Macartan Humphreys - Professor of Political Science, Colombia University

Impact Evaluation 4 Peace

Biographies

Keynote Speaker

Macartan Humphreys - Professor of Political Science, Colombia University

Macartan Humphreys (Ph.D., Harvard, 2003) works on the political economy of development and formal political theory. Ongoing research focuses on civil wars, post-conflict development, ethnic politics, natural resource management, political authority and leadership, and democratic development. He uses a variety of methods including survey work, lab experimentation, field experimentation, econometric analysis, game theoretic analysis, and classical qualitative methods. He has conducted field research in Chad, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Liberia, Mali, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Uganda, and elsewhere. A new series of projects underway uses field experiments to examine democratic decision-making in post-conflict and developing areas. Recent research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, World Politics, Public choice, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and elsewhere. He is a research scholar at the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University's Earth Institute.

Panelists and Presenters

Yongmei Zhou - Manager, Center for Conflict, Security and Development

Yongmei Zhou manages the World Bank's Global Center for Conflict, Security and Development, located in Washington, Nairobi and New York. In this role, she is responsible for supporting Bank-wide efforts to operationalize the learning from the World Development Report on Conflict, Security and Development. The center focuses on facilitating strategic dialogue about root causes of conflict and fragility and how development assistance could help countries transition out of fragility, stimulating operational learning of how development progress can be made in conflict affected settings, and contributing to global partnership around issues related to conflict, security and development. Her areas of expertise include public sector reform, decentralization, and local governance reform. Prior to this role, she was the Regional Governance and Anti-Corruption Focal Point for the South Asia Region. In this role, she led the region’s implementation of the next phase of the Governance and Anti-corruption strategy. She received her PhD Economics from University of California at Berkeley, specializing in Development Economics and New Institutional Economics. She joined the World Bank as a Young Professional in 1999 and has worked on public sector governance issues in Africa and South Asia.

Arianna Legovini – Head Development Impact Evaluation

Arianna Legoviniis the Head of the Development Impact Evaluation Initiative (DIME) at the World Bank. DIME is a global initiative to put the scientific method at the service of development policy. Arianna is responsible for developing a new institutional approach to use rigorous impact evaluation to improve Bank's operations and help governments improve the effectiveness of their policies by testing and scaling up implementation modalities that work. In this role, Arianna supports the coordination of several multi-country programs of evaluation in various sectors and overviews the implementation of a couple of hundreds analytical products. In 2005, Arianna established the Africa Impact Evaluation Initiative for the Africa region of the World Bank. She also developed the Africa Results Monitoring System, the first Bank system to monitor Bank results. Before joining the Bank, Arianna was acting chief of the Poverty Unit in Inter-American Development Bank, and coordinator of the Network of Inequality and Poverty of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA). She is an economist from University of Maryland with twenty academic publications including journal articles and chapters in edited volumes.

Alberto Diaz-Cayeros - Senior Fellow, Stanford University

Alberto Diaz-Cayeros joined the FSI faculty in 2013 after serving for five years as the director of the Center for US-Mexico studies at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his Ph.D at Duke University in 1997. He was an assistant professor of political science at Stanford from 2001-2008, before which he served as an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Diaz has also served as a researcher at Centro de Investigacion Para el Desarrollo, A.C. from 1997-1999. His work has primarily focused on federalism and economic reform in Latin America, and Mexico in particular. He has published widely in Spanish and English. His forthcoming book is entitledOverawing the States: Federalism, Fiscal Authority and Centralization in Latin America.

Aminur Rahman, Senior Investment Officer, IFC

Aminur Rahman is currently working as a Senior Investment Policy Officer in the Investment Climate Department of the World Bank Group. Previously he worked with the Development Research Group and South Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management of the World Bank. He has more than 12 years of policy research and operational experience related to investment climate and private sector development and has worked on a wide range of countries in Easter Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, and South Asia. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from University College London and a Master in Development Economics from Oxford University. His research interests include gender, informality, corruption, and aid effectiveness. He has published in a number of leading economics and business journals and in collective volumes from various academic press, including the MIT Press, Palgrave Macmillan, and United Nations University Press.

Andres Villaveces – Senior Citizen Security Specialist, World Bank

Andres is an injury prevention epidemiologist with extensive experience in global health, and policy research. He has worked at the World Health Organization Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, RAND Corporation and the Universidad del Valle.

Annette Brown - Deputy Director, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)

Dr. Annette N. Brown serves as Deputy Director of 3ie in charge of Advancement and Impact Evaluation Services, and she is Head of the 3ie Washington office. She also heads 3ie’s HIV/AIDS evidence programmes. She established and continues to lead 3ie’s programmes for impact evaluation replication and registration, and she is currently launching 3ie’s new joint Evidence for Peace initiative with Innovations for Poverty Action and the World Bank. She is also responsible for planning and managing 3ie’s advancement strategy, which encompasses fundraising and membership recruitment and engagement. Until May 2012, she also served asChief Evaluation Officer, for which she directed 3ie’s evaluation office and oversaw grants management and quality assurance for all primary study research funded by 3ie.

Beatriz Magaloni - Associate, Stanford University

Beatriz Magaloni is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. She is also an affiliated faculty member of the Woods Institute of the Environment (2011-2013) and a Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Development. In 2010 she founded the Program on Poverty and Governance (POVGOV) within the Freeman Spogli Institute’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. There she pursues a research agenda focused on governance, poverty reduction, electoral clientelism, the provision of public goods, and criminal violence. Her research has also concentrated on the politics of authoritarian regimes, democratization, and the dynamics of protest. Prior to joining Stanford in 2001, Magaloni was a Visiting Professor at UCLA and was a Professor of Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). She earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University. She also holds a law degree from ITAM, Mexico, where she was born and grew up.

Bilal Siddiqi - Economist, Development Impact Evaluation

Bilal Siddiqi is a postdoctoral scholar affiliated with the Empirical Studies of Conflict project. His research focuses on micro-institutions, formal and informal legal systems, peace-building and state accountability in post-conflict settings. He is currently involved in several field experiments in Sierra Leone and Liberia, including a randomized controlled trial of two non-financial incentive mechanisms in Sierra Leone’s public health sector; experimental evaluations of community-based paralegal programs in Liberia and Sierra Leone; and a randomized controlled trial of a community reconciliation program in Sierra Leone. Bilal received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Prior to Stanford, he was based at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm as a Marie Curie / AMID Scholar; and has also spent time at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC, where he worked on aid effectiveness in global health. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) from the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan.

Caio Piza, Economist, Development Impact Evaluation

Caio is an economist in DIME where he coordinates the Brazilian portfolio. His main areas of interest range from microfinance and financial literacy to education, labor economics, and agricultural economics. Caio holds a master degree in applied economics from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil, and a master degree in Development Economics from the University of Sussex in UK where he is currently a PhD candidate.

Daniel Rogger – Economist, University College of London

Daniel Rogger is a PhD student at the Economics Department of University College London, a PhD scholar at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and a 2012 junior fellow of the Royal Economic Society. He worked for the Federal Government of Nigeria from 2005 to 2011 where he began as an Overseas Development Institute fellow. He has also worked for the Department for International Development, UK, and the National Institute for Economic and Social Research. His research interests include development, public and organizational economics.

Dan Stein, Economist, Development Impact Evaluation

Daniel Steinis an Economist in DIME. He works primarily on developing and managing impact evaluations of projects funded by the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) in Haiti, Nepal, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Niger, and Mongolia. His main interests are technology adoption, agricultural productivity, index insurance, and behavior under uncertainty. Daniel holds an MSc and PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Eric Mvukiyehe, Economist, Development Impact Evaluation

Eric Mvukiyehe (Ph.D., Political Science - Columbia University) works for the World Bank's Development Economics Impact Evaluations (DECIE) unit, where he coordinates the imitative of impact evaluations for Fragile and Conflict-affected situations (FCS). Previously, he worked in the Word Bank's Gender Innovation Lab (GIL), where he provided support and technical assistance in the design and implementation of gender programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Eric was also a Democracy Fellow with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where he worked in the Democracy, Human Rights and Governance (DRG) sector. He has led local population surveys in Cote d’Ivoire and Liberia, as part of United Nations evaluations of peacekeeping operations in both countries. His research interests focus on the role of outside actors in social and political processes in FCs, particularly in the areas of peacekeeping and peacebuilding; democratization at the grassroots level; engagement with non-state actors and women empowerment, among others. His research has been published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution and Comparative Political Studies.

Eric Rakoto-Andriantsilavo, National Coordinator, Madagascar Integrated Growth Poles Project

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Giacomo de Giorgi - Research Professor, Barcelona School of economics

Before coming to Barcelona, Giacomo De Giorgi was Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He has been Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California-Berkeley. He is Research Affiliate of BREAD, Faculty Research Fellow of CEPR, and Research Fellow of NBER. He is also Faculty Fellow of the Stanford Center for International Development (SCID) and Affiliate of Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti (fRDB). Prof. De Giorgi’s research interests include Development, Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Consumption Smoothing, Insurance Networks, and Social Interactions. In 2011, he received an IGC grant for his project, “Exit from Informality: Carrot and Stick.” In 2009 he received an FSI and an SCID grant for Financial Literacy and Development and an IRiSS-seeds grant for Climate Change and Development.

Haracio Larreguy - Assistant professor Harvard University

Horacio Larreguy is an Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. He received a PhD in Economics from MIT in 2013, Master in Economics and Finance from CEMFI in 2007 and BA in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires in 2004.His research interests include political economy and economic development using both theory and empirics. Horacio is currently working on new projects on political clientelism and media.

Holly Benner, Senior Operations Officer, Fragile States

Holly Benner is a Senior Operations Officer for the State- and Peace-building Fund in the Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group at the World Bank. Holly was previously Project Coordinator and Analyst for the World Bank’s 2011 World Development Report on conflict, security and development and Assistant Director at the Brookings Institution for the Managing Global Insecurity Project. Holly came to Brookings following a pilot assignment with the U.S. Department of State as a Conflict Advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal. Prior to her deployment to Nepal, Holly was a Conflict Prevention Officer in the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization at the Department of State (S/CRS) and a Presidential Management Fellow in the Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation at USAID. Holly also worked with UNHCR on refugee return efforts in Rwanda and Bosnia and for the Carter Center’s conflict resolution program. She holds a M.A. from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a B.A. from Colorado College.

Jennifer Mc-Cleary-Sills – Gender-Based Violence Specialist, World Bank

Jennifer McCleary-Sills leads the Gender-Based Violence work for the Gender Anchor of the World Bank. Jenn recently joined the Bank from International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), where she was a Senior Social and Behavioral Scientist with the Gender Violence and Rights team. In this role, Jenn designed and carried out research on GBV with a special focus on participatory learning and action with adolescents, community-based reintegration programs for conflict-affected populations, and the evaluation of interventions aimed at preventing GBV and meeting the needs of survivors. Jenn brings more than a decade of experience in public health practice and international development. In previous roles with the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs and World Vision, she developed and implemented strategic behavior change communication initiatives and grassroots maternal and reproductive health programs. She has worked extensively in the Middle East, East Africa, and Latin America. She holds honors degrees from Yale University (BA), Boston University School of Public Health (MPH), and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (PhD). A native English speaker, Jenn is fluent in Spanish, and French, proficient in Arabic.