Our team

Claudia Boscan Medina
Summer Fellow, 2023

Claudia Boscan Medina is a dynamic professional in public policy and international affairs. Currently pursuing a Master's in Public Policy (MPP) at the University of Chicago, she holds a Bachelor's degree in International Studies from American University.
With experience at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the United Nations Foundation, the Aspen Institute, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and Amnesty International, Claudia has provided strategic advice, drafted policy briefs, and facilitated engagement with stakeholders. Her multicultural upbringing across Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, and Mexico, along with her fluency in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, equips her to navigate diverse cultural landscapes.
Passionate about promoting equitable policies and fostering international collaboration, Claudia seeks to leverage her expertise in law, public policy, and development to make a global impact. She is currently an Imago Summer Fellow in the Global Office and provides support to the Latin America Office projects.

Fernanda Benavides
Summer Fellow, 2023

Fernanda Benavides
Summer Fellow, 2023
Fernanda is a Master of Public Administration candidate at Columbia University, focusing on Economic and Political Development and specializing on Data Analytics and Quantitative Analysis. She has previous experience as a Planning and Research Director at Fundación MC, where she conducted the first two competitive funding processes launched by the foundation. In this role, she also supported, monitored, and evaluated the implementation of the six winning projects. Prior to that, Fernanda worked for two years at a management consulting firm, advising seven companies across various industries on strategic and financial initiatives. Her particular interests lie in social impact and poverty alleviation.
Fernanda holds a master's degree in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a bachelor's degree in Business and Economics from the same university. Currently, she is an Imago summer fellow, focusing on scaling up projects in Chile and providing internal strategy support.

Kevin Drumm
Summer Fellow, 2023

As a Summer Fellow, Kevin will be collaborating with the Cooperation Fund for Social Development (FONCODES) in Peru. He will also be interning with the World Bank’s Kenya Digital Public Works for Urban Resilience (DPWUR) project in Nairobi. Kevin is a student in the Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) Program at Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, he worked as a Program and Faculty Assistant with the MPA/ID Program, where he also conducted research on redistribution politics in India.
Kevin served as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 2016 to 2018, working on grassroots water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion in rural Peru. In 2019, he served as a Virtual Peace Corps Volunteer, for which he collaborated with the national leaders of the Peruvian social program Comedores Populares to develop and facilitate health promotion training in the context of food assistance programs in Peru. Kevin has also worked as a Spanish teacher, a small business financial manager, and an international education advisor. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and BA in Spanish from the University of Rhode Island.

Santiago Segovia
Summer Fellow, 2023

Santiago holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Economics from Universidad Externado (Colombia). He is in his second year of the Master’s in Computational Analysis and Public Policy (MSCAPP) at the University of Chicago.
He worked for six years at the Financial Stability Division at the Central Bank of Colombia, where he conducted data analysis, research, and policy recommendations focused on Colombia’s financial system. In 2021, he was a Data Science 4 All (DS4A) Fellow, a program offered jointly by the Colombian Ministry of Technology, Information and Communications, and Correlation One (USA), focused on teaching data science skills. This motivated him to pursue a degree at the intersection of data science and public policy. While in the MSCAPP, he worked at the Data Science Institute at the University of Chicago as a Community Data Fellow, helping local community organizations to determine how best to use data, build data capacity across program staff, and scope projects that advance their mission.
Santiago is interested in designing, implementing, and analyzing policies and programs while leveraging quantitative, qualitative, and data science methods that could help organizations scale up their impact and improve people’s livelihoods. He is currently an Imago Summer Fellow in the Knowledge Area, where he will be working on process tracing/agile toolkits and adaptive evaluation of some of Imago’s projects.

Sofia Aron
Summer Fellow, 2023

Sofia has 5 years of experience working in development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Previously, Sofia worked at the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), at the Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness Office. Before that she worked at the Ministry of Economics and Finance of Peru as Director of the Public Budget Monitoring and Formulation Office, heading the office that leads the allocation, definition of priorities and monitoring of the Peruvian national budget (US $ 54,500 million). Also she has experience at the Ministry of education of Peru where she led the design of a national strategy to close the digital gap within the Peruvian school system.
Sofia is currently studying a master’s in Public Administration and International Development (MPA-ID) from Harvard Kennedy School and she holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Universidad del Pacifico in Lima Peru.

Tanya Jain
Summer Fellow, 2023

Tanya's career spans four years in public and private consulting, where she has developed a profound understanding and proficiency in supporting state governments and civic organizations in India across a diverse range of sectors and dimensions. Her expertise is particularly notable in the areas of education, healthcare, gender, and employment, and she has actively contributed to projects involving program design, strategy development, and evaluation.
Tanya recently worked on a significant initiative in the state of Haryana, where she played a vital role in re-designing a financial assistance program for school children. As part of this project, she conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the existing program, identifying areas for improvement and providing valuable recommendations to enhance coverage, benefits, and the overall delivery of the program to citizens.
Academically, Tanya holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Hansraj College, University of Delhi, and is currently pursuing her Master's in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. She is an Imago Summer Fellow in the India Office, where she will be working on the adaptive evaluation of the social accelerator of the Self-Employed Women Association (SEWA).

Andrea Restrepo
Program Associate

Andrea is a Program Associate at Imago Global Grassroots for the Global office. She graduated from two bachelors degrees in International Relations and Political Science from the Universidad del Rosario in Colombia, and is currently finishing a specialist graduate degree from the Universidad de los Andes in Organizations, Social Responsibility and Development.
Prior to joining Imago, Andrea spent over two years working for the British Government in Colombia, participating in the final closure of the Prosperity Programme. She is interested in gender, economic development, peace building, environmental justice and sustainability.

Arundhita Bhanjdeo
Research Fellow, 2019 – 2023

Arundhita Bhanjdeo
Research Fellow, 2019 – 2023
Arundhita has worked across diverse research areas for the past nine years. Currently, she is working as an independent researcher, consulting with IFPRI, University of East Anglia, UK and Charities Aid Foundation, India. Previously she has worked with PRADAN (Professional Assistance for Development Action), a grassroots NGO working with women’s collectives in rural and remote parts of India. As a part of PRADAN, Arundhita has worked with IMAGO to conduct a qualitative study to assess the functionating of government promoted (NRLM)Self Help Groups in Madhya Pradesh in India. She has also worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the TIGR 2 ESS project led by the University of Cambridge on building Sustainable and Transformative Agrarian and Rural Trajectories. Her core interest lies in bringing grassroots voices, knowledge, practices and perspectives into research and policy narratives and shaping the field of developmental and social change. She has experience conducting action research on complex systems, sustainable food systems, sustainable livelihoods, distress migration in India, women’s collectives and an overall lens of gender and intersectionality.
Arundhita has a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Philosophy from Miranda House and Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. She completed her PhD as a ACIAR-John Allwright Fellow from Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Daniela Paz Cruzat
Research Fellow, 2022-2023

Daniela Paz Cruzat
Research Fellow, 2022-2023
Daniela holds a master's degree in international development, MPA/ID, from the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as undergraduate and graduate degrees in Economics from University of Chile. As a PhD student in Economics at UC Berkeley, Daniela's research interests are broad and include a variety of topics related to applied microeconomics. Her passion lies in addressing inequality, and most of her projects relate to its different forms.
Currently, Daniela is working on projects related to gender inequality in the labor market in Chile and Brazil. In addition, she has projects related to food economics where she studies the role of food banks and private initiatives to decrease waste.

Bhavika Kohli
Research Associate

Bhavika has a wide-ranging experience of working across non-governmental organisations and different levels of government in India. Her interests lie at the intersection of inclusive development and behavioral economics, which led her to work with NITI Aayog and different state governments over the last two years. She has been working on developing pathways to livelihood generation for women with disabilities, as a Program Director at ARISE Impact. Currently, she is leading the state-level planning of a monitoring and evaluation project aimed towards women empowerment at IMAGO India.
Bhavika holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi and continues to engage in development research courses by World Bank in the pursuit of honing her intellectual abilities.

Gayatri Rao
India Head Of Office
Gayatri Rao has more than 11 years of experience working with the private sector, civil society, UNDP, and the Government of India. She has worked with the National Rural Livelihoods Mission on women empowerment and poverty alleviation, as the Mission Manager for value chain development and organic farming across all States in India. Her work included the development and financing of farmer producer companies and women-led enterprises, the development of partnerships among technical support organizations, multilateral agencies, civil society, other Ministries, and individuals. She has also worked on citizen engagement campaigns in Bihar and Punjab, and in corporate strategy in the power and banking infrastructure sectors.
She holds a postgraduate degree in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, and a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where she was an Edward Mason Fellow.

Hannah Clifford
Program Manager

Hannah has seven years of program management experience in media development and gender-focused programming. She is a Program Manager at IMAGO after being a summer fellow in 2021.
Previously, Hannah worked as a Senior Program Manager at an international media development organization. She managed projects at the intersection of human rights, press freedom and access to information in Jordan, South Africa and across Canada focusing on Indigenous representation in media, combatting disinformation and misinformation and policy responses to support independent media in the country.
Hannah holds a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) where she specialized in Gender and Public Policy and Technology, Media and Communications. She also holds a certificate in Non-Profit Leadership for Impact, and is a graduate of the University of Toronto majoring in International Relations, and Peace, Conflict and Justice Studies and minoring in Women and Gender Studies. She is particularly interested in the intersection of representation, gender, public discourse, and policy.

Isabel Guerrero
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Scaling Up, Livelihoods
Isabel Guerrero
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Scaling Up, Livelihoods
Isabel Guerrero is driven to change the world in which she lives. Throughout her career, she’s helped those with the least break out of the cycle of poverty while celebrating the intrinsic beauty and dignity in each person. With this goal in mind, Isabel and Zachary Green co-founded IMAGO Global Grassroots, an organization focused on giving people living in poverty the tools to build their own destiny. Isabel worked for 30 years at the World Bank, including five years as Vice-President for the South Asia region, managing a US$39 billion portfolio.
While presenting a different set of challenges, Isabel’s work with IMAGO offers tremendous potential to change the world through tackling some of the most intractable development problems we face today.
In addition to her work with IMAGO, Isabel is on the board of the Presencing Institute at MIT and a Council Member of the United Nations University. She is an economist from London School of Economics and a psychoanalyst trained at the Washington Psychoanalytic Society. Isabel teaches “Scaling Up for Development Impact” at Harvard and is a Senior Lecturer in leadership at MIT.

Jimena Vallejos
Director of Programs
Jimena has over seven years of program management experience in poverty elimination and financial inclusion programs. She is Imago's Director of Programs and is working directly with Lever for Change, UN Women, SEWA Bharat, National Marine Mammal Foundation, the World Bank, and Poverty Stoplight. Previously, she worked as manager of the Poverty Stoplight, a participatory poverty assessment tool that has been replicated in over 29 countries and has consulted with the Government of Paraguay on Early Childhood Development policies. Jimena holds a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University. Prior to joining Imago, she was part of our Fellows’ program and collaborated with Transforming Rural India in New Delhi. She is a certified scrum master.

Johanan Rivera
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Johanan has over 12 years of experience working in both the public sector and with multilateral donors. He is the COO of IMAGO and is working directly with Gates, Pratham, TaRL Africa, NMMF, PCIC and Financiera Sustentable. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, and a master’s in Public Administration and International Development (MPA-ID) from Harvard Kennedy School.
Johanan is a member of the LGBTQ Victory Campaign Board. Prior to joining IMAGO, he worked in the evaluation department of both the Interamerican Development Bank and the World Bank. He is a certified scrum master and small group facilitator.

Jossie Fahsbender
Program Manager

Jossie has around 5 years of experience working in development projects, mainly in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is a Program Manager at IMAGO focused on the strategic development of the Latin American office. Currently, she is also working with the Division of Social Protection and Jobs at the World Bank on projects on labor markets and good quality jobs in Colombia, Mexico, and Chile.
Previously, Jossie worked with the Rural Development Division of the Inter-American Development Bank. She collaborated on the impact evaluation of rural development projects in several countries of Latin American and the Caribbean, including Bolivia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Peru, as well as contributing to the incorporation of a gender analysis component to the project assessments. Before joining the IDB, Jossie was an analyst at the Department of Economics Studies at the Central Reserve Bank of Peru.
Jossie holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Universidad de Piura, and a master’s in Public Administration and International Development (MPA-ID) from Harvard Kennedy School. She also holds a Certificate in Management, Leadership, and Decision Sciences from Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to joining IMAGO, she was part of our Summer Fellows program and collaborated with the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India.

Mauricio Martínez
Operations Manager

Mauricio Martínez
Operations Manager
Mauricio has around 4 years of experience working in the financial and commercial sector. Previously, Mauricio worked as a Financial Analyst for a banking institution in Paraguay, serving as the main point of contact between multilateral organizations and the bank.
While serving as a financial analyst Mauricio was in charge of managing the liquidity of the financial entity and negotiating time deposits with correspondent banks abroad. Mauricio has also worked as a Commercial Manager for a tech retail company in Paraguay, while serving in this role he conducted market research and analysis to create detailed business plans on commercial opportunities. Mauricio holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Kansas State University.

Michael Walton
Director For Economic Development, Research, And Strategy

Michael Walton
Director For Economic Development, Research, And Strategy
Michael has worked as a development economist for four decades and has lived in four continents. For the past 15 years this has increasingly involved working with the next generation, through teaching and field work. Throughout this time, his central interest, and role, has been to serve as a bridge between the worlds of ideas and practice. Michael has undertaken empirical research, involving primary data collection, using both quantitative and qualitative techniques; and he likes to engage with other disciplines, especially politics and anthropology. For the past six years, he has been working with grassroots organizations, in India, Latin America and the US, through IMAGO Global Grassroots, seeking to help them scale their innovations and practices.
In addition to his work with IMAGO, Michael is a senior lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi. He worked for 20 years at the World Bank, including as global Director for Poverty Reduction, Chief Economist for East Asia, and director of two World Development Reports. Michael is also a dancer and continue to take modern dance classes as an integral part of his life.

Navneet Bhatt
Senior Research Manager

Navneet has 11 years of experience working with the Private Sector, Civil Society, and State governments of Bihar and Odisha, India. His work cuts across various aspect of gender based equitable development. His experience is a balenced mix of implementation (of large interventions focussed on developing women led institutions of poor) and research assignments. He has led various qualitative and quantitative research studies and is adept in various social research methods. Before joining Imago, Navneet has worked with Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) where he designed and implemented research projects in RNMCH area.
He holds a postgraduate degree in management from the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, and a Masters in International Social and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science(LSE). He attended LSE on the prestigious Chevening Scholarship award.

Nicole Carpentier
Program Manager

Nicole Carpentier
Program Manager
Nicole has around 7 years of experience working in development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Previously, Nicole worked at Fundación Chile, a public-private institution that innovates on public issues, where she led the design and implementation of an unprecedented public-private partnership between the Chilean government and the mining sector to improve the quality of vocational education. Before that, she spent two years as a field coordinator and research analyst in J-PAL LAC, where she was part of the research team assessing the impact of a parental involvement program.
Nicole holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Universidad de Chile, and a master’s in Public Administration and International Development (MPA-ID) from Harvard Kennedy School. She also holds a Certificate in Management, Leadership, and Decision Sciences from Harvard Kennedy School.

Prakarsh Diwaker
Manager – Capacity Building

Prakarsh Diwaker
Manager – Capacity Building
Prakarsh has diverse experience of working with grassroot organizations, central government departments, and in engineering. He is currently part of the IMAGO India office. He has experience in project planning & implementation, creative problem-solving, stakeholder management and human-centered design. He is interested in people-centered communication, design thinking, and building humane & resilient organizations.
Prakarsh holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT (BHU), Varanasi and a Post Graduate Diploma in Liberal Studies (Young India Fellowship) from Ashoka University. A perpetual learner, he embraces the uncertainties and ambiguities with an overarching focus on leading a wholesome life of significance and joy.

Pritish Priyedarshi
Program Manager

Pritish Priyedarshi
Program Manager
Pritish has experience of more than five years of handling multiple Agri-Produce Value Chain interventions, driving tech-enabled projects in rural supply chain & distribution, and cultivating strategic partnerships with private and government. Before joining Imago Global Grassroots he worked with prominent organizations in Agri-Input, Commodity business, and AgTech industry where he handled a cross-functional set of roles in Business Development, Product Marketing, Forward & Backwards Linkages, and Strategy while working closely with Farmer community and Collective institutions - FPOs, SHGs, Co-operatives, and other stakeholders. At Imago Global Grassroots, Pritish takes care of Scale Up Program Implementation for two states in India.
Pritish is passionate about helping build sustainable and scalable rural enterprises which lead towards solving intrinsic issues of the farming landscape in India and aid the economic upliftment of rural households by creating opportunities for their deeper participation in commerce.
Pritish graduated from Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar with a degree in Rural Management in 2018.

Rameshwara Nand Jha
State Program Manager

Rameshwara Nand Jha
State Program Manager
Rameshwara has more than 9 years of experience working with the private sector, civil society organisations and the Government of Kerala. Prior to this, as part of the Mission Karmayogi he supported the Capacity Building Commission (Govt. of India) in designing
the competency-based capacity development training systems for public sector employees. He has also worked with Kudumbashree NRO on economic and social empowerment of women and poverty alleviation. His work included establishing systems and processes for the flagship entrepreneurship programs (SVEP) under National Rural Livelihood Mission, Ministry of Rural Development across multiple states.
Rameshwara has also worked on product planning in the automotive sector. He holds an undergraduate degree in engineering from VIT University, M.A in Development from Azim Premji University and M.A in Public Policy from Harris School of
Public Policy, University of Chicago, where he was an Obama Scholar.

Ria Dutta
Senior Research Associate

Ria is a Senior Research Associate at IMAGO Global Grassroots where she is leading the state-level planning and implementation for convergence of NRLM and MGNREGA across Madhya Pradesh and supporting the same in Bihar.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender, labour economics and entrepreneurship. She has previously worked at J-PAL South Asia and IFMR LEAD (now LEAD at Krea University).
She did her undergraduate studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences and her Master's in Public policy and Governance from Azim Premji University

Siddhant Gokhale
Knowledge Manager

Siddhant has four years of experience working in development economics research. He built the knowledge vertical in IMAGO and is responsible for leading IMAGO’s learning agenda, strategy, and framework. He co-wrote a theoretical paper on adaptive evaluation with Michael Walton and is closely involved with an adaptive evaluation on the convergence of social and economic programs for women’s empowerment in India. Siddhant previously worked as a Research Associate at the Behavioral Development Lab, establishing J-PAL South Asia’s first project in the state of Goa. In Goa, he led a project that examined the effect of low-cost, peer-delivered psychotherapy to treat depression among the poor on economic well-being. Earlier, he worked with IFMR LEAD (now LEAD at Krea University), in which he was actively involved, in varying capacities, with randomized control evaluations on the impact of sleep deprivation and chronic pain on economic decision-making.
Siddhant holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Cornell University and a master’s degree in economics from Columbia University. He also has a Master’s in Public Administration and International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School. He was a part of IMAGO’s Summer Fellowship in 2020.

Siddharth Yadav
Senior Associate

Siddharth Yadav
Senior Associate
Siddharth works as a Senior Associate at IMAGO Global Grassroots, working primarily with the India Office.
His previous assignments as Senior Research Associate at LEAD at KREA University were to study the methodologies to estimate the prevalence of bonded/forced labor in Tamil Nadu, India, and understanding the role of last-mile technology-based solutions to remove barriers to business growth among rural artisans in Rajasthan, India. His primary research interests include questions in the field of labor economics and poverty alleviation in South Asia.
Siddharth holds a master’s degree in Development Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Hansraj College, University of Delhi.

Zachary Green
Co-Founder & Director for Leadership and Training
Zachary has 30 years of experience working with grassroots organizations, helping them unleash possibilities and reach their deeper potential. He has a PhD in Clinical and Community Psychology from Boston University, and Med in Counseling from Cleveland University. He is an executive coach, Professor of Practice, and the Associate Director of the Leadership Institute at the University of San Diego.

Claudia Rivas
Summer Fellow, 2022

Claudia Rivas
Summer Fellow, 2022
Claudia has five years of experience working with the government and multilateral organizations in Peru to strengthen delivery capacity at the local level. At the Ministry of Education, she worked closely with the local education boards to improve budget execution and textbooks delivery to schools. Then, she joined the World Bank, where she supported the design of projects targeting school management and teacher professional development. Here, she also accompanied the design of EdTech projects in Paraguay, Costa Rica and Brazil. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with different NGOs in the fields of education, civic engagement and entrepreneurship.
Claudia holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Universidad del Pacífico (Peru), and is in her second year of the master’s in Public Administration and International Development (MPA-ID) at the Harvard Kennedy School.
She is currently an Imago Summer Fellow in the India Office, where she will be working in the adaptive evaluation of the social accelerator of Self-Employed Women Association (SEWA).

Geet Chawla
Summer Fellow, 2022

Geet Chawla
Summer Fellow, 2022
Geet Chawla is a Master of Public Administration (MPA) candidate at Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) where her concentration is Economic and Political Development her specialization is International Conflict Resolution.
Geet has previously worked in a variety of industries—including journalism, aerospace, not-for-profit, financial services, management consulting, and technology. Most recently, she developed and operationalized a growth strategy for a large offshore team at Better, a New York-based FinTech startup. She grew up in India and is fluent in English, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu. She is particularly interested in the intersection of international law, public policy, and development and hopes to transition to a globally impactful career after graduating from Columbia University.
Geet holds a BA in Business Administration with a double concentration in Finance and Entrepreneurship from University of Washington, Michael G. Foster of Business. She is currently a Summer Fellow at IMAGO where she is working on rolling out interventions for social enterprises under the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) as well as providing internal strategy support for IMAGO’s India office.

Ignacia Lecaros
Research Fellow, 2022 – 2023

Ignacia Lecaros
Research Fellow, 2022 – 2023
Ignacia Lecaros has five years of experience working in the public sector and non-profit organizations focusing on reducing poverty and inequality in the world, especially among marginalized groups. She worked first as a project manager in a non-profit organization that contributes to the reintegration of people deprived of liberty in the Chilean prison system. Then, she worked at the Ministry of Social Development within the Government of Chile as a Department of Studies Analyst. At the Ministry, she worked analyzing and evaluating social programs of the government. Also, she was in the team that determined the allocation of the bonus for families in Chile during the pandemic COVID-19.
She studied a B.A in Economics and Business at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Later on, she studied an M.A in Economics concentrating on Public Policy. At the time, she is a second-year graduate student at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) pursuing a Master of Public Administration degree focusing on Social Policy, Gender, and Development.
Ignacia is currently working as an intern at IMAGO Global Grassroots on Latin America-focused projects in adaptive evaluation, scaling up grassroots projects, organizing a program for emerging leaders in Chile, and conducting research on inequality in Chile.

Ignacia Lecaros
Summer Fellow, 2022

Ignacia Lecaros
Summer Fellow, 2022
Ignacia Lecaros has five years of experience working in the public sector and non-profit organizations focusing on reducing poverty and inequality in the world, especially among marginalized groups. She worked first as a project manager in a non-profit organization that contributes to the reintegration of people deprived of liberty in the Chilean prison system. Then, she worked at the Ministry of Social Development within the Government of Chile as a Department of Studies Analyst. At the Ministry, she worked analyzing and evaluating social programs of the government. Also, she was in the team that determined the allocation of the bonus for families in Chile during the pandemic COVID-19.
She studied a B.A in Economics and Business at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Later on, she studied an M.A in Economics concentrating on Public Policy. At the time, she is a second-year graduate student at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) pursuing a Master of Public Administration degree focusing on Social Policy, Gender, and Development.
Ignacia is currently working as an intern at IMAGO Global Grassroots on Latin America-focused projects in adaptive evaluation, scaling up grassroots projects, organizing a program for emerging leaders in Chile, and conducting research on inequality in Chile.

Isabela Fonseca
Summer Fellow, 2022

Isabela Fonseca
Summer Fellow, 2022
Isabela is currently pursuing her Master’s in Public Policy at the University of Chicago, with a focus on International Development and Education.
Prior to pursuing her graduate degree, Isabela worked at Simple Mills, where she continues to consult, analyzing sales and consumer data for their growing business. Previously, Isabela worked for over 4years in the Beauty industry in various Data Analysis capacities. Out of college, she began as an HR data analyst at L’Oréal, shifting over the next 2 years to Business Analysis. After L’Oréal, she worked at Revlon doing category and competitive business and consumer analysis.
Isabela holds a bachelor’s degree from NYU in Economics and Politics, with a minor in Mathematics. She is currently an IMAGO summer fellow at the LATAM office. She is primarily focused on IMAGO’s developing projects in Brazil, where she is from.

Ojas
Research Fellow, 2022 – 2023

Ojas
Research Fellow, 2022 – 2023
Ojas comes with five years of experience in the development landscape in India and has worked across sectors and verticals. She spent the initial years of her career at Samhita Social Ventures assessing and furthering the impact of large-scale social impact programs funded by CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility.) She also led Monitoring and Evaluation for Samhita’s national COVID-19 response program, REVIVE – a blended finance facility and livelihood accelerator to help informal workers and micro-entrepreneurs recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and thrive. Ojas is passionate about designing equitable health systems in developing countries and has experience in leading process design and quality improvement at Swasth Foundation, a grassroots primary healthcare organization based in Mumbai, India.
Ojas holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce (Delhi, India) and a post-graduate diploma in Liberal Arts from Ashoka University (Sonipat, India). She is currently a second-year student pursuing her Masters in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
She is currently an Imago Summer Fellow in the Global Office.

Pablo Tillan
Research Fellow, 2022 – 2023

Pablo Tillan
Research Fellow, 2022 – 2023
Pablo is a Masters in Public Administration in International Development candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Prior to commencing his graduate studies, Pablo was a poverty consultant in the Bangladesh poverty team of the Poverty and Equity division of the World Bank. In his role, he focused on the analysis of the dynamics of rural incomes in Bangladesh and understanding welfare implications of displaced populations within the scope of the Rohingya refugee crisis. Previously, Pablo worked in government institutions of San Juan, Argentina and Merida, Mexico. Pablo holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Universidad Catolica de Cuyo and a master in Economic Development and Growth from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Ojas
Summer Fellow, 2022

Ojas
Summer Fellow, 2022
Ojas comes with five years of experience in the development landscape in India and has worked across sectors and verticals. She spent the initial years of her career at Samhita Social Ventures assessing and furthering the impact of large-scale social impact programs funded by CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility.) She also led Monitoring and Evaluation for Samhita’s national COVID-19 response program, REVIVE – a blended finance facility and livelihood accelerator to help informal workers and micro-entrepreneurs recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and thrive. Ojas is passionate about designing equitable health systems in developing countries and has experience in leading process design and quality improvement at Swasth Foundation, a grassroots primary healthcare organization based in Mumbai, India.
Ojas holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce (Delhi, India) and a post-graduate diploma in Liberal Arts from Ashoka University (Sonipat, India). She is currently a second-year student pursuing her Masters in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
She is currently an Imago Summer Fellow in the Global Office.

Pablo Tillan
Summer Fellow, 2022

Pablo Tillan
Summer Fellow, 2022
Pablo is a Masters in Public Administration in International Development candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Prior to commencing his graduate studies, Pablo was a poverty consultant in the Bangladesh poverty team of the Poverty and Equity division of the World Bank. In his role, he focused on the analysis of the dynamics of rural incomes in Bangladesh and understanding welfare implications of displaced populations within the scope of the Rohingya refugee crisis.
Previously, Pablo worked in government institutions of San Juan, Argentina and Merida, Mexico. Pablo holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Universidad Catolica de Cuyo and a master in Economic Development and Growth from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Sarah Nzau
Summer Fellow, 2022

Sarah Nzau
Summer Fellow, 2022
Sarah is interested in the design, implementation, and analysis of policies and programs aimed at alleviating poverty in Kenya, especially in the education sector. She is a candidate for the Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS).
Prior to HKS, she worked on issues related to economic mobility at The Brookings Institution as a project manager and senior research assistant in the Economic Studies program. Sarah also worked at The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL Global), where she contributed to J-PAL’s policy team’s mission to analyze and disseminate research results to ensure policy is driven by scientific evidence.
Sarah holds a B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College, and she spent a year studying abroad at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is currently a Summer Fellow at IMAGO’s global office where she contributes to Knowledge and Communication management.

Sneha Venkata Krishnan
Summer Fellow, 2022

Sneha Venkata Krishnan
Summer Fellow, 2022
Sneha has 4+ years of experience in public health consulting, partnerships with the Ministry of Health in India and financial marketing analytics. She earlier worked with Clinton Health Access Initiative to introduce and scale public health interventions, for improving the lives of pregnant women and infants. In 2020, I collaborated with the Ministry of Health to lead COVID-19 diagnostics for India. Previously, at Citibank, I led marketing analytics efforts and gained exposure on financial markets and modeling.
She holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi. She is a Master in Public Administration in International Development candidate at Harvard Kennedy School.
She is currently an IMAGO Summer Fellow in the Global Office where she is offering strategic support in developing the implementation roadmap for the UN Women Strategic Plan.

Vivek Kaila
Summer Fellow, 2022

Vivek Kaila
Summer Fellow, 2022
Vivek is interested in the political economy of development, specifically relating to the emerging economies of South Asia, Latin America and Africa. His policy interests include gender, education and poverty alleviation, with particular emphasis on key drivers of inequality that lie at the intersection of market mechanisms, and non-market factors such as systemic discrimination, class stratification, and social exclusion.
He has previously worked in education. He was a researcher in STEM pedagogy at the University of Colorado for the CIRTL Network, a national network of research universities focused on advancing effective teaching practices for STEM in the United States. He has also worked with first generation school-and college-goers in India’s Northeastern state of Meghalaya. As a Summer Fellow at Imago, Vivek is working with grassroots social enterprises in India like SEWA and TRIF, in collaboration with the National Rural Livelihood Mission, to improve women’s agency and economic empowerment in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
Prior to studying international development and policy at The University of Chicago’s Harris School, Vivek worked as an aerospace engineer. He did post-doctoral work at the University of Colorado and worked for the Indian Government’s Defence Research and Development Organisation. He has degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Physics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.

Carmen Hernandez-Ruiz
Summer Fellow, 2021

Carmen Hernandez-Ruiz
Summer Fellow, 2021
Carmen is a candidate for the Masters in Public Administration in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Prior to commencing her graduate studies, Carmen worked as a social protection consultant for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. In these roles, she focused on policy analysis on social programs, labor market, care policy, and barriers to female labor participation in Mexico and Latin America.
Carmen has a strong interest in advancing gender equality and social inclusion with evidence-based strategies. In addition, she has experience working on international economics and monetary policy since she started her career at the Economic Research Division of the Central Bank of Mexico. Carmen holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE).

Hannah Clifford
Summer Fellow, 2021

Hannah Clifford
Summer Fellow, 2021
Hannah is a Masters of Public Administration in Development Practice candidate at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, specializing in Gender and Public Policy. She is particularly interested in the intersection of representation, gender, public discourse, and policy.
Prior to SIPA, Hannah worked for five years at an international media development organization. She managed projects at the intersection of human rights, press freedom, and access to information in Jordan, South Africa, and across Canada focusing on Indigenous representation in media, combating misinformation and disinformation, and supporting independent media.
Hannah is a graduate of the University of Toronto majoring in International Relations and Peace, Conflict, and Justice studies, and minoring in Women and Gender Studies.

Jessica Peck
Summer Fellow, 2021

Jessica Peck
Summer Fellow, 2021
Jessica Peck is a Masters of Public Administration in Development Practice candidate at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA.) At SIPA, she is focusing her studies on both global food systems and the potential for social enterprise to address development challenges.
Prior to SIPA, Jessica was a Senior Program Analyst at the Howard G. Buffett Foundation where she oversaw $100M+ in grants in Africa and Latin America. The grants were primarily related to the intersection of environmental concerns and livelihood building opportunities in agricultural development. Jessica received her BA in Spanish and French, with a minor in International Development, from the University of Notre Dame. While there, she studied abroad in Paris, France, and Toledo, Spain, and received funding for two independent research projects: an evaluation of a community-based organization in El Salvador and research on urban agriculture in Santiago, Chile.

Julia Tauscher
Summer Fellow, 2021

Julia Tauscher
Summer Fellow, 2021
Julia is a candidate for the Master of Public Administration in Development Practice at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. Julia also holds a B.A. in Political Science and Government and an M.A. in Applied Economics.
Before commencing her graduate studies, Julia joined the Buenos Aires City Government’s Delivery Unit to support the Mayor’s top priorities. She also led a program of evidence-based initiatives to perform evaluations and to apply behavioral science interventions. Julia is interested in leveraging evidence-based policy design to raise the accountability and effectiveness of policymaking in developing countries.

Kevin Vu
Summer Fellow, 2021

Kevin Vu
Summer Fellow, 2021
Kevin is currently a candidate at the School of International Public Affairs, pursuing a Masters of Public Administration in Development Practice at Columbia University. Prior to starting his master’s degree, Kevin served as a Peace Corps Community Economic Development Volunteer in Mbacké, Senegal. In this role, Kevin worked with the Ministry of Community Development to consult community members in MSME development and gender empowerment to build human capital and spark economic growth within the area.
Kevin initially started his career as a Certified Public Accountant and worked in the venture capital practices of KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers audit and tax teams, respectively. He was part of initial-public offering audit engagements and assisted in the tax preparation for Venture Capital partnerships through his experience at these accounting firms.

Nadine Bibawi
Summer Fellow, 2021

Nadine Bibawi
Summer Fellow, 2021
Nadine is a candidate for the Masters of Public Administration in Development Practice at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. She is passionate about bridging the gap between technology and sustainable development through social entrepreneurship among marginalized and vulnerable populations.
During her time at SIPA, Nadine led a team of graduate consultants in assisting a non-profit social innovation and venture philanthropy organization launch its first for-profit fund to support social entrepreneurs of color scale their impact in the future of the work sector.
Prior to commencing her graduate studies, Nadine spent six years working in the IT industry as a storage engineer before moving to a business development position in a development and innovation consulting firm in Cairo, Egypt. Nadine holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Informatics from the German University in Cairo, Egypt.

Isabella Maina
Summer Fellow, 2020

Isabella Maina
Summer Fellow, 2020
Isabella is a candidate for the Masters in Public Administration in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS). Prior to commencing her graduate studies, Isabella was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in Nairobi. Isabella worked on both public and private sector strategies across Africa, with a focus on economic development. Some of her work includes industrial promotion, investment attraction for national flagship projects, and research on Chinese economic engagement in Africa.
Previously, Isabella was a Business Development Associate at a startup Buymore, focusing on strategic partnerships and product development. Isabella holds a B.Sc. in Financial Economics, first class honours, from Strathmore University, Kenya.

Jossie Fahsbender
Summer Fellow, 2020

Jossie Fahsbender
Summer Fellow, 2020
Jossie is a candidate for the Masters in Public Administration in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Prior to graduate school, Jossie was a consultant at the Rural Development Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, D.C. She collaborated on the impact evaluation of rural development projects, including the design, sampling, data collection and analysis. She participated in studies for several countries of Latin American and the Caribbean region, including Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua and Peru. She also contributed to the incorporation of a gender analysis component to the project assessments.
Before joining the IDB, Jossie was as an analyst at the Department of Economics Studies of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, where she worked in the compilation of the national accounts. Jossie is a graduate of the Universidad de Piura with a major in Economics.

Katherin Martinez Gomez
Summer Fellow, 2020

Katherin Martinez Gomez
Summer Fellow, 2020
Katherin is a candidate for the Master in Public Administration in Development Practice at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. Prior to commencing her graduate studies, Katherin worked as an Economic Advisor at the National Planning Department in Colombia. In this role, Katherin advised the royalties director and lead the investment target planning for the regional investment in the country.
Katherin started her career at Citibank Colombia, analyzing risk for the portfolio of small and medium enterprises-SME. There, she developed a strong ability for conducting financial analysis, as well as to create effective strategies for mitigating risk and uncertainty. Katherin is a graduate of La Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia, with a major in Economics.

Siddhant Gokhale
Summer Fellow, 2020

Siddhant Gokhale
Summer Fellow, 2020
Siddhant is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Public Administration and International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Prior to Harvard, Siddhant worked as a research associate at the Behavioral Development Lab at J-PAL South Asia on a project based in Goa that examines the effect of low-cost, peer-delivered psychotherapy on economic well-being. Earlier, he worked with IFMR LEAD on the scoping of early-stage projects on how savings behavior is correlated with subjective probabilities of life events and the impact of loneliness among migrant factory workers in Chennai.
Siddhant holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Cornell University and a master’s degree in economics from Columbia University. His interests lie in the intersection between behavioral and development economics.

Summer Siman Li
Summer Fellow, 2020

Summer Siman Li
Summer Fellow, 2020
Summer is a dual-degree candidate for the Master in Public Policy (MPP) at the Harvard Kennedy School and Master in Business Administration (MBA) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Before graduate school, Summer worked as a management consultant at McKinsey and Company across Europe with a focus on public sector, private equity and principal investors, and strategy work. She drove recruiting and activities for women in her office as a Female Committee member and also worked on collaborations with Teach First Denmark and CEMS.
Concurrently, she was the Vice-Chairman and ran fundraising for a non-profit providing creative after-school classes in Copenhagen and spent a summer in Ladakh, India, supporting and teaching young nuns. Summer is a graduate of Copenhagen Business School with a BSc in International Business whose interest in education and economic empowerment was awakened during her exchange semester in Hong Kong, during which she travelled and volunteered in rural China and Southeast Asia.

Thomas Brown
Summer Fellow, 2020

Thomas Brown
Summer Fellow, 2020
Thomas is a candidate for the Masters in Public Administration in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS). He is passionate about combining analytical approaches with qualitative research and human-centered design to improve service delivery in developing countries.
Prior to commencing his graduate studies, Thomas spent four years in Indonesia, first working as an anthropological researcher focused on refugee communities, and subsequently as a research analyst at the World Bank in Jakarta. There he worked on a range of community driven development and governance programs focused on improving early childhood development, education and maternal health service delivery in rural and remote regions. Whilst in Indonesia he co-founded the Jakarta Development Network and served as president of Same Skies, an NGO that supports the provision of education and other services to asylum seeker and refugee children across Southeast Asia. Following this he worked as a researcher working in early childhood development, supporting randomized control trials and population surveys projects in Laos, Tonga, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Samoa.

Anais Anderson
Summer Fellow, 2019

Anais Anderson
Summer Fellow, 2019
Anais is a candidate for the Masters in Public Administration in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS). Prior to commencing her graduate studies, Anais worked as an analyst at the Economic Research Division of the Central Bank of Mexico. In that capacity, Anais produced research on labor markets in Mexico, as well as the impact of social policy in the labor market.
Having developed a strong interest in social inequalities since she was young, Anais started her career as an RA for a Mexican NGO-her first hands-on experience with the design, implementation, and evaluation of social projects. Anais is a graduate of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) with a double major in Economics and Political Science.

Claudia Caceres
Summer Fellow, 2019

Claudia Caceres
Summer Fellow, 2019
Claudia is a candidate for the Masters in Public Administration in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Before commencing her graduate studies, Claudia was a Labor Policy Specialist at the Governmental Delivery Unit in the Peruvian Prime Minister’s Office. In that role, she advised and monitored the second-line management of the Ministries of Economy, Labor, and Production in planning and implementing prioritized policies for achieving the government’s goal of labor formalization. Previously, Claudia worked as an Economic Studies Specialist in that same office, analyzing data related to the government priorities to assess their level of implementation and identify bottlenecks.
Claudia started her career at the Ministry of Education, collaborating on the development and monitoring of new educational policies. There, she developed a range of monitoring systems and created roadmaps for improvement for different schemes that existed under the Ministry. Claudia is a graduate of the Universidad de Piura with a major in Economics.

Vaishnavi Bala
Summer Fellow, 2019

Vaishnavi Bala
Summer Fellow, 2019
Vaishnavi is a Masters in Development Practice student at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). She specializes in Gender and Public Policy. During her time at SIPA, Vaishnavi has worked with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in Gujarat, India, to help their smallholder farmers build climate resilience by identifying agricultural technologies that suit their needs.
Before her graduate studies, Vaishnavi spent close to four years working in investment banking in Chennai, India. During her time at graduate school, Vaishnavi has developed a keen interest in working with the economic and social inclusion of refugees affected by conflict, by improving their access to education, training, and livelihood opportunities, while adapting a gender-sensitive approach.

Emily Hsaio
Summer Fellow, 2018

Emily Hsaio
Summer Fellow, 2018
Emily is a dual-degree candidate for the Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) at the Harvard Kennedy School and Master in Business Administration (MBA) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to her graduate studies, Emily worked for 5 years as a management consultant at Bain and Company across Tokyo, Taipei, and Chicago, where her experience spanned the technology, finance, infrastructure, and consumer packaged goods industries.
In addition, Emily worked for a year as an Innovation and Change Management Consultant at the United Nations World Food Programme, where her work focused on increasing efficiency and knowledge management. Alongside her career in consulting, Emily co-founded an education technology company called Nesuku, which aims to help private instructors better manage and grow their businesses.

Erika Caballero Montoya
Summer Fellow, 2018

Erika Caballero Montoya
Summer Fellow, 2018
Erika is a candidate for the Masters in Public Administration in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Prior to commencing her graduate studies, Erika was the Deputy Director of Research and Analysis of the Financial Market at the Ministry of Finance for Mexico. In that capacity, Erika analyzed data on global development to assess their impact on Mexico’s macroeconomic fundamentals.
Alongside her professional career, Erika collaborated with CREA, an organization that develops and implements programs designed to empower women entrepreneurs in deprived areas, where she led a project to implement a business plan at a textile processing business in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. Erika started her career at the Central Bank of Mexico where she performed forecasts on cash flow management strategies in order to ensure the effective transmission of Monetary Policy. Erika is a graduate of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México with a major in Economics.

Homa Koohi
Summer Fellow, 2018

Homa Koohi
Summer Fellow, 2018
Homa is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Administration, International Development (MPA/ID) at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Before joining Kennedy school as an student, Homa was a Research Assistant at MIT, Sloan School of Management. In that role, she investigated how retail industry corporations can transition effectively from “bad jobs strategy” to “good jobs strategy”, in which employees have higher wages, more predictable schedules and more advancement opportunities. In this research, Homa focused on designing and developing human subject experiments to understand barriers to effective implementation of this transition.
Previously, Homa worked with several educational non-profits in Iran, including Asemaan, where she worked as an executive and project manager, developing systems thinking skills in young children. Homa holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Sharif University of Technology, Iran.

Jimena Vallejos
Summer Fellow, 2018

Jimena Vallejos
Summer Fellow, 2018
Jimena has over seven years of program management experience in poverty elimination and financial inclusion programs. She worked as manager of the Poverty Stoplight, a participatory poverty assessment tool that has been replicated in over 29 countries and has consulted with the Government of Paraguay on Early Childhood Development policies.
Jimena holds a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University. Prior to joining IMAGO, she was part of our Fellows’ program and collaborated with Transforming Rural India in New Delhi. She is a certified scrum master.

Niriksha Shetty
Summer Fellow, 2018

Niriksha Shetty
Summer Fellow, 2018

Yalda Amini
Summer Fellow, 2018

Yalda Amini
Summer Fellow, 2018
Yalda is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Policy Administration in International Development at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Before attending Harvard, Yalda worked as a data analyst and policy consultant in Iran’s Ministry of Social Welfare. She also has experience as a public relations supervisor in the private sector, IT industry. She has MBA and BSc in Electrical Engineering.

Namrata Saraogi
Summer Fellow, 2017

Namrata Saraogi
Summer Fellow, 2017
Namrata is currently pursuing a Master’s in Public Administration, International Development (MPA/ID) at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. Previously, Namrata was working with the World Bank Group on education policies and service delivery in East Asia and Pacific, South Asia and Middle East.
Namrata holds a B.A. Honors in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University and an M.Sc. in Economics from University College London.

Paroma Husain
Summer Fellow, 2017

Paroma Husain
Summer Fellow, 2017
Paroma is a development professional with more than 5 years of international experience in microfinance, digital financial services, qualitative research and project management. She worked as a Deputy Manager at BRAC – one of world’s largest NGOs – for nearly 4 years in several large-scale projects in Bangladesh and Uganda. She holds a Bachelor degree in Finance from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a Master degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University – where she studied Development Economics and Business for Social Impact. She has also consulted for various financial institutions and development agencies including FinTech Sandbox, Fundación Paraguay, and IMAGO Global Grassroots.

Ricardo Pommer Muñoz
Research Fellow, 2022 – 2023

Ricardo Pommer Muñoz
Research Fellow, 2022 – 2023
Ricardo's work applies modern behavioral economic theory to development contexts, with a particular focus on climate change. He is a member of the Cognition and Decision Lab at Columbia University, which is an interdisciplinary team that develops and tests novel advances in decision-making in economics, psychology, and cognitive science. His work has continually attempted to formalize and analyze the processes and information constraints that lead to high-stakes decisions in the real world and spans statistical topic models of the Chilean constitution to predict changes in political regimes and freedoms, sentiment analysis of the constitutional discussion, experimental tests of changes in demand for climate abatement products, and bounded rationality models of decision-making.
Ricardo holds a Bachelor's in Psychology from New York University, a Master's in Statistics from Columbia University, and is currently a doctoral candidate in Economics at Columbia University.

Surili Sheth
Research Fellow, 2017, 2019 – 2023

Surili Sheth
Research Fellow, 2017, 2019 – 2023
Surili brings experience in governance, gender, rural livelihoods, data analytics, program evaluation, and community development work in India and other developing countries. Prior to joining IMAGO, she served as Manager for IDinsight, in the Concurrent Evaluation Cell for the Andhra Pradesh Society for the Elimination of Rural Poverty (Ministry of Rural Development) and for various other governance -related projects. She has also worked with the MIT Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL South Asia), the Affordable Housing Institute, and the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics in Kenya. Surili holds a B.S. in Economics and Political Science from The Ohio State University and a Masters in Public Administration, International Development (MPA/ID) from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Vinicius Bueno
Research Fellow, 2022 – 2023

Vinicius Bueno
Research Fellow, 2022 – 2023
Vinicius is pursuing a Master of Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and is working as a research assistant in education projects in Recife, Brazil. Previously, he graduated from two of the best universities in Brazil - in Public Administration at FGV and in Economics at USP. His purpose is to build a world in which any child, regardless of social origin or any other characteristic, has ample opportunities to dream and achieve their dreams and reach their full potential.
Vinicius dedicated his entire career to social impact, especially to large-scale educational policies - at the São Paulo State Department of Education, at the Brazilian Ministry of Education, and at the Lemann Foundation. At the São Paulo State Department of Education, Vinicius led the "Learning Management", a priority project whose objective was to improve the learning of almost 3.5 million students in the state.
Prior to that, Vinicius worked at the Democratic National Committee; at the GPP Lab (public policy management laboratory that promotes events and research on how to make the State more efficient, effective, and innovative); and at the São Paulo State Department of Planning and Regional Development.

Zeineb Ben Yahmed
Research Fellow, 2023

Zeineb Ben Yahmed
Research Fellow, 2023
Zeineb is a Tunisian national and a public policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to Harvard, she was a fellow at the World Bank, where she supported early childhood development projects in the MENA region. She was also a Research Analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where her research focused on the political economy of the MENA region.
Zeineb holds a Master's degree in Political Economy from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a Bachelor's degree with a double major in Economics and Politics from SOAS. She is fluent in Arabic, French, and English.

Vince Jeong
Summer Fellow, 2017

Vince Jeong
Summer Fellow, 2017
Vince is a consultant at McKinsey & Company and a recent graduate of Harvard Kennedy School’s MPA/ID Program. Throughout his career, he has focused on tackling development issues from different angles: as a management consultant advising global development organizations, as a project manager leading program implementation for a healthcare NGO in Tanzania, and as a business designer launching new companies for the emerging Latin American middle class at a venture builder in Colombia. Vince graduated top of his class in the Operations Research & Financial Engineering Department from Princeton University.

Marcela Gutierrez
Summer Fellow, 2016

Marcela Gutierrez
Summer Fellow, 2016
Marcela is a research analyst at the World Bank Group. When she was working with IMAGO she was pursuing a Masters in Public Administration and International Development at the Kennedy School of Government. Prior to graduate school, Marcela gained five years of experience designing, implementing and evaluating social programs in more than 10 countries in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and the Western Balkans. Among others, she worked with the World Bank as project coordinator of the STEP Skills Measurement Program (the first initiative to measure cognitive and socio-emotional skills in developing countries). Prior to that, she was the Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Social Protection and Inclusion in Peru. Marcela graduated cum laude from Universidad de los Andes with Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business Management.

Ronnie Brodsky
Summer Fellow, 2016

Ronnie Brodsky
Summer Fellow, 2016
Ronnie is pursuing joint Masters degrees in Business Administration and Economic Policy (an MBA and MPA-ID) at the Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Prior to graduate school, Ronnie worked in data-driven policy consulting for seven U.S. government agencies, focusing on financial regulation and loan guarantee programs. She has also worked in humanitarian relief in Guatemala. Ronnie graduated first in her graduating class and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics.

Kerry Yang
Imago Fellow, 2014-2015

Kerry Yang
Imago Fellow, 2014-2015
Kerry is a second year PhD candidate in Financial Economics at Columbia University, with a focus on credit and banking systems. She has experience working in investment banking at Morgan Stanley in New York, consulting at McKinsey & Company in China, and investing with Acumen Fund in West Africa. Prior to her PhD, she completed her MBA/MPA-ID at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Kerry has worked with IMAGO in various capacities since 2014, in both Ahmadabad and Washington DC. Kerry is from South Kingstown, Rhode Island, and studied Economics at Harvard College.

Lucila Arboleya
Imago Fellow, 2014-2015

Lucila Arboleya
Imago Fellow, 2014-2015
Lucila holds a Masters in Public Administration and International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School. She has several years of experience working in the energy and infrastructure sector, focused on trading of oil derivatives and solar power. She also served as a television anchor of economics for two years, and has co-founded two NGOs, one in education and another focused on volunteering.

Isabel Guerrero
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Scaling Up, Livelihoods
Isabel Guerrero
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Scaling Up, Livelihoods
Isabel Guerrero is driven to change the world in which she lives. Throughout her career, she’s helped those with the least break out of the cycle of poverty while celebrating the intrinsic beauty and dignity in each person. With this goal in mind, Isabel and Zachary Green co-founded IMAGO Global Grassroots, an organization focused on giving people living in poverty the tools to build their own destiny. Isabel worked for 30 years at the World Bank, including five years as Vice-President for the South Asia region, managing a US$39 billion portfolio.
While presenting a different set of challenges, Isabel’s work with IMAGO offers tremendous potential to change the world through tackling some of the most intractable development problems we face today.
In addition to her work with IMAGO, Isabel is on the board of the Presencing Institute at MIT and a Council Member of the United Nations University. She is an economist from London School of Economics and a psychoanalyst trained at the Washington Psychoanalytic Society. Isabel teaches “Scaling Up for Development Impact” at Harvard and is a Senior Lecturer in leadership at MIT.

John Wilton
President, and CEO of Wilton Strategy Inc.

John Wilton
President, and CEO of Wilton Strategy Inc.
John runs his own consulting firm focused on marrying strategy with the financial dynamics of companies and institutions. He has worked for multinational institutions, private sector investment firms, universities and consulting companies. Most recently, he was asked by the Japanese government to serve as a member of a newly created ten person board that is tasked with allocating the funds from a new $100 billion endowment fund designed to incentivize the reform of the Japanese University system. He has served as the Vice Chancellor of Administration and Finance at both the National University of Singapore and UC Berkeley, where he was focused on reforms designed to address the financial future of the universities and to professionalize the administrative and financial functions. Before these assignments he was a Managing Director and Director of International Research at Farallon Capital Management, a multi-strategy investment management firm and an Advisor for Hellman and Friedman, a private equity firm. Prior to this he worked at the World Bank, including serving as Vice President for Strategy, Finance and Risk Management.
John also worked as a Senior Adviser for higher education at McKinsey & Company. He currently serves on the boards of several companies and organizations including Enfoca, a private investment firm in Peru, Leblon a public/private investment company in Brazil, and Auna an integrated health care company which operations in Mexico, Colombia and Peru.

Kerry Yang
MIT Faculty

Kerry is an Assistant Professor in Finance at MIT Sloan, with a research focus on credit and banking systems. She has experience working in investment banking at Morgan Stanley in New York, consulting at McKinsey & Company in China, and investing with Acumen Fund in West Africa. She received her PhD at Columbia University, and her MBA/MPA-ID at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Kerry has worked with IMAGO in various capacities since 2014, in both Ahmadabad and Washington DC. Kerry is from South Kingstown, Rhode Island, and studied Economics at Harvard College.

Krystin Jones
Head of Marketing Innovation and Insights, Amazon

Krystin Jones
Head of Marketing Innovation and Insights, Amazon
Krys Jones is the Head of Marketing Innovation and Insights for the Consumables business at Amazon, where she leads and architects inclusive and inspiring customer engagement strategies across Beauty, Grocery, Health, Personal Care, Wellness, Baby Care, and Pet Care. Krys has nearly 20 years of brand management and marketing strategy experience from General Mills and Procter & Gamble, where she helped develop national brands like Betty Crocker, Olay, and COVERGIRL. She’s a bold, mission-driven, entrepreneurial leader passionate about scaling capabilities and amplifying social impact. Krys has a B.S.B.A from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a M.B.A. from Duke University.

Michael Walton
Director For Economic Development, Research, And Strategy

Michael Walton
Director For Economic Development, Research, And Strategy
Michael has worked as a development economist for four decades and has lived in four continents. For the past 15 years this has increasingly involved working with the next generation, through teaching and field work. Throughout this time, his central interest, and role, has been to serve as a bridge between the worlds of ideas and practice. Michael has undertaken empirical research, involving primary data collection, using both quantitative and qualitative techniques; and he likes to engage with other disciplines, especially politics and anthropology. For the past six years, he has been working with grassroots organizations, in India, Latin America and the US, through IMAGO Global Grassroots, seeking to help them scale their innovations and practices.
In addition to his work with IMAGO, Michael is a senior lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi. He worked for 20 years at the World Bank, including as global Director for Poverty Reduction, Chief Economist for East Asia, and director of two World Development Reports. Michael is also a dancer and continue to take modern dance classes as an integral part of his life.

Rema Hanna
Chair of the International Development Area at Harvard Kennedy School.

Rema Hanna
Chair of the International Development Area at Harvard Kennedy School.
Rema Hanna is the Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies and Chair of the International Development Area at Harvard Kennedy School. She serves as the Faculty Director of Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard University’s Center for International Development and is the co-Scientific Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South East Asia Office in Indonesia. In addition, Reema is a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD).
She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a B.S. from Cornell University with Honors and Distinction. Her work has been published in leading economics journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy, among others. She is particularly interested in how governments can improve and strengthen social protection, tax collection, and environmental safety.
In addition, Rema is currently on the editorial board at the American Economic Review and previously was on the board of Review of Economics and Statistics and VoxDev and served as a co-Editor at the Journal of Human Resources.

Verónica Zavala
Chair at Imago Global Grassroots

Verónica Zavala is an executive with broad experience in management and development in Latin America. After completing her MPA at Harvard’s JFK School of Government, she started her career in the public sector in her native Peru where she focused in public sector modernization and public private partnerships (PPPs). She has held several positions with the Government of Peru, most recently as Secretary of Public Management and Minister of Transportation and Communication.
In 2008 she was appointed to the Executive Board of the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), representing Peru and Colombia. After a brief stint as Manager with the World Bank Ms. Zavala returned to the IDB where she served successively as Manager for Strategy and Development Effectiveness Manager, Manager for the Andean Countries, Country Representative in Mexico, and Regional manager for Mexico, Central America, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Currently she is on the board of directors for Engie (Peru), where she also serves as the Chairman of the Audit Committee, for Promed (Panama), and for Calisto Cobre Resources (Canada), where she chairs the Environmental Social Governance Committee. On a personal level, consistent with her interest in promoting diversity and inclusion. She enjoys sharing her expertise with younger professionals, and has substantial experience mentoring on a pro bono basis. Verónica volunteers with key gender and LGBT+ initiatives, as well as with an organization advancing Sustainable Development Goals in Peru.

Vince Jeong
Co-Founder & CEO, Sparkwise

Vince brings a multifaceted perspective that cuts across sectors and geographies. He's currently the CEO of a VC-backed edtech company. Previously, he led large-scale transformation programs for McKinsey, directed on-the-ground initiatives for an NGO in Africa, and incubated 3 startups for a venture studio in Latam. Vince holds a BSE from Princeton and an MPA/ID from Harvard.

Zachary Green
Co-Founder & Director for Leadership and Training
Zachary has 30 years of experience working with grassroots organizations, helping them unleash possibilities and reach their deeper potential. He has a PhD in Clinical and Community Psychology from Boston University, and Med in Counseling from Cleveland University. He is an executive coach, Professor of Practice, and the Associate Director of the Leadership Institute at the University of San Diego.

Isabel Guerrero
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Scaling Up, Livelihoods
Isabel Guerrero
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Scaling Up, Livelihoods
Isabel Guerrero is driven to change the world in which she lives. Throughout her career, she’s helped those with the least break out of the cycle of poverty while celebrating the intrinsic beauty and dignity in each person. With this goal in mind, Isabel and Zachary Green co-founded IMAGO Global Grassroots, an organization focused on giving people living in poverty the tools to build their own destiny. Isabel worked for 30 years at the World Bank, including five years as Vice-President for the South Asia region, managing a US$39 billion portfolio.
While presenting a different set of challenges, Isabel’s work with IMAGO offers tremendous potential to change the world through tackling some of the most intractable development problems we face today.
In addition to her work with IMAGO, Isabel is on the board of the Presencing Institute at MIT and a Council Member of the United Nations University. She is an economist from London School of Economics and a psychoanalyst trained at the Washington Psychoanalytic Society. Isabel teaches “Scaling Up for Development Impact” at Harvard and is a Senior Lecturer in leadership at MIT.

Joseph Stiglitz
Founding Imago Board Member Nobel Memorial Prize In Economics

Joseph Stiglitz
Founding Imago Board Member Nobel Memorial Prize In Economics
Joe is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (2001) and the John Bates Clark Model (1979). He is a former Chief Economics of the World Bank and a former chairman of the US president’s Council of Economic Advisors. Joe founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), and co-chairs the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. He also chairs the University of Manchester’s Brooks World Poverty Institute

Michael Walton
Director For Economic Development, Research, And Strategy

Michael Walton
Director For Economic Development, Research, And Strategy
Michael has worked as a development economist for four decades and has lived in four continents. For the past 15 years this has increasingly involved working with the next generation, through teaching and field work. Throughout this time, his central interest, and role, has been to serve as a bridge between the worlds of ideas and practice. Michael has undertaken empirical research, involving primary data collection, using both quantitative and qualitative techniques; and he likes to engage with other disciplines, especially politics and anthropology. For the past six years, he has been working with grassroots organizations, in India, Latin America and the US, through IMAGO Global Grassroots, seeking to help them scale their innovations and practices.
In addition to his work with IMAGO, Michael is a senior lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi. He worked for 20 years at the World Bank, including as global Director for Poverty Reduction, Chief Economist for East Asia, and director of two World Development Reports. Michael is also a dancer and continue to take modern dance classes as an integral part of his life.

Naoko Ishii
Founding Imago Board Member CEO, Global Environmental Facility

Naoko Ishii
Founding Imago Board Member CEO, Global Environmental Facility
Naoko is the CEO of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the world’s largest public funder of environmental projects. Previously, Dr. Ishii was a Deputy Vice Minister of Finance, responsible for Japan’s international financial and development policies.

Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
Founding Imago Board Member Former Finance Minister, Nigeria

Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
Founding Imago Board Member Former Finance Minister, Nigeria
Ngozi has served twice as Minister of Finance in Nigeria as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs. She led the restoration of macroeconomic stability, tripling growth, and initiated a strong fight against corruption. She was Time Magazine European Hero of 2004, Euromoney Magazine Global Finance Minister of the year, and Financial Times Finance Minister of the Year in 2005. Ngozi was also a Managing Director at the World Bank between 2007-2011.

Nisha Agrawal
Founding Imago Board Member, CEO Of Oxfam India

Nisha Agrawal
Founding Imago Board Member, CEO Of Oxfam India
CEO of Oxfam India, Nisha has been working on poverty and inequality for more than two decades. She has been the CEO of Oxfam India since its inception in March 2008. Prior to that she has worked with the World Bank on development issues for 18 years in East Asia (Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia) and in East Africa (Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda).

Patricia Armendariz
CEO Of Financiera Sustentable

Patricia Armendariz
CEO Of Financiera Sustentable
Patricia is the CEO of Financiera Sustentable and Board member of Banorte, one of the largest Mexican banks. She was a Director of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel and a regulator in charge of the supervision of the Mexican banks during the 1994 crisis.

Praful Patel
Urban Planner, MIT

Praful Patel
Urban Planner, MIT
Praful is an urban planner from MIT with decades of experience in the World Bank, including as a Regional Vice-President for South Asia. He is on the Board of Association for Social Advancement, now the largest micro-finance institution in Bangladesh.

Shaida Badiee
Managing Director, Open Data Watch

Shaida Badiee
Managing Director, Open Data Watch
Managing Director of Open Data Watch, Shaida brings decades of experience in managing global development statistics as the Director of the World Bank’s Development Data Group. In 2010, she led the World Bank’s Open Data Initiative, a ground-breaking program to provide full and free access to the World Bank’s extensive statistical databases.

Trinidad Zaldivar
Chief Creativity And Culture Unit At The Inter-American Development Bank

Trinidad Zaldivar
Chief Creativity And Culture Unit At The Inter-American Development Bank

Zachary Green
Co-Founder & Director for Leadership and Training
Zachary has 30 years of experience working with grassroots organizations, helping them unleash possibilities and reach their deeper potential. He has a PhD in Clinical and Community Psychology from Boston University, and Med in Counseling from Cleveland University. He is an executive coach, Professor of Practice, and the Associate Director of the Leadership Institute at the University of San Diego.

Aulikki Kuusela
Senior Advisor

Aulikki Kuusela
Senior Advisor
Aulikki Kuusela is a sought-after management consultant specialized in organizational assessment, change management and human capital management in international organizations. Her experience spans from leadership positions in line management to management consulting in bi-lateral and multi-lateral development agencies, international NGOs, national and local governments and the private sector.
Ms. Kuusela understands international development from the policy and program perspective as well as from the organizational and human capital management perspective. This unique combination of expertise enables her to help align organizational structures, cultures and people strategies to effectively support strategic business goals and priorities. Ms. Kuusela is familiar with the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, the ongoing overarching change process in the UN-system and some of the subsequent change streams now being implemented at agency level.
Ms. Kuusela’s most recent successful consulting assignments include (i) Fit-for purpose assessment of the global HR function and subsequent structural and capacity building work for a UN Agency; (ii) Co-created People Strategy for a UN Agency, including organizational development interventions; (iii) HR capacity assessment, HR policy review and aligning the corporate HR strategy to support the business strategy in a large global NGO; (iv) internal justice reviews for a multi-lateral development bank; (v) advisory services on HR strategy and organizational management for a regional development bank; (vi) Assessment of organizational culture and development of a subsequent change strategy for a UN Agency; and (vii) Workforce analysis, risk analysis and development of a comprehensive workforce strategy for a UN Agency.

Ana Revenga
Senior Advisor, Poverty And Gender

Ana Revenga
Senior Advisor, Poverty And Gender
Ana Revenga is a non-resident Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution and an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She also serves on the board of the BBVA Foundation and is the President of the Board of ISEAK, a new foundation for the study of social policies based in Bilbao, Spain. Her areas of expertise are development policy, international economics, poverty and inequality, labor economic, employment, social policy and gender.
Ana Revenga’s professional career has spanned a variety of assignments at the World Bank and at the Spanish Central Bank, as well as teaching assignments at the Centre for Economic and Financial Studies in Madrid and Brown University. She is a member of the COTEC network for innovation in policy in her home country of Spain and a Nonresident Research Associate at the German Development Institute/Deutches Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).
She has a Ph. D. and an M.A. in Economics from Harvard University, a B.A. in Economics and Mathemathics from Wellesley College, and a certificate in Human Rights from the Law Faculty at the University of Geneva.

Carlos Chango
Advisor, Indigenous Issues And Leadership

Carlos Chango
Advisor, Indigenous Issues And Leadership
Carlos has accumulated experience working outside of Ecuador in countries such as the United States, Honduras, Guatemala, and Kazakhstan. In Ecuador, he has held positions in the Dutch Cooperation, Ministry of Tourism, Ministry Coordinator of Production, Employment, and Competitiveness, National Secretariat for Planning and Development, Cooperative Ambato and Pronaca. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of iChasky consulting, a social company whose mission is to improve the world through the formation of people who, believing in themselves, achieve their dreams. He is Kichwa from Chibuleo San Francisco, an indigenous community located in the province of Tungurahua at the central Andes of Ecuador. He holds an Agricultural Engineering degree from Zamorano, is an Ontological Coach certified with the Newfield Network, and has a Masters in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard University.

Elena Serrano
Senior Advisor, Coaching And Communications

Elena Serrano
Senior Advisor, Coaching And Communications
Elena has worked on communications for public and private institutions. Recently, she worked as a director at Chile Image Foundation, creating an identity for Chile in the world. Before that, she managed communications for Latin America at the World Bank, the Central Bank of Chile, and Citibank. Elena is Development Director at Alberto Hurtado University and an Executive Coach.

Ellie Walton
Filmmaker

Ellie Walton
Filmmaker
Ellie is a film-maker and educator. She directs and produces documentaries with communities across Washington D.C. and is a recipient of the 2011 Mayor’s Art Award. Last year, she spent nine months in India as a Fulbright Scholar, working with adolescent girls in Gujarat. She holds a Masters in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh and a Masters in Screen Documentary from the University of London.

Giovanna Prennushi
Senior Advisor

Giovanna Prennushi
Senior Advisor
Giovanna Prennushi is an independent consultant with 25 years of experience as a development economist, practitioner, and lecturer. She worked at the World Bank from 1993 to 2015, focused on poverty reduction strategies, poverty analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and equity and development in various African and South Asian countries. She spent five years as Economic Advisor in the World Bank New Delhi, India office. She lectures at Cattolica University in Milan, the University of Pavia, Kenyatta University in Nairobi, and Stanford University. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy from Carnegie Mellon University and a Laurea in Discipline Economiche e Sociali from Bocconi. She is also a professional hiking guide.

Jeni Klugman
Senior Advisor, Gender

Jeni Klugman
Senior Advisor, Gender
Jeni Klugman is Managing Director at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, and a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Women in Public Policy Program at Harvard University. Previous positions include Director of Gender and Development at the World Bank, and director and lead author of three global Human Development Reports published by the UNDP. She sits on several boards and panels, including for the World Economic Forum and the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Australian National University and postgraduate degrees in both Law and Development Economics from the University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

Kesone Phimmasone
Senior Advisor

Kesone Phimmasone built her career deploying scalable digital platforms, transforming digital into a key growth engine for global brands like Estée Lauder Companies, Apple and WarnerMedia. At Estée Lauder, Kesone drove the company’s online growth from $1M to 4B+ by unifying and actioning real-time data in an enterprise data platform, led global website redesigns for Estée Lauder and M·A·C Cosmetics, and delivered hundreds of successful digital features in 63+ markets around the world. At Apple, she managed the portfolio of worldwide digital product design for Apple Retail in stores and online.