MICHAEL J. MIDLING, Ph.D.

Academic Background

Ph.D., International Development Education / Administration and Policy Analysis, Stanford University, 1996M.U.R.P., Urban and Regional Planning Policy, University of Hawaii, 1987M.A., East Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, 1986B.A., Social Science (African Studies), University of California, Berkeley, 1981

Languages

English (native) French (fluent) Spanish (fluent) Mandarin Chinese (proficient)Portuguese (proficient)Japanese (proficient)Indonesian (fair)

Security Clearance

Secret

Country Experience

Asia: China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, and ThailandAfrica: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Morocco, Niger,

Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, UgandaMiddle East: IraqLatin America and Caribbean: Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua

Area Studies and Academic Distinctions

National Academy of Education Spencer Fellow (1995). American Council of Learned Societies, Foreign Language and Area Scholar, 1985; 1989; 1992Stanford Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies, Taiwan University (1992).Stanford University Center on Conflict and Negotiation, Fellow, 1990-1991David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellow, 1990-1991Inter-University Consortium for Southeast Language Studies, Indonesia (1989).Japan, Ministry of Education, Visiting Scholar, 1986-1988; Tokyo University (1987-1988);Hitotsubashi University (1986-1987).Stanford Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Tokyo (1985). France: University of Paris, Sorbonne (1977-78).Ghana: University of Ghana, Legon (1974-75)Spain: Center for Inter-Cultural Studies, Blanes, (1970-71).Stanford University Center for Peace Studies, Fellow, 1991-1992University of California, President’s Special Undergraduate Scholar, 1977-1978

Recent Professional Positions

June 2015 Research Group Leader for science, technology, innovation, and partnerships.United States Agency for International Development, U.S. Global Development Lab, Office of Evaluation and Impact Assessment

1996 – 2015 Social Scientist, Social Policy Research Associates, Oakland, CA2006 – 2008 Senior Program Officer, International Program for the Elimination of Child

Labor, International Labor Organization, Geneva2002 – 2004 Director, China Labor Law Rule of Law Project, Beijing

Worldwide Strategies for U.S. Dept. of Labor, International Labor Affairs Bureau

Recent Overseas Consultancies

2015 Workforce Development Expert. The QED Group / Iraq.2014 - 2015 Senior Evaluator, USAID/Africa Bureau YouthMap Project,

Uganda, Pragma Corporation2014 Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Adivsor, USAID Somalia

Program Support Services (SPSS). International Business and Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI)

2014 Lead Evaluator, Performance Evaluation of 2006-2011 USAID Assistance to Northern Uganda. International Business and Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI)

2013 – 2014 Lead Evaluator, Final Evaluation, USAID Municipal Competitiveness Project,

El Salvador, International Business and Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI)

2013 Lead Evaluator, Mid-Term Evaluation, Education For Success Project, Nicaragua, JBS International/Aguirre Division

2012 – 2013 Lead Evaluator, Mid-Term Evaluation, Supporting Educational Transformation, Jamaica, Social Impact, Inc.

2012 Workforce Development Specialist, Mid-Term Evaluation, Enhancing Skills of Salvadorans in the New Century, El Salvador, IBTCI

2007 Lead Evaluator, IDEJEN Out-of-School Youth Project, Haiti, Educational Development Center (EDC)

2007 Senior Technical Cooperation Advisor, Beijing. Special Action Program on Forced Labor, International Labor Organization (ILO)

2006 Lead Evaluator, Mid-Term Evaluation, Trafficking of girls and young women in China. ILO International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO/IPEC)

2005 – 2006 Lead Evaluator, Decennial review of USAID Education Portfolios in Francophone West Africa (Guinea, Benin), Juarez and Associates, DevTech, Inc.

2005 Senior Technical Cooperation Advisor, Child Labor Education Initiative, Columbia, Juarez and Associates.

Key Qualifications

Dr. Midling is a highly experienced evaluation specialist with an interest and focus on science and technology partnerships. As Social Policy Research Associates’ (SPR) principal investigator for a recent large-scale multi-year USDOL-funded Evaluation of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Initiative. This program, which had as an important component encouraging greater women’s participation in STEM fields was intended to enhance education and workforce training strategies, activities, and resources in STEM fields in five regions throughout the U.S. Dr. Midling was also the co-Principal Investigator of evaluation and technical assistance project for Washington State, designed to develop a new system for consolidating financial aid for workforce and STEM-related technical training within the state’s higher education system. The report’s findings, which were translated into authorizing legislation, demonstrated that there were clear pathways for streamlining the state’s financial aid system to better leverage financial aid from sources such as the U.S. Department of Education and other funders such as the U.S. Department of Labor to strengthen workforce development and STEM education. More recently in East Africa, Dr. Midling evaluated another post-higher project that sought to place recent college graduates, a majority of whom were women, in STEM and related fields.

Dr. Midling has been deeply involved in a variety of capacity-building efforts throughout his career as both and evaluator and project implementer. As Senior Program Officer for Evaluation at the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC), Dr. Midling developed a series of guidelines and other training materials for internal and external use, which were designed to enhance the capacity programs to evaluate the impact and sustainability of interventions related to education of children rescued or withdrawn from child labor and designed and conducted a number of evaluations and best practice workshops on the topic in multiple locations in Asia and Africa. As director of the USDOL/ILAB-funded US-China Labor Law Cooperation project, Dr. Midling worked with the Chinese government and NGOs to strengthen and improve legal aid services to the most vulnerable groups, especially girls and young women and migrant workers.

Dr. Midling has also managed and led complex and large-scale global, regional and national evaluations; managed external consultants in the conduct of surveys, mid-term and final evaluations. He has also led field teams under harsh conditions including in conflict zones, and contributed to building capacity in research in education and vulnerability for US and UN organizations. As director of the China Labor Law Project, he directed the work of a consortium of major US-based international non-governmental organizations, including the National Committee on US-China Relations and the Asia Foundation. He has directed

numerous research projects and has a high degree of expertise in the presentation of research results.

He has extensive experience in post-conflict settings. One of his recent East Africa evaluations involved leading a team of 50 researchers, survey specialists, and video documentarians in a cross-sectoral mixed-methods retrospective Performance Evaluation of USAID’s $750 million assistance portfolio to Northern Uganda during the post-conflict period of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) war. Key recommendations of this evaluation included the need to design conflict sensitive programming with emphasis on psychosocial well-being and economic empowerment, particularly for the most affected populations of youth and women, and this evaluation was highlighted by USAID at the 2014 American Evaluation Association’s annual meeting as an example of good practices in conducting complex evaluations.

Dr. Midling was also worked extensively in other areas of Africa, Asia, and the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region. In the LAC, Dr. Midling has worked on education, youth workforce development, and economic development issues in El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Guatemala, and Colombia. In El Salvador and Nicaragua, Dr. Midling evaluated three USAID programs supported through the Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI) on issues related to citizen security and peace-building initiatives in the context of low productivity and crime and insecurity, in which students and youth are particularly vulnerable to organized crime. In Nicaragua, he evaluated an integrated program for at-risk children and youth in targeted municipalities in the multi-ethnic (indigenous, African-American, creole) Autonomous Southern Atlantic Region that would provide opportunities for formal and non-formal education, life skills, and workforce competencies. In Jamaica, Dr. Midling led the evaluation of USAID’s Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI)-funded Jamaica Education Transformation Project, which supports the Government of Jamaica’s education transformation efforts to improve the early education sector, assessing the project’s contribution to improving teacher training in instruction and promoting greater engagement, accountability, and transparency in the educational system.

In Africa, Dr. Midling led two reviews of USAID’s ten-year portfolios in the education sector. In one of those reviews (Guinea), Dr. Midling and his team uncovered widespread corruption in the education sector, in which teachers lacking even basic education were able to illicitly obtain positions within the public education sector. As a result of his report, in 2006, USAID/Guinea identified corruption as the main source of fragility in the country and developed its education programming to address corruption within the education system.

Dr. Midling has a Ph.D. from Stanford University in International Educational Administration and Policy Analysis. He has a current secret security clearance through USAID, is a native speaker of English, and is fluent in Spanish and French. Dr. Midling also speaks and reads other Asian and European languages including basic proficiency in Indonesian.

He has recently accepted a position at the U.S. Global Development Lab Office of Evaluation and Impact Assessment (Lab/EIA) to assist the agency in the conduct of rigorous, evidence-

based analysis to guide investment decisions and assess the Lab’s theory of change - that science, technology, innovation, and partnership approaches are delivering impact more quickly, cost-effectively, sustainably, and are reaching the most vulnerable populations across the planet.

Curriculum Vitae

Job duties for the last 15 years are as follows:

• Providing intellectual leadership and focus to initiate dialogue, generating policy recommendations, and initiating research activities.

• Having mastery of the technical knowledge required to perform highly technical and specialized tasks and supervise others in the performance of their duties.

• Guiding discussions and negotiations with national ministries, and US states and local areas for the collection of administrative data for research and evaluation.

• Bringing together key decision makers and senior officials. • Motivating and guiding team members and partner agencies toward goal accomplishment;

ensuring that staff members are appropriately selected, utilized, and appraised through formal and informal processes including performance reviews; acting as a source of information and mentorship; and assisting staff in the identification of training needs.

• Actively engaging in the development of cooperative working relationships in all aspects of the job; encouraging and facilitating cooperation within the firm and between with organizations and agencies at the federal, state, and local levels; manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a positive and constructive manner.

• Taking steps to achieve quality end products by ensuring that effective controls and continuous improvement processes are in place and are followed and by participating in the development of short and long-range plans.

• Drawing on over 30 years of professional experience and soft-skills that are required of the job, including having the ability to make correct and appropriate decisions and logic-based problem solving; applying creative and innovative insights to individual and organizational problems, and drawing correct inferences from sometimes limited available data.

Professional Experience:

2015 (As of 6/15): Analyst, Science Technology Innovation Partnerships, U.S. Global Development Lab Office of Evaluation and Impact Assessment (USAID/Lab/EIA). Assists the agency in leading rigorous, evidence-based analysis to guide investment decisions and assess theories of change in international development, particularly that science, technology, innovation, and partnerships between public agencies, academic research institutions, and the private sector can deliver impact more quickly, cost-effectively, sustainably, and can therefore reaching the most vulnerable populations.

The Lab partners with other government donors such as the Government of Sweden; academic instutions including the University of California at Berkeley, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michigan State University, Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Texas A&M University, College of William and Mary, and Uganda’s Makerere University; Private corporations including Cargill, Cisco, Citi, Coca-Cola, DuPont, GlaxoSmithKline, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Nike, Syngenta, Unilever, and Walmart. Civil society organizations (CSO) such as Care, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Catholic Relief Services, Global Impact Investing Network, Plan, Save the Children, Skoll Foundation, World Vision, National Academy of Sciences, and the Smithsonian Institution.

2015 Workforce Development Expert. QED Group/Iraq. Provided technical leadership for final evaluation of the Foras Opportunities Project, a $47 million dollar project seeking to leverage technology and training to support the development of labor markets that meet employer needs; to strengthen the private sector; and provide trainings and opportunities including distance learning (“e-learning”) and special initiatives for vulnerable populations, particularly for persons that have been internally displaced as a result of the most recent conflicts.

2014 - 2015 Senior Evaluator, Pragma Corporation. YouthMap Project, Uganda. Led evaluation of the YouthMap Uganda USAID-funded YouthMap initiative. The program is underpinned by the development hypothesis that if educated youth are provided a comprehensive internship opportunity that fosters skills development, mentorship and peer support, then their chances of gainful employment will significantly increase. The four major program components are: Orientation and skills training; Internship placements; Professional development support services, including mentoring, job placement services, and participation in an alumni network; Facilitation of youth participation in USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA)-related activities.

2014, Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, International Business and Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), USAID Somalia Program Support Services (SPSS). Provided technical assistance at the startup of this monitoring and verification program for all USAID-funded activities in Somalia. Because of a security situation that prevents a large USG presence in Somalia, monitoring and verification is conducted through third-party monitors (TPM). Duties included revising of monitoring and verification tools; developing a system for the field data collection in real time; developing, in coordination with USAID’s implementing partners (IP), a universe of site visits for FY15; and developing and implementing a sampling plan.

2014, Senior Evaluator and Team Leader, International Business and Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), USAID Peace-Building in Northern Uganda, Uganda - Retrospective cross-sectoral performance evaluation of USAID activities from 2005/06 – 2011/12 designed to: assess the contribution of USAID/Uganda assistance to promoting stability, peace, and recovery in Northern Uganda; evaluate the scale, scope, relevance, and effectiveness of services, benefits and collective outcomes of USAID-funded projects in Northern Uganda; identify the extent to which interventions promoted stabilization and to identify practices in conflict and post-conflict settings that can inform ongoing and future USAID/Uganda and other donor programs.

2013 – 2014, Senior Evaluator and Team Leader, IBTCI, Municipal Competitiveness, Citizen Security (CARSI) Municipal Competitiveness Project, El Salvador- Final evaluation of a project designed to improve the competitiveness of Salvadoran municipalities through capacity building and increased dialogue on issues related to citizen security and peace-building initiatives such as those sponsored through the USAID- and Clinton Foundation Business Council for Peace (BPEACE) initiatives and crime and violence prevention initiatives sponsored through U.S. Government-wide initiatives such as Domestic Finance for Development (DF4D) and the Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI). These and other initiatives promoted as part of USAID’s work in decentralization and municipal strengthening involve extensive public-private sector dialogue initiatives in support of economic development through municipal alliances with the private sector and crime prevention efforts which is a partnership

among the governments of the United States and Central American nations to improve citizen security and rule of law in the region.

2013, Senior Evaluator and Team Leader, JBS International/Aguirre Division, Education and Workforce Development; At-Risk Youth, Education For Success Project, Nicaragua – Mid-term evaluation of a project designed to to develop and implement an integrated program for at-risk children and youth in targeted municipalities in the multi-ethnic (indigenous, African-American, creole) Autonomous Southern Atlantic Region that would provide opportunities for formal and non-formal education, life skills, and workforce competencies. This project is the main mechanism for supporting the Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI).

2011–2013, Senior Analyst, Social Policy Research Associates (SPR), U.S. Department of Labor, Evaluation of the Implementation of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), USA - Evaluation funded by the U.S. Department of Labor to study the implementation of WIA, which represents a massive overhaul of the nation’s workforce development system, with an emphasis on streamlining employment and training services, fostering linkages and coordination across categorically-funded programs, and promoting customer choice. The evaluation also examines the effectiveness of partnership formation between job training agencies, the Employment Service, school-to-work systems, and other programs. The study consists of two major components, including intensive (6-9 day) site visits to WIA systems and partner agencies across the nation and the analysis of data gathered from an implementation tracking system covering all states throughout the country.

2013, Senior Technical Cooperation Advisor, Juarez and Associates (J&A), USAID Lifelong Learning Project, Guatemala - Assisted J & A in the development of a successful proposal to improve education quality and access for underserved populations, i.e., indigenous children and out-of-school youth. In addition to the previous work on improving reading outcomes within the formal educational system, this project seeks to enable youth in the Western Highlands (WH) region, where youth are at risk of engaging in illicit activities and experience vulnerability in different levels, and is therefore the geographic areas where many Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI) activities are concentrated. CARSI-funded activities in this sector are designed to provide at-risk youth with opportunities for greater economic self-reliance and higher levels of civic engagement and educational achievement with the aim of increasing stability and economic growth in the Western Hemisphere.

2012–2013, Senior Evaluator and Team Leader, Education, Social Impact, Supporting Educational Transformation in Jamaica/USAID, Jamaica - With support from the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), USAID’s Jamaica Education Transformation Project supports the Government of Jamaica’s education transformation efforts to increase access to economic opportunities for Jamaican children, through an improvement in the delivery system for educational services. This ongoing mid-term evaluation (October 2012- February 2013) assesses the project’s contribution to improving early grade (1-3) reading instruction and reading delivery systems as well as promoting greater engagement, accountability, and transparency in the educational system as a whole.

2012, Consultant, Workforce Development Specialist, IBTCI, Enhancing Skills of Salvadorans in the New Century, El Salvador - This project is rooted in the goals of the Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI) and a joint country action plan that supports innovation for workforce development aimed at responding to two major development

challenges: low productivity in the tradables sector and crime and insecurity. Within this context, IBTCI conducted mid-term evaluation of a project designed to improve the functioning of El Salvador’s labor market to make it capable of matching supply of skilled workers with private sector demand for labor by enhancing occupational skills standards and competency certifications; developing a labor market information system and consumer-based reporting system; and developing capacity for career counseling and placement within the country’s labor bureaus.

2011–2012, Senior Analyst, SPR, U.S. Department of Justice, The Evaluation of the Department of Justice’s Second Chance Act Adult Demonstration, USA - Three-year random-assignment impact evaluation of this reentry program on recidivism, employment, and other outcomes of formerly incarcerated individuals. As part of the study, seven grantees throughout the U.S. were selected to participate, and, within these areas, applicants for program services are being randomly assigned to receive SCA services or not. Each member of the research sample will also be tracked for one full year after random assignment to measure the short-term impact of the program. The study includes an impact analysis, a process study, and survey of study participants. The study also includes an implementation study, as well as training and monitoring of local sites to ensure compliance with requirements of the experiment.

2010–2012, Principal Investigator, SPR, Evaluation of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Initiative, USA- Multi-year study funded by the U.S. Department of Labor – Employment Training Administration to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of a pilot program seeking to expand and enhance workforce education and training strategies, activities, and resources in STEM fields across five grantee regions throughout the U.S. Evaluation activities include site visit and administrative data analysis.

2011, Senior Analyst, SPR, U.S. Department of Labor, Evaluation of Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), USA - Impact evaluation funded by the U.S. Department of Labor to examine SCSEP, which provides paid work-based training in community service positions to nearly 50,000 older workers through local programs administered by 74 state and national grantees. Evaluation activities include analysis of qualitative data drawn from site visits and descriptive quantitative analysis of participant and customer satisfaction data.

2010, Principal Investigator, SPR, An Analysis of GED Attainment at YouthBuild AmeriCorps Programs, USA - This evaluation used administrative data; teacher surveys; student surveys; and interviews with administrators and teachers from selected sites on themes of relationship building; emotional and physical safety; involvement with the program particularly related to their sense of belonging to something larger than themselves or to their immediate friends or family; and youth perceptions of the usefulness of the program in helping them to build skills—particularly academic skills, and the roles of these factors on attainment on the General Educational Development (GED) test among AmeriCorps grantees. YouthBuild participants come from some of America’s most disadvantaged communities, and tend to have myriad developmental problems and bad experiences within the school system. Many are homeless, parents themselves, and deal with difficult family and personal problems related to parenting their own children, substance abuse, gang affiliation, legal problems including incarceration, and limited employment opportunities. Youth entering the program are often far behind in terms of their education level and credit attainment. Moreover, when they enter the

program, many suffer from low levels of self-esteem and confidence in their ability to learn. Passing the GED therefore represents a major milestone for these youth.

2007–2008, Senior Program Officer for Evaluation, International Labor Organization, Program on the Elimination of Child Labor, Switzerland - Developed a series of guidelines and other training materials for internal and external use, which are designed to enhance the capacity programs to evaluate the impact and sustainability of interventions. Managed complex global and regional evaluations including global, regional, and country-level evaluations and multi-funder impact evaluations including a number of large-scale evaluations in Africa and Asia. Designed and conducted evaluation and best practice workshops in multiple locations around the world.

2007, Technical Cooperation Advisor, Special Action Program on Forced Labor, China – Serve as a member of the Executive Committee of this California-based $50 million/annum nonprofit aid agency responding in most emergencies. Assisted the agency mount programs in Haiti, Kosovo, Niger, Azerbaijan, Darfur and Somalia. Ran Iraqi staff and Board trainings for RI in Jordan and Los Angeles.

2007, Senior Evaluator and Team Leader, Educational Development Center, IDEJEN, Out-of-School Youth Project, Haiti - Conducted an evaluation for the initiative for the development of out-of-school youth; conducted a desk review, prepared evaluation instrument, conducted field visits, and prepared evaluation report; made a number of high priority recommendations, each of which was successfully implemented during later phases.

2006, Consultant, International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor, China Anti-Trafficking Project, China- Conducted the mid-term evaluation for ILO-All China Women’s Federation project to combat the trafficking of girls and young women in China. Three specific project strategies were: mobilization of key stakeholders and the development of a knowledge base on trafficking and exploitative labor practices; creation of models of direct assistance for migrant girls and young women; and development of national and sub-national policy frameworks and implementation capacity for the prevention of trafficking and labor exploitation.

2006, Co-Principal Investigator, SPR, Consolidating Workforce and Technical Training Financial Aid within the Washington State Community College System - This research focused on administering large-scale survey and data analysis to determine the feasibility of consolidating and streamlining workforce related financial aid within the community/technical college system. The report’s findings, which were translated into authorizing legislation, demonstrated that there were clear pathways for streamlining the state’s financial aid system to better leverage financial aid from sources such as the U.S. Department of Education and other funders such as the U.S. Department of Labor to strengthen workforce development and STEM education.

2005–2006, Senior Evaluator and Team Leader, Juarez and Associates, DevTech Systems, Decennial Review of selected USAID West African Education Portfolios, West Africa – Led evaluation on USAID support to the education sector in Guinea and Benin. These evaluations identified the results, lessons learned, and best practices of USAID’s education activities in Guinea and Benin since their inception. The evaluations made recommendations on improving approaches and activities for greater impacts particularly in the areas of educational policy

development, teacher training, curriculum development, girls’ education, and student achievement and learning.

2004–2005, Senior Technical Cooperation Advisor, Juarez and Associates, Colombian Child Labor Education Initiative, Colombia - Over a period of one year, in collaboration with Management Systems International (MSI) and staff and key stakeholders from implementing agencies, developed and refined the logical framework and performance management results framework for USDOL’s child labor education initiative in Colombia

2004, Co-Principal Investigator, SPR, Evaluation of Washington State’s School-to-Work (STW) Program, USA - Funded by Washington State’s Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, this project was designed to estimate impacts on exiting cohorts of high school students. The evaluation focuses on whether students record more favorable outcomes after exiting from schools with well-developed STW programs. The project assessed outcomes such as employment and earnings, postsecondary school attendance, and student and employer assessments of students’ preparedness for work. A specially administered school survey was used to elicit the necessary information from schools for this purpose.

2000-2005, Senior Evaluator, Ethnographic Evaluation, SPR, U.S. Department of Labor, Youth Opportunity Grant Initiative Evaluation, USA - Had principal responsibility for all ethnographic data collection within three regions. Youth Opportunity programs were funded by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) for $1.375 billion to provide services—including education, employment, support, and leadership development—to youths from age 14 through 21 in high-poverty U.S. urban, rural, and Native American communities

2002-2004, Director/Chief of Party, US-China Labor Law Cooperation, U.S. Department of Labor, Rule of Law, China - Managed the $5 million USDOL International Labor Affairs Bureau cooperative agreement project in collaboration with subcontracted agencies, the Asia Foundation and the National Committee for US-China Relations; oversaw all liaisons with Chinese government and implementation activities with partnering organizations. Established and directed Beijing representative office, developed and monitored indicators and performance measures; and implemented a series of education, training and technical assistance activities designed to: 1) strengthen the Chinese government’s capacity to develop laws and regulations to implement internationally recognized workers rights; 2) promote greater awareness of labor law among Chinese workers and employers; 3) strengthen capacity in arbitration and labor relations; and 4) improve legal aid services to the most vulnerable groups, especially girls and young women and migrant workers.

1997–1998, Education Officer, USAID, Mali - Oversaw all aspects of basic education and youth development programs, including environmental education, girls’ education, the development of the community schools initiative, teacher training, and curriculum development. Developed a highly collaborative relation with government, donor agencies, and NGOs, many of whom had previously worked in relative isolation. For example, regular monthly roundtables of technical and financial partner organizations were started. Teamed with partner organizations, such as UNDP, to co-sponsor the first all-party conference on national education that allowed the nation’s decennial development committee to initiate a dialogue with NGOs on issues such as the development of community-supported schools that would eventually become part of the regional and national network of schools that are now jointly supported by various levels of government

1996–1997, Chief of Party, GreenCom Environmental Education Project, Mali - Worked with the Ministry of Education and other partners, such as the European Community in developing a communication and social marketing approach to effectively generate positive change in youth behavior, applying those disciplines to environmental challenges in Sahelian Africa, which was undergoing progressive desertification. This represented a new approach to environmental and natural resource management that put people at the center of all interventions. In addition to working with the education sector, one of the key good practices that was identified as part of my work was establishing a network of urban and rural radio providers with whom the project developed modules for environmental education and communication in eight national languages.

2014 Visiting Professor and Fellow, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, College of Humanities and Social Sciences / School of Social Sciences. Assisted by colleagues from Makerere University, led a team of Acholi-speaking graduate students in a three-month qualitative field research project on US government efforts to assist in the rebuilding of Northern Uganda, whose population suffered severe economic and psychosocial effects of forced encampment of 1.8 million internally displaced persons (IDP) at the peak of the twenty-year Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency in Northern Uganda.

1995-1996 Adjunct Professor, Department of International Relations and Public Policy, Golden Gate University - Taught masters level courses on sustainable development, quantitative methods for public policy, and qualitative research and writing.

1993-1994 Visiting Researcher, Environmental Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - Taught masters and doctoral courses on environmental policy and planning and sustainable development theory

1990-91 Graduate Fellow, Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN). Awarded a David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellowship and grant for original research in Indonesia, leading to the publication of work in environmental conservation comparing aspects of Green Revolution and Traditional Agriculture in Bali, Indonesia.

1986-1988, Visiting Researcher, Economics Department, Tokyo University; Hitotsubashi University, Japan - Conducted research on Japanese-Southeast Asia political and economic relations with a primary focus on Japanese investment in the region and the impacts on Japanese and Southeast Asian workers.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

International Business and Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI) for USAID; Ex-Post Performance Evaluation of USAID Assistance To Northern Uganda: 2006-2011, (2014) with Paul Bukuluki, Eric Awich Ochen, and Robert Okeny.

International Business and Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI) for USAID; AID-519-O-14-00001. “Final Evaluation of the USAID Municipal Competitiveness Project In El Salvador” (2014) with Francisco Molina, Roy Sandoval, and Silvia López-Tull.

Aguirre Division of JBS for USAID. “Mid-Term Evaluation of the Education For Success Project on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua” (2013), with Rafael Ayala Alvarado and Mario Quintana Flores.

International Business and Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI) and the Aguirre Division of JBS for USAID under REQ-519-12-000021. International Performance Evaluation of the “Improving Access to Employment Program in El Salvador” (2012) with Sergio Cambronero and Francisco Molina.

Social Impact, Inc., and Management Systems International (MSI). “Midterm Performance Evaluation of the USAID/Jamaica Basic Education Project” (2013) with Deon Edward-Kerr, Janet Orr and Winsome Francis.

The Evaluation of the Implementation of the Trade and Globalization Adjustment Assistance Act (2011), with Ronald D’Amico, Christian Geckeler, Deanna Khemani, and Deborah Kogan. Social Policy Research Associates. Social Policy Research Associates for U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration. DOL Contract No. AK-13690000430

Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) for YouthBuild USA (2009), contract 09-A58. “An Analysis of GED Attainment at YouthBuild AmeriCorps Programs” with Jilliane Leufgen.

International Labor Office, International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO/IPEC). Internal guidance manual on effective project monitoring and evaluation (2008).

International Labor Office, Special Action Program on Forced Labor. Technical Assistance Guide for Chinese Enterprises on Prevention of Forced Labor (2008). In collaboration with the Chinese Entrepreneurs Confederation.

Education Development Center (EDC). “Haitian Out-of-School Youth Livelihood Initiative (IDEJEN): Report on the Pilot Phase” (2007) for USAID, with Carole Sassine.

International Labor Organization (ILO) and the United Kingdom Department of International Development (DfID). Evaluation of the Project for Preventing Trafficking in Girls and Young Women for Labor Exploitation within China (2007). Project No. CPR/04/01P/UKM

SPR and Washington State University for Washington Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, Project No. 3415. “Consolidating Workforce Financial Aid” with Jeffrey Salzman and David Pavelchek

DevTech Systems, Inc. Evaluation of USAID-Guinea Basic Education Program Portfolio/Évaluation du Programme en Éducation de Base de l’USAID/Guinée (2005). USAID Contract No. EDH-I-00-03-00002-00

DevTech Systems, Inc. Assessment of the USAID Assistance Program to the Reform of the Benin Primary Education System (2005). Évaluation du Programme d’Assistance de l’USAID à la Réforme de l’Enseignement Primaire au Bénin; USAID Contract No. EDH-I-00-03-00002-00.

Social Policy Research Associates, and Brandeis University Center for Human Resources. School-to-Work Out-of-School Youth (2002), with Ronald D’Amico, Mary Kimball.

Social Policy Research Associates for Washington State, Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board. Washington State’s School-to-Work Program, (1999) with Ronald D’Amico and Andrew Wiegand.

Social Policy Research Associates. Creating Workforce Development Systems that Work (1997) with Deborah Kogan, Katherine Dickinson, Ruth Fedrau, and Kristin Wolff.

Routledge Press. “Chemistry in the Community: A Science Education Curriculum Reform. Case study in Changing the Subject: Innovations in Science, Mathematics and Technology Education. Study conducted for Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Paul Black and J. Myron Atkin, eds., (1996).

Environmental Education in China: The Case of Secondary Schools in Sichuan Province. Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University (1996).

The Green Revolution and Traditional Agriculture in Bali, Stanford CA: Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation (1991), Working Paper #20.