Luke Heinkel is an evaluation and learning expert with over 15 years’ experience conducting research in the United States, Africa, Europe and Asia, and works as a senior program officer on adaptive learning projects in R4D’s Learning Lab. In the case of adaptive learning, his team’s goal is to create “a theory of change” with the implementing partner, perform research to understand the partner’s working conditions and context, and develop two or more strategies for implementation while at the same time collecting data for review and improvement. At R4D, Mr. Heinkel’s team co-developed a literacy program with a low-fee private school network in West Africa, and working with community mobilizers in India devised a method of web-based “e-libraries” for parents’ mobile phones that can help instill early reading practices in young children. A former teacher in Africa through the Peace Corps, Mr. Heinkel also spent considerable time in schools in Sierra Leone working with student leaders to develop a reading club to assist struggling students through direct assessment and one-to-one peer support. Mr. Heinkel has also written several evaluation reports and policy papers. Before joining R4D, he was a research analyst at Mathematica Policy Research where he worked on large program evaluations both internationally and at home for clients such as the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the MasterCard Foundation. Mr. Heinkel is a returned Peace Corps volunteer (Namibia 2005-07), where he taught English and math at a rural junior secondary school and founded a scholarship program for Namibian students. Mr. Heinkel holds a master’s degree in urban planning from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and a BS in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Cammie Lee is an expert on markets-based approaches to international development with more than 10 years of experience in the public and private sectors and across multiple industries. At Results for Development (R4D), Ms. Lee is a program director leading R4D’s market shaping practice area and the country director in Tanzania. She leads all of R4D’s market shaping work across the health, education and nutrition sectors, including overseeing R4D’s efforts to reduce childhood mortality due to pneumonia, the world’s leading infectious disease killer of children under five. This includes managing the procurement of 10 million pneumonia treatments for children in Ethiopia and Tanzania, working with local change agents to shape the market in both countries and other high-burden geographies, as well as leveraging monitoring, evaluation and learning approaches to ensure a sustainable access to, and rational use of lifesaving medicines. Ms. Lee has also developed market assessments, cost-effectiveness analyses and feasibility studies to identify gaps and craft purchasing and financing strategies to improve affordability, availability, quality, awareness and appropriate design of essential commodities and services. Before joining R4D, Ms. Lee worked in strategy and management consulting at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where she conducted needs assessments, market sizing and financial analysis and developed business cases and market entry strategies for pharmaceutical, industrial goods and financial services companies. She is a recipient of the BCG Impact Award, given to one or two case teams annually for the most significant assistance to clients. Previously, Ms. Lee worked at the U.N. Secretary-General’s Strategic Planning Unit, helping to develop his global health strategy, climate change policy and strengthening the U.N.’s collaboration with the creative community. Ms. Lee holds an MBA and MA in sociology from Stanford University, an MPA from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a BA in international relations also from Stanford. She speaks English, German and Mandarin.

Praneetha Vissapragada is a senior program associate at Results for Development (R4D), working on the health analytics team focusing on health financing in nutrition, and the accountability & citizen engagement practice. Ms. Vissapragada has a range of experience in domestic and international health in policy and research. She has worked most recently with the WHO/PAHO where she was working on non-communicable disease and alcohol and substance use policy. Prior to that, she designed and implemented a program evaluation study on a flagship nutrition program with Millennium Villages Project in Uganda. Her resume also includes proficiency with multiple spoken languages and multiple statistical languages. She received her master’s of public health from Columbia University and her bachelor’s of science in biology and health: science, society and policy from Brandeis University.

Erin Fletcher is an Economist at Results for Development (R4D). Prior to joining R4D, she was an independent researcher and consultant on issues of gender, education, and violence in low- and middle-income countries. She worked with international and local NGOs and multilateral agencies to maximize impact in programming, analysis, and policy design on issues related to economic development; gender equality; female labor force participation; and reductions in poverty, discrimination, violence against children, and gender-based violence. She assisted organizations in identifying key questions for research, consolidating existing knowledge, methodological innovation, and understanding programming and policy impact. Ms. Fletcher completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Evidence for Policy Design, a research group at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. With Rohini Pande and a team of economists from Duke, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Columbia, she worked with the Asian Development Bank to identify trends in and challenges to women’s labor force participation in Asia. Before Harvard, she spent three years as a visiting assistant professor of economics at two liberal arts colleges in Pennsylvania, Lafayette College and Gettysburg College. She completed her Ph.D. in 2011 under Professor Terra McKinnish at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She also did her undergraduate work at Duke University in Economics and Spanish/Latin American Studies, wrote a senior thesis on Venezuelan exchange controls with Professor Ed Tower, spent a semester at la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, and worked as a journalist in Venezuela.