Metrics from the Ground Up February 27-28, 2018 Participant and Speaker Directory Alban Alphonse E Ahoure Prof., CAPEC Prof. Alban Alphonse E. AHOURE is the Director of the Cellule d’Analyse de Politiques Economiques du CIRES (CAPEC: www.capec-ci.org). He works on subjects related to human capital, social capital, labor market outcomes, governance and poverty alleviation, firms’ performance. Luke Aldridge Monitoring & Evaluation Team Leader, LifeNet International Luke leads research, monitoring and evaluation at LifeNet International. He has worked in global health programming and research across South Asia and East Africa, and holds an MSc in global mental health from King's College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Vava Angwenyi Vava Specialty Coffee Kenya Vava holds a Master’s degree in International Finance and Management from University of Groningen as well as Certificate in Global Asset Management from Warrington College of Business, University of Florida and a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics & Actuarial Science from University of Western Ontario- CANADA. Vava’s vision is to challenge the status quo and promote positive social disruption within the Coffee industry. This vision comes from an inborn Kenyan passion for coffee and a drive to promote the sustainable production of coffee within Kenya’s and the wider East African region by tracing the production of high quality coffee beans to the independent smallholder coffee farmer, who works day in and day out, against major obstacles and with meager resources to produce some of the world’s best tasting coffees, often without an understanding or appreciation of the final fruits of their labor. www.vavacoffeeinc.com Daniel Asare-Kyei, PhD Ag. Chief Executive Officer, Esoko Daniel led a team of experts on USAID funded Trade and Investment program where he worked on commodity value chains focusing on bottom of the pyramid actors. In his role as a GIS Program Manager with TechnoServe and ACDI/VOCA, he initiated the development of the first Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for Ghana’s agricultural sector. He conducted a pioneering research in post-harvest management of perishables using advanced remote sensing techniques. These models have become the backbone of a new mobile app, called CHEETAH (http://cheetah.ujuizi.com/). He founded Eucharia Farms and Adinkra Frontiers and has been a speaker and ardent promoter of ICT for agriculture and rural development. He is now the Chief Executive Officer for Esoko’s mobile data collection company, Insyt.co (www.insyt.co). Daniel is also a fellow of the United Nations University-EHS and has a doctorate degree in Agricultural Economics and has double master’s degree in Geo-Information Science from the University of Twente, The Netherlands and a first-class Bachelor’s in Agricultural Economics from Ghana’s KNUST. Metrics from the Ground Up February 27-28, 2018 Participant and Speaker Directory Matt Austin Senior Investment Officer, Private Capital Group, U.S. Agency for International Development Matt Austin is a Senior Investment Officer for the Office of Private Capital and Microenterprise (PCM). In this role, Matt advises USAID leadership and staff on leveraging private investment in support of USAID and host government development priorities and programs. Theophile Azomahou Professor, United Nations University, CERDI I am development economist with broad disciplinary interests at the frontier of evidence-based policy, quantitative empirics and theory. My research veer around development issues (programme evaluation and field experiments, public finances, fiscal evasion and informality, taxation, gender equality, women empowerment, sustainable human development, intergenerational mobility, demography and health, poverty analysis) and applied econometrics. Lewis Bett Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Lewis Bett is a Junior Associate in Grants, Monitoring and Programme Quality at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). GAIN is an International Non-Governmental Organization which works to advance nutrition outcomes by improving the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially those most vulnerable to malnutrition. He graduated from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology (JKUAT), with bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics and Rural Development in 2016. Prior to his current role, Lewis worked as Project administrator and as Programme Assistant with the same organization. Peter Blair Director, Vera Solutions I work as Vera Solutions' Director, covering our Africa-based programs. We work with a wide range of organizations in health, education, environment, WASH, and peacebuilding, building data systems to help them understand their impact better. Laura Budzyna Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager, MIT D-Lab Laura Budzyna is the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager at MIT D-Lab, where she designs systems to track and evaluate the impact of D-Lab’s academic, research, and innovation practice programs. She led the MIT Practical Impact Alliance working group on impact measurement and is the author of “The Metrics Café” framework and toolkit. Metrics from the Ground Up February 27-28, 2018 Participant and Speaker Directory Claudio Cali Economist, European Investment Bank As part of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Results Measurement (ReM) Team, I deliver EIB impact strategy across its Impact Financing Envelope (IFE) operations in African Caribbean and Pacific countries, supporting the selection of impact investments, engaging with EIB portfolio companies and tracking, monitoring and reporting on results of the IFE. Prior to joining the ReM+ team I have been working as associate counsellor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), providing inputs on transition impact related results management work and setting and implementing the results framework on different levels of EBRD activities. Previously I worked as country and financial sector analyst at the EIB, responsible for financial sector assessment in a number of countries in West, Central and Eastern Africa. I began my career working as research assistant (main research interests in Fund Management Industry and Agent-based Models) at the finance department of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Matt Capelli Founder, Laheriyam | Data Sharma Matt is a technology consultant who is passionate about aligning project resources, execution, and goals with the right technology so that teams spend less time fighting with their systems and more time making data-driven decisions. Martina Castro CDC Group Martina is responsible for evaluating and managing the development impact of investments within the Impact Fund of the CDC Group. Prior to joining CDC, Martina worked for an economic consultancy advising governments, development finance institutions and donors on private sector development and financial inclusion initiatives. Martina also worked as Strategy and Finance Officer for a social enterprise in Haiti, and before that as a philanthropy and impact investment advisor in Switzerland. Martina holds a Master in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Elizabeth Chacko Partnerships Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development Liz Chacko is a Partnerships Advisor at USAID. She focuses on entrepreneurship / impact investing partnerships and provides advisory services within USAID on private sector engagement. Prior to joining USAID, Liz worked at the World Bank for nearly five years on financial sector development in Africa preparing projects to increase access to finance for small and medium enterprises and managing a regional capacity building project. Previously, she was a LGT Impact Fellow providing strategy and operational support to a start-up clean water venture in India and has worked with the Grassroots Business Fund. Liz began her career in the financial services industry working at Drake Management, a global fixed income investment manager, on the client relationship team and at JP Morgan Chase & Co in a variety of business units. Liz earned her MBA and Master of Science in Foreign Service at Georgetown University and her Bachelor of Science at NYU's Stern School of Business. Metrics from the Ground Up February 27-28, 2018 Participant and Speaker Directory Leo Chandler Results Manager/Data Analyst, DFID Impact Programme At the Impact Programme, I am the results manager, economist and data analyst helping to oversee the impact reporting for the different components of the work we conduct I support the CDC in their social impact reporting of their fund of funds called the Impact Fund which currently has 7 funds and 34 investee companies, as well as supporting their Technical Assistance Facility. I also work in managing some of the market building work we do, helping to lead on the grant funded projects which are focused on developing impact measurement and management practices. The market building projects I have been involved with include: the Bridges Impact Management Project, Acumen's Lean Data Service, the Poverty Probability Index (PPI), ANDE's learning labs, and the GIIN's navigating impact work. Prior to working at the DFID Impact Programme, I undertook a Masters at the London School of Economics, specialising in development, economics and social policy. Elaine Chang Director, Market Development, TaroWorks Elaine Chang is the Director for Market Development for TaroWorks. She has over 10 years