Morgan Holmes served as USAID’s Agency Learning and Evidence Team Lead where she championed, encouraged, and pioneered news ways for the Agency to generate, use, and share high quality evidence. She previously worked in USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures (DIV), an Innovation Fund within USAID whose grants test and scale rigorously-evidenced development solutions. Before DIV, Morgan led USAID’s Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance research and learning portfolio, working with academia to incorporate rigorous evidence into USAID programming and partnering academics and USAID Missions to design and implement nearly three dozen RCT Impact Evaluations, in addition to spearheading other learning products. Morgan also works with the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group on select studies and is a co-founder and frequent collaborator with the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie).
Before specializing in research and evaluation, Morgan worked for NDI and IRI implementing political party, civil society, and media strengthening programs. She has managed programs in Afghanistan, the Czech Republic, the DRC, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Slovakia, and Venezuela. She holds a BSc from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.
Morgan Holmes served as USAID's Agency Learning and Evidence Team Lead where she championed, encouraged, and pioneered news ways for the Agency to generate, use, and share high quality evidence. She previously worked in USAID's Development Innovation Ventures (DIV), an Innovation Fund within USAID whose grants test and scale rigorously-evidenced development solutions. Before DIV, Morgan led USAID's Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance research and learning portfolio, working with academia to incorporate rigorous evidence into USAID programming and partnering academics and USAID Missions to design and implement nearly three dozen RCT Impact Evaluations, in addition to spearheading other learning products. Morgan…