Anthony Mveyange is the co-founder of the Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa (NIERA) and a newly appointed Africa Global Public Investment Lead for Development Initiatives. He is currently transitioning out as the Executive Director of the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR), a pan-African organization operating in over 26 countries, advancing research and training excellence in Public Policy and Governance. Anthony is a passionate Tanzanian development economist whose research and policy interests include (but are not limited to) inequality, poverty, health and education, agriculture, natural resources, international trade, trade policy, economic growth, and development in Africa. Anthony has experience designing and evaluating projects and programs, policy advisory, and designing and overseeing thematic research-related initiatives in Africa.
Before joining PASGR, Anthony was a Regional Research and Learning Director at TradeMark Africa (TMA), where he directed a multi-million dollars research and learning portfolio in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Malawi, Somaliland and Eastern DRC. As an independent consultant, Anthony is currently helping TMA develop an innovative index that measures women’s empowerment in trade in Eastern Africa. He also led a six-countries (i.e., Tanzania, Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and South Sudan) research initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on East Africa Economies. He consulted for Porticus Africa as an independent Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) advisor on Early Childhood Development and Child protection projects in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Before joining TMEA and PASGR, Anthony worked as a research economist in the World Bank Research Development Group in Washington, DC. He is also a fellow of the East Africa Social Science Translation (EASST) Collaborative at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA). In 2020, the World Manufacturing Foundation nominated Anthony as among 12 global experts to produce a White Paper on restoring Global Value Chains in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Anthony is also a contributor to Africa in Focus at Brookings Institute in the United States, a member of the INCLUDE Knowledge Platform, which brings together Dutch and African scholars, and served as a member of the Advisory Board of the African Cities Research Consortium at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. He also serves as a Board Member of the Foundation for Civil Society in Tanzania and an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Public Service Management at the Tanzania Public Service College.
Previously, Anthony consulted for the World Bank Group, Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund of the World Bank, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), and AMREF Health Africa and advised the governments of Kenya and Tanzania.
Anthony Mveyange is the co-founder of the Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa (NIERA) and a newly appointed Africa Global Public Investment Lead for Development Initiatives. He is currently transitioning out as the Executive Director of the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR), a pan-African organization operating in over 26 countries, advancing research and training excellence in Public Policy and Governance. Anthony is a passionate Tanzanian development economist whose research and policy interests include (but are not limited to) inequality, poverty, health and education, agriculture, natural resources, international trade, trade policy, economic growth, and development in Africa. Anthony has experience…