Dr. Rachel Glennerster

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, MIT

Rachel Glennerster is Executive Director of J-PAL. Dr. Glennerster received her Doctorate in Economics from the University of London, and worked as an economist for the UK Treasury, the Harvard Institute for International Development, and the International Monetary Fund before joining J-PAL.Her current research includes randomized evaluations of community driven development in Sierra Leone, empowerment of adolescent girls in Bangladesh, and health, education, and microfinance in India.

Dr. Charles Lusthaus

McGill University and Universalia Management Group

Charles Lusthaus, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Administration and Policy Studies, McGill University, and a partner in Universalia Management Group. His expertise is in organizational theory and in institutional evaluation and change. Dr. Lusthaus has more than 20 years of experience in organizational development and assessment and has published more than 30 articles on topics related to educational management and policy development. He is one of the authors of Institutional Assessment: A Framework for Strengthening Organizational Capacity and has also made more than 50 presentations at conferences and workshops. Dr. Lusthaus is the Faculty Advisor for the Centre for Educational Leadership, McGill University.

Dr. Dan Levy

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Dan Levy, Lecturer in Public Policy and Faculty Chair of the MPA Programs, teaches courses in quantitative methods and program evaluation. He has served as a Senior Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, where he has been involved in several evaluations of social programs. He is currently directing the evaluation of a school construction program in Burkina Faso and a technical assistance project to Mexico's Social Development Ministry (Sedesol). He was recently involved in the evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program in Jamaica, the evaluation of an after-school program in the United States, and a methodological review of studies comparing the use of random assignment and quasi-experimental methods to estimate program impacts. He is a lab affiliate at the Poverty Action Lab (MIT) and has served as a consultant to several organizations including the World Bank, the IDB, and the Global Development Network (GDN). He received his PhD in economics from Northwestern University, grew up in Venezuela, and is fluent in Spanish and French.

Dr. Fred Carden (Moderator)

The International Development Research Center, Canada

Fred Carden is a Research Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard’s Center for International Development and Director of the Evaluation Unit of The International Development Research Centre in Canada. He has written in the areas of evaluation, international cooperation, and environmental management. Current work includes assessment of the influence of research on public policy, and the development of use-oriented evaluation tools and methods. Recent co-publications include “ Outcome Mapping”, “Organizational Assessment”, and “Evaluating Capacity Development”. He has taught and carried out research at York University, the Cooperative College of Tanzania, the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia and the University of Indonesia. Carden holds a PhD in management from the Université de Montréal and a Master’s degree in environmental studies from York University. His work looks at questions related to the application of Outcome Mapping (Earl, Carden and Smutylo, 2001) in knowledge-to-action settings and strengthening the use of outcome mapping as a tool for measuring at the interface, or boundary, between knowledge and action.

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