Morgan Holmes is the Agency Learning and Evidence Team Lead at USAID. She previously worked as Science, Technology, Innovation and Partnership Officer 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 portfolio, working with academia to incorporate rigorous evidence into USAID programming and partnering academics and USAID Missions to design and implement more than 25 RCT Impact Evaluations, in addition to spearheading other learning products. Morgan also works with the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group on select studies.
Before specializing in 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 is the Agency Learning and Evidence Team Lead at USAID. She previously worked as Science, Technology, Innovation and Partnership Officer 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 portfolio, working with academia to incorporate rigorous evidence into USAID programming and partnering academics and USAID Missions to design and implement more than 25 RCT Impact Evaluations, in addition to spearheading other learning products. Morgan also works with the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group on select studies. Before…