Alex is an evaluation and development specialist with 15 years of research experience in a range of development sectors, including entrepreneurship and livelihoods, youth programming, food security and nutrition, political participation and access to justice, citizen security and violent extremism, and export promotion and value-chain development. He provides technical and managerial oversight to large, high-profile research projects for clients and donors. He is a native French speaker.

Currently, Alex serves as principal investigator for the performance evaluation of the U.S. Department of State’s International Law Enforcement Academies, featuring a web survey of over 40,000 alumni and interviews in nearly two dozen countries. He also leads a study about identity in Ukraine and supports the U.S. Department of Education’s Pacific West Comprehensive Center through a mixed-methods needs assessment of career pathways in Palau and an analysis of teacher pay scales in Micronesia.

In recent years, Alex served as technical lead of a formative research study on child trafficking in Côte d’Ivoire for the U.S. Department of State and as co-principal investigator and project director for the impact evaluation of USAID’s First-Time Parents Activity in Tanzania, focused on maternal and child health outcomes and reproductive health. He also served as director of research for USAID’s Research Technical Assistance Center (RTAC), where he managed the technical, operational, and business aspects of dozens of task orders involving U.S. and international academic researchers. Alex led research on security and stabilization. He was team leader of the Citizen Security Assessment in Haiti under USAID’s LACLEARN mechanism, and designed and oversaw a large-scale perception survey on violent extremism in Côte d’Ivoire for USAID’s Resilience for Peace initiative.

Prior to joining NORC, Alex was a research associate at Optimal Solutions Group, where he conducted research and evaluations for the Small Business Administration (SBA), USAID, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He evaluated USAID projects in Armenia and Palestine, as well as the SBA’s Regional Innovation Clusters Initiative and other programs seeking to support U.S. small business growth and innovation and to develop regional supply chains.

Prior to this, Alex was a modeling analyst for Standard & Poor’s, enabling institutional investors to stress-test a range of asset-backed securities. He also interned for World Hope International and traveled to Haiti shortly after the 2010 earthquake to evaluate a reproductive health project and develop proposals to address urgent post-earthquake needs.