Jaclyn is the Director of Research at EGAP, where she manages the "Metaketa Initiative," a grantmaking model for coordinated clusters of studies that identify critical areas in governance and politics where generalizable knowledge can have a large impact. Prior to this role, she was the Managing Director of the Center on the Politics of Development...
Ingrid Lee is Managing Director, overseeing strategic planning and implementation for EGAP. She has managed a variety of global development projects addressing health, environment, and gender equality issues at the UN Development Programme, as well as public private partnership evaluation projects for the World Bank. Most recently, she managed public private partnerships with journalism outlets...
Matt is the Senior Methods Manager at EGAP, where he oversees organizational programming related to standards and methods, including the research design registry, methods guides, standards debates, and policy dissemination materials. He also coordinates EGAP's Principal Investigator workshops in the Global South, and supports the day-to-day running of the organization. Prior to joining...
Max Méndez-Beck is the Membership & Meetings Manager for EGAP, where he helps organize yearly conferences that bring together EGAP members and policymakers. In the past he has worked for J-PAL at their regional offices in Latin America, leading efforts to identify and build strategic partnerships with governments, NGOs, foundations, and international organizations in order to promote the scale-up and replication of effective social programs. Most recently, he oversaw a scoping...
Ayuko is the Administrative Assistant at EGAP, where she supports the general administration of EGAP. Most recently, Ayuko led operations at a nonprofit providing college scholarships in Sierra Leone. In the past, she conducted social science research in the fields of gender equality and civil society in West Africa. Ayuko holds master’s degrees in International Education and Political Science from Columbia University and Northwestern University respectively and a bachelor’s in International Politics from Georgetown University.
Tara Slough is EGAP’s Predoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. She is currently a PhD candidate at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the political economy of institutions and development and political methodology. She is currently completing a dissertation on the distributive politics of bureaucracy with a focus on low- and middle-income democracies. Tara is a recipient of a NSF Graduate...