Education 

Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1996. National Science Foundation Fellow and Michigan Regents Fellow.

M.A., Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1992. 

M.A., Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1991.  

B.A., Economics and Russian double major with Honors, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, 1988. Phi Beta Kappa, 1987.

Country Experience                                                                                

Antigua, Armenia (resident), Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, Georgia, Herzegovina, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malawi, Moldova, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen and Zambia.

Languages

English (native), Russian (proficient)

Professional Experience

2023 - present: Chief Strategy and Evidence Officer, FHI 360, Washington, DC

2022 - 2023: Head of Strategy and Principal Economist, FHI 360, Washington, DC

2021 : Lecturer, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

2016 – 2022: Principal Economist, also Editor-in-Chief, R&E Search for Evidence; formerly Director, Research and Evaluation Strategic Initiative, FHI 360, Washington DC

2010 – 2016: Head of Washington Office and a Deputy Director of 3ie; formerly Chief Evaluation Officer, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), Washington, DC

2007 – 2010: Director in the Middle East Division; formerly Director of the Knowledge and Innovation Department (KID) and Director of Impact Measurement, Chemonics International Inc., Washington, DC

2005 – 2007: Center Director, International Activities Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC

1999 – 2005: Senior Manager; formerly Manager and Senior Associate, Emerging Markets division, BearingPoint, Inc. (now part of Deloitte), McLean, VA and Yerevan, Armenia

1996 – 1999: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan

1997 – 1999: Research Associate (in residence during summers), Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

1995 – 1996: Long-term Consultant, World Bank, Washington, DC.

1989 – 1994: National Science Foundation Fellow and Regents Fellow in Graduate Studies, Department of Economics and Program in Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1988 – 1989: Research Assistant, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC