and vocational education project.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Conducted a global stocktaking of successful models for financing young entrepreneurs and prepared a corresponding report that will be presented by the IFC's SME Finance Forum during the G20 meetings in Argentina. The report was complemented by field-based research in the Philippines in January 2018. The project is part of the 2017-18 Johns Hopkins SAIS International Development practicum program.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Designed and documented publication review process; liaised with senior economists, operations team, and web designer to streamline communication, wrote internally-facing blog to increase cross-program knowledge sharing (topic: potential of apprenticeship programs to remedy high youth unemployment)

Chennai, India

Conducted feasibility assessment for building India-wide data platform; evaluated regulatory challenges, profitability, competitor analysis, and data ecosystem.Analyzed spatial, climate, and demographic data to create a malaria surveillance system utilizing R, QGIS, and STATA.Wrote op-ed for devex.com on best practices for building a data system for disease surveillance.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Executed quantitative and qualitative analysis for global education research focusing on equity, skills development, and comparative global policy. Wrote content for reports based on analysis of government policies and stakeholder interviews from Mexico, South Africa, Philippines, and Kenya.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Utilized STATA to support research related to management, governance, and foreign aid in international development.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Analyzed large student and state-level data using T-SQL and STATA. Completed policy analysis and produced outward-facing reports. Responded to local education agency and other stakeholder requests.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

High-impact data and policy analysis at the Office of the State Superintendent of Education in Washington, D.C., attained leadership, networking, and education industry professional development.

Bethesda, Maryland

Conducted quantitative and qualitative research on education policy, programmatic interventions, and child development. Supported project implementation and evaluation by: writing literature reviews, creating surveys for fieldwork-based research, managing budgets, and submitting monthly reports to funders. Prepared large data sets and conducted analyses using STATA and SAS.

Yunnan, China

Working to bridge the rural-urban education divide, instructed, motivated, and tracked 200 first time English learning 3rd and 4th grade rural Chinese students towards ambitious growth goals, raising class average test scores by over 20% in one year. Wrote a successful grant proposal, receiving a 650¥ grant to initiate an MP3 library program.

Conducted research, wrote reports and planned events on the gender dynamics of issues such as entrepreneurship, youth empowerment, workplace discrimination and global public health as well as database management, partner organization collaboration and fundraising tasks

Pune, India

Volunteered at a non-profit run school for underprivileged slum children - planned lessons, corrected worksheets and tests, organized creative learning activities

Master’S Degree, International Economics And International Development

Honors Bachelor Of Arts, Major: International Studies Minor: Economics

Education record

Alliance for Global Education study abroad program Fall 2009 Relevant Coursework Environmental Perspectives, Development Economics.

Education record

Vassar College sponsored intensive language program Summer 2008, Term