Donna joined EDI Global in January 2023 as the MEL Director, with the vision of bringing together high-quality data, on which EDI Global has built its reputation, with cutting-edge MEL thinking and methodologies. Donna has over 15 years of experience in MEL and impact evaluation, using a wide range of methods (quantitative, qualitative, experiments, quasi-experiments, neuroscience, complexity-informed evaluation, and developmental evaluation). Prior to joining EDI Global, she was a Senior Consultant within the Climate Change and Natural Resources Practice at Oxford Policy Management, UK. She has a strong academic background and also currently holds a position as the Director of Studies in Political Economy at the University of Oxford and is a research affiliate at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford. She specialises in climate change, and natural resources, health, and education, and has also worked on corruption and governance, and migration. Donna holds a PhD and MPhil in Economics (Behavioural Economics) from the University of Cambridge, UK.
