Carlos holds vast experience in mixed methods design and complexity-aware approaches to monitoring, evaluation, learning, and adaptation. He also serves as presenter and instructor to support NORC’s International Programs Department (INPRO) capacity building initiatives  including learning agendas, pause and reflect sessions, mixed methods for data collection and analysis, evaluation utilization, and other evaluation and applied research frameworks.

During his most recent period at NORC, he has led evaluation and research projects across Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America in close coordination with local experts, implementation partners, and data collection partners to conduct large-scale surveys, qualitative fieldwork, and mixed methods analysis embedded into systems thinking. His proficiency in French and Spanish allows him to increase INPRO’s sensitivity to local contexts in his projects and facilitate teamwork. Carlos has served as Project Director to clients within the U.S. Federal Government, the International Development Bank, other governments and nonprofit organizations to lead and collaborate in designing studies and theories of change in the fields of education, labor rights, and sexual violence. He has led multidisciplinary teams to garner and address stakeholders’ learning needs, allocate adequate resources to projects tasks, foster staff members’ learning, meet contractual deadlines, and provide actionable results and recommendations.

Upon his return to NORC, Carlos brought over 15 years of experience in program evaluation and policy analysis. He has worked with a diverse set of research and evaluation teams and sectors, including non-profit organizations, think tanks, academia, private consulting, and the United Nations. His past fieldwork experience includes projects in Canada, Mexico, and the USA to evaluate higher education, early child development, conservation, and business development initiatives. He co-published several peer-reviewed articles on immigration studies and research on evaluation and continues collaborating with scholars in the field of migrant incorporation and immigration policy in the Western Hemisphere.