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 decisionmaking 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 Legovini is 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. 1 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 entitled Overawing 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 as Chief 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. 2 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 Stein is 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 nonstate 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 Not available. 3 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 CaliforniaBerkeley. 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. Jonas Heirman – Growth and Impact Evaluation Advisor, DfID Over the past 7 years, prior to joining DfID, Jonas has worked with organizations involved in development cooperation at many different levels (i.e. local development projects and international development policy dialogues). Jonas has worked on aspects of agricultural development in Ethiopia, 4 Ghana, India, South Africa, and Zambia. Prior to joining DfID, Jonas worked for the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) where he was involved in many research and evaluation activities, focused primarily on evaluating the coherence, effectiveness, and impact of European policies and development activities. Jonas is a doctoral candidate in Development Studies at the University of Oxford, where his dissertation is focused on The Impact of International Actors on Agricultural Policy Processes. Jonas also holds a Master of Public Policy with a focus on Globalisation and Trade, and a B.A. in Political Science. Laura Chioda, Senior Economist, Latin America Region Not available. Laura Ralston, Economist, Fragile States Laura Ralston is an Economist in the Global Center for Conflict, Security and Development of the World Bank, a unit that focuses on improving the effectiveness and impact of development programs in fragile and conflict prone environments. She works on tracking progress and identifying challenges for projects and programs in these environments and helps develop collaborations across the World Bank and with external partners, with a focus on innovation and sharing of ideas. Towards these goals, she coordinates impact evaluation work across sectors in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia and East Asia, and performs conflict and fragility analysis and monitoring in Africa and the Middle East. Laura received her PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work at MIT studied the determinants of conflict and violence using a wide range of methodologies including quasiexperimental regression analysis, lab experiments, geo-spatial data science and statistical learning. Lodewijk Smets, Economist, UniversiteitAntwerpen Lodewijk Smets is trained as an economist at the Catholic University of Leuven and received a PhD in Applied Economics at the University of Antwerp. He also spent several stints at the World Bank’s Research Group. Currently, Lodewijk is employed as a post-doctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven and at the University of Antwerp. His primary field of research is aid effectiveness, i.e. using quasi-experimental methods to investigate whether the World Bank succeeds in supporting policy reform processes. He has published in journals such as World Development, The Review of International Organizations and Food Policy. Marcus Holmlund, Economist, Development Impact Evaluation Marcus Holmlund is an economist with the Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) team at the World Bank. He oversees and participates in a range of impact evaluations in diverse areas including health, governance, and fragile states. His current work focuses on the structures and mechanisms needed to increase access and use of services by end-users, and to improve accountability for service delivery. Prior to joining DIME, Marcus worked with grassroots NGOs in Ecuador, Colombia, and Paraguay. He holds an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a BA from Oxford University, and is a licensed snowboard instructor. Michael Gilligan - Associate Professor of Politics, NYU Professor Gilligan has conducted research in international cooperation including trade policy, human rights, and international peacekeeping. He also has contributed to more general theories of international cooperation. Recently he has begun to question how states recover from civil conflict with the help of the international community conducting field research in Nepal, Cambodia, Sudan and Nigeria and other countries. He teaches Introduction to International Politics and a seminar on Civil Wars and International Interventions. He has a B.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master in Public Affairs Princeton University; Ph.D. Harvard University. Pedro Vicente – Associate Professor, University of Lisbon 5 Pedro Vicente is an Associate Professor of Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics and the scientific director of NOVAFRICA. Pedro researches on development economics, with an emphasis on political economy issues, and a special interest in Africa. He designed and conducted fieldwork (including randomized field experiments) in Angola, Mozambique, Nigeria, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe. He has published articles in top field journals such as the Journal of Development Economics. Pedro holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, and is affiliated with BREAD and with the CSAE at the University of Oxford. He is Lead Academic for Mozambique at the IGC, a consortium between the LSE and Oxford, and a consultant for the World Bank. Philip Vervimp - Associate Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles Philip obtained his PhD in Economics from the Catholic University of Leuven in January 2003 with a dissertation on the political economy of development and genocide in Rwanda. He specializes in the economic causes and consequences of conflict at the micro-level. Philip has done quantitative work on the death toll of the genocide and on the demography of post-genocide Rwanda. Philip was a Fulbright-Hays Fellow at Yale University and worked for the World Bank as a Poverty Economist. He received the Jacques Rozenberg Award from the Auschwitz Foundation for his dissertation. Philip taught Development Economics at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and at the Universities of Antwerp, Leuven and Utrecht. Philip was a research fellow from the Fund for Scientific Research (Flanders, Belgium) and visiting fellow at ECARES (2007-2009). He currently holds the Marie and Alain Philippson Chair in Sustainable Human Development at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Raul Sanchez – Economist, Colombia University Raul Sanchez de la Sierra is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Columbia University. His main area of research is Political Economy of Development, with particular focus on issues such as violence and state formation, economics of identity, intra-household political economy, and impact evaluations of local governance interventions. He has also gained field research experience working on multiple projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2009, spending up to one year in the field. Rodrigo Serrano, Lead Social Development Specialist, Latin America Region, World Bank Rodrigo Serrano-Berthet is senior social development specialist for the Latin America and Caribbean Region at the World Bank. He is the focal point for the Bank’s Brazil, Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean citizen security and crime and violence prevention programs, as well as other high profile initiatives such as preventing crime and violence in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. His experience spans a range of social development issues, including social vulnerability to climate change, community driven development, and participatory local governance. Prior to joining the Bank in 2003, he worked as a consultant for several international organizations. He holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires, and a Master’s in City Planning and a PhD in Public Policy from MIT. Roseanna Ander - Executive Director, Chicago Crime Lab Roseanna Ander serves as the founding Executive Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab (2008) and the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab (2011). The University of Chicago Crime Lab and Urban Education Lab each works to help develop, implement and evaluate promising social policy interventions in a way that generates objective outcome data about what works and why, that is a rigorous as the gold standard for evidence used in medicine, another area where lives are at stake. It is based in part on the success of MIT’s “Poverty Action Lab” which has quickly become a world leader in applying similarly rigorous research methods to understanding how to address poverty and other social problems in the developing world. In January 2010, Ms. Ander was appointed to the International Association of Chiefs of Police Research Advisory Committee and to the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission. In March 2011, Ms. Ander was named co-chair of Chicago Mayor-Elect Rahm Emanuel’s 6 Public Safety Transition Committee. Prior to joining the University of Chicago, Ms. Ander oversaw the Joyce Foundation’s Gun Violence program, which makes annual grants of $3.3 million to support research and public policies aimed at reducing deaths and injuries from firearms. Ms. Ander also served as the developer and lead program officer for the Foundation’s grantmaking on Early Childhood Education. Prior to joining Joyce, she was a Soros Justice Fellow with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office where she worked on a range of issues including truancy, domestic violence and consumer protection. Ms. Ander has also worked for the Harvard Injury Control Center, the Harvard Center for Children’s Health, and the Harvard Project on Schooling and Children. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a master’s degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. Sara Heller, Assistant Professor of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania Sara Heller uses large-scale randomized control trials to investigate the impact and cost effectiveness of public policies to improve life outcomes for disadvantaged youth. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Chicago, an MA in Public Policy from Georgetown and BA in Psychology from Harvard. Professor Heller focuses primarily on field experiments testing the effects of treatment interventions on crime, education, and other life outcomes. Currently, Professor Heller is investigating the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy-based programming on juvenile crime and schooling outcomes. She is also conducting two related studies on the effects of summer jobs on youth, especially on their crime and labor market outcomes. Shrikant Bangdiwala, Research Professor, University of North Carolina Professor of Biostatistics, at University of North Carolina. Area of expertise is in randomized controlled trials, especially in interim analysis of clinical intervention studies and in analysis of clustered randomized community-based intervention studies. Chief statistician of the Injury Prevention Research center of UNC, the Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN), and the World Studies of Abuse in the Family Environment (WorldSAFE). Currently statistical advisor to the WHO Safe Communities program, a community based intervention for reducing injuries and violence. Dr. Bangdiwala has extensive experience in the design, conduct and analysis of multi-center studies, having worked on clinical trials in congestive heart failure, cardiovascular risk factors, functional bowel disease, and cancer prevention. Dr. Bangdiwala also has extensive experience as a member of various data and safety monitoring boards for studies in ophthalmology, HIV/AIDS, and cardiology. He collaborates with investigators at the Center on several studies, including research on brain imaging of IBS patients with and without a history of abuse and a comparative study of cognitive behavioral and anti-depressant treatment. Dr. Bangdiwala’s role in these projects includes helping with research design, developing statistical analytical strategies, overseeing data management and statistical analyses, and paper preparation. Vincenzo Di Maro, Economist, Development Impact Evaluation Vincenzo Di Maro is an Economist in the DIME group. He is leading the development of the IE program in Public Sector Governance and Justice (ieGovern) in collaboration with PREM and LEGJR. His work includes the supervision of the DIME-FPD program and the design, coordination and the analysis of several impact evaluations in topics that include community governance of education service delivery, nudging of individuals towards better financial decisions, and accountability mechanisms for environmental infrastructure investments. His published research has focused on the impact of Early Childhood and Conditional Cash Transfer programs and, in particular, their effect on consumption and nutrition. Currently, his research deals with tests of behavioral economics mechanisms. Before joining DIME, he was at the IADB as a Research Fellow and at Universita' Parthenope Napoli as an assistant 7 professor. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from University College London. He dreams of a world full of evidence on how to end poverty. Victor Orozco, Economist, Development Impact Evaluation Victor Orozco is an economist in DIME, where he coordinates the Africa HIV/AIDS Impact Evaluation Program (AIM-AIDS). His works focuses on the mechanisms to promote behavior change and includes several impact evaluations in the areas of HIV/AIDS, Maternal and child health, and Edu entertainment. Before joining DIME, Victor worked in the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) and in the Ministry of Economic Development of a state government in Mexico. He holds a Masters in Public Policy and Economics from Princeton University. Vincent Pons- Economist, MIT A graduate from Ecole Normale Supérieure of Ulm in France, Vincent Pons is currently completing his PhD in Economics at MIT, under the supervision of Esther Duflo and Benjamin Olken. He has run several scientific field experiments on political participation and poverty in France, Morocco, Kenya and India. He has recently accepted a faculty position at Harvard Business School, unit Business, Government, and the International Economy. 8