Evaluasi is a diversity-prioritized partnership of PhD-trained social scientists who work on corporate social responsibility, impact investing and philanthropy, conducting operations in more than a dozen countries.
Team Members
Dr. Mike Findley has extensive experience designing, testing, and scaling innovative social interventions globally. His work has led to public policy change at leading international organizations and in country governments across the world. Outside of Evaluasi, Dr. Findley is Professor of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Mai Nguyen is a data scientist who specializes in social science-based software tools, meta-analysis, and making data legible and user-friendly. She has extensive experience in data journalism, tech, and academia, having worked at FiveThirtyEight, Emory University, and tech startup Giant Oak. Outside of Evaluasi, she enjoys boxing, baking and board gaming.
Dr. Salma Mousa studies social cohesion after conflict. Her work has been featured in several publications including Science, PBS, the Economist and Quartz. She will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale in Fall of 2021. In her free time she enjoys the beach, baking, and following any soccer game with Mo Salah in it.
Dr. Saad Gulzar specializes in experimental methods in the field of developmental political economy. He is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Princeton University and works closely with politicians, political parties, bureaucrats, and government agencies in Pakistan, India, and Nepal.
Dr. Sabrina Karim specializes in research on conflict and peace processes, particularly state building in the aftermath of civil war. Specifically, she studies international involvement in security assistance to post-conflict states, gender reforms in peacekeeping and domestic security sectors, and the relationship between gender and violence. She is the Hardis Assistant Professor in the department of Government at Cornell University.
Dr. Yuhki Tajima is an expert on experimental methods and studies political violence, the political economy of development, and politically-affiliated gangs. He is also an Associate Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and his work has been supported by The World Bank, The Asian Development Bank, Innovations for Poverty Action, The Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, and The Pacific Rim Research Program.
Dr. Dan Nielson has worked for three decades on social responsibility around the world in poverty relief, environmental stewardship, and the rule of law. He specializes in randomized evaluation and has assessed scores of programs in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. His findings have guided policy choices at international organizations, leading private foundations, and governments in Europe and North America. Aside from Evaluasi, Dr. Nielson works as Professor of Government at University of Texas at Austin and enjoys cycling, running, skiing, and nerdy audiobooks.
Dr. Adam Harris studies ethnic, race, development, and African politics with a focus on political participation using experimental and survey methods. He is currently an Associate Professor in Development Politics at University College London.
Dr. Scott Findley is an expert on behavioral analysis, behavioral finance, financial literacy and education, and retirement saving. He is trained in computational modeling, econometrics, cost-benefit analysis, and experimental methods, with nearly two decades of experience managing research in the United States and Europe. Outside of Evaluasi, Dr. Findley is professor of Economics and Finance at Utah State University. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Public Finance Review. In his free time, he enjoys mountain biking, skiing, and fly-fishing in the mountains of Utah and Idaho.
Dr. Renard Sexton is an expert on efficient, scalable evaluation with more than a decade of experience evaluating interventions and policies across the world. He is trained in econometrics, randomized and natural experiments, statistical programming and field-based methods, and has applied these techniques in more than two dozen countries. Outside of his work with Evaluasi, Dr. Sexton serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University.
Dr. Umberto Mignozzetti is an expert in formal and experimental methods. He has conducted extensive research on how institutional designs affect collective action problems. Outside of Evaluasi he is an Assistant Professor at University of California San Diego.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). My research is in applied political economy, focusing on conflict processes, identity, and migration in the context of Latin America. Native of Medellín, I earned my BA and MA in Philosophy from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and a BA in Economics from Universidad Externado de Colombia. I received a PhD in Political Science from New York University.
Michael Cowan is a evaluation and learning expert with more than a decade of experience managing complex research projects around the world in the areas of democracy, rights, and governance development, countering violent extremism, rule of law, and conflict mitigation. He is currently earning his doctorate of political science at the University of Maryland where he specializes in research methodologies and civil conflict.
Cedric is Evaluasi's Program Assistant - and an MSc candidate in Political Science at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-SP), São Paulo, Brazil. He is passionate about elections, political parties, and representative institutions in the developing world. He is a Bob Dylan die-hard fan and can talk about the Lord of the Rings whole day long.
The name of the company, Evaluasi, was selected from the Indonesian word for evaluation in the hope that corporate social responsibility will quickly transform away from the simple administration of well-intentioned activities over to a new norm of corporate social responsibility with impact that has been rigorously evaluated.
Our Expertise
Social Responsibility Activities:
Evaluasi associates have extensive experience conducting impact analyses and evaluations on a broad array of programmatic activities including microfinancing, civic action and accountability, investment incentives and corporate risk pricing.
Other activities include mobile phone crowdsourcing, combatting money laundering, international law, combatting terrorism financing, mobile phone empowerment, solid waste management, government fiscal capacity, foreign aid, natural resource use and post-conflict reconstruction.
Social Responsibility Policy Partners:
Our Evaluasi founders have worked with several organizations across the globe from the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Gates Foundation.
Other policy partners include the Asia Foundation (Myanmar), UK Department for International Development (DfID), African Development Bank, UN Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UN High Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity, US Institute of Peace, Council on Foreign Relations, International Aid Transparency Initiative, Quality Assurance Mechanism (QuAM; Uganda), NGO Forum (Uganda), DENIVA (Uganda), BRAC (Tanzania), the Government of Tanzania’s Social Action Fund, National Science Foundation, Swiss Network for International Studies, US Department of Defense and the Hewlett Foundation.
Publications and Coverage
Speaking Engagements:
Evaluasi associates have spoken at several institutions including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, Chicago, MIT, U. Penn, UC Berkeley and Columbia.
Other speaking engagements include Duke, Northwestern, UC San Diego, UC Davis, USC, North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Dartmouth, Uppsala, Washington U.-St. Louis, Vanderbilt, NYU, Wisconsin, College of William and Mary, Emory, Notre Dame, Denver, Colorado-Boulder, UT Dallas, University College London, Pittsburgh, Penn State, USU Huntsman School of Business, Texas A&M, North Texas, Maryland, UNC Charlotte, Utah, Brigham Young University, Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Villanova, and Ludwig-Maximilians (Munich), Berlin, Essex (UK), Heidelberg, Mannheim, Geneva, Zurich, Bern, Stockholm, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (São Paulo, Brazil), Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (Mexico), and Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).
Publications:
Evaluasi founders have published in numerous top publications such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Cambridge University Press, Science Advances, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and UN High Level Panel on International Financial Accountability.
Other scholarly publications: American Journal of Political Science, World Development, Minnesota Law Review, American Political Science Review, International Organization, World Politics, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Review of International Organizations, and the Annual Review of Political Science.
Other policy publications: World Bank, USAID Colombia, USAID Armenia, UN Peacebuilding Fund, UNICEF, BuildPeace, AidData, Center for Equitable Growth, Evidence in Governance and Politics, PeaceNexus, the Gates Foundation, Transparency and Integrity, Political Violence at a Glance, and the Monkey Cage (Washington Post).
Media Coverage:
Work by Evaluasi founders has been covered in the Economist, New York Times, 60 Minutes, NPR Planet Money, FiveThirtyEight and the Washington Post.
Other media converage include: UK Channel 4, TED, Global Witness, Wall Street Journal, Bank Policy Institute, Axios, ReliefWeb, The Guardian, Global Financial Integrity, CATO, Foreign Affairs, Tax Justice Network, US Senate Testimony, US House Testimony and Floor Debate, FACT Coalition, Berkeley Institute for Transparency in the Social Sciences, Legal Theory Blog, Replication Network, and the Small Wars Journal.