International Center: Staff

Center Directors

photo of Anu Rangarajan Anu Rangarajan
Director, Center for International Policy Research and Evaluation

Anu Rangarajan is a vice president at Mathematica and is based in our Princeton, New Jersey, office. Rangarajan has more than 25 years of experience in conducting program evaluations in a wide range of areas. She is the project director for the Ananya evaluation, which is assessing the effectiveness of maternal and child health interventions in Bihar, India. She is a co-director for the evaluation of the MasterCard Foundation’s Scholar’s Program, which aims to bring social transformation in Africa through scholarships supplemented with support services to academically promising but economically disadvantaged youth. She has led evaluations related to agriculture interventions, water sanitation and hygiene, and infrastructure. Before conducting evaluations in the development context, Rangarajan played key roles on several large-scale evaluations of programs in the United States in education, labor market and welfare policy, nutrition, disability, and other areas.

Rangarajan has designed and overseen evaluations in experimental and nonexperimental contexts, process studies, cost-benefit analyses, and large-scale surveys, and has provided technical assistance on evaluation topics. She has worked on creating results frameworks to develop appropriate questions for measurement, learning, and evaluation and identifying appropriate designs to address the questions. She serves as senior advisor or quality assurance reviewer on many of Mathematica’s development projects. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, served on advisory boards dealing with program evaluation issues, and cotaught a course on program evaluation at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University for several years. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University.

Nancy Murray
Deputy Director, Center for International Policy Research and Evaluation

Nancy Murray is a senior researcher and area leader for Mathematica’s international work and is based in our Washington, D.C., office.

Murray has more than 20 years of experience in international development program evaluation, education, adolescent and maternal and child health, and nutrition and the family. She is project director of the LAC Reads project, a USAID-funded set of impact evaluations of early reading initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. She also directs the impact evaluation component of the School Dropout Pilot Prevention (SDPP) project, an impact evaluation of school dropout prevention programs in four Asian countries, in collaboration with Creative Associates. Her past work includes key roles in designing and leading evaluations of international health and education programs in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa.

Murray, who joined Mathematica in 2007, was previously the deputy director for the Center for Health Solutions at Futures Group International, where she was responsible for all projects with evaluation and monitoring components. She has published in Studies in Family Planning, Social Biology, International Family Planning Perspectives, Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, and Maternal and Child Nutrition. She is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Portuguese and French. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the Johns Hopkins University and an M.P.H. and M.A. in Latin American Studies, both from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Other CIPRE Staff and Affiliates

Mathematica has more than 35 staff members who have experience conducting evaluations in developing countries. Among them are researchers, statisticians, and survey specialists who combine strong technical, analytic, language fluency, and management skills with extensive experience conducting evaluations in a variety of developing country contexts. In addition, our staff have a deep substantive understanding of the policy areas that are the focus of international evaluations, including education and training, health and nutrition, water and sanitation, democracy and governance, agriculture and rural development, and investments in infrastructure. Our staff offer extensive expertise in designing and implementing rigorous impact studies and in providing technical assistance that engages and empowers key stakeholders in the evaluation process. Our staff bring extensive expertise in developing appropriate survey instruments that are adapted to the project and country context; they also provide extensive oversight of local data collection efforts to ensure that high quality data are collected. Mathematica’s economists, statisticians, and quantitative social scientists are known for their expertise and judgment in selecting and using a wide variety of experimental and nonexperimental techniques and adapting them to the planned rollout of program and policy interventions.

We work to identify the appropriate team of experts that meets the needs of any specific evaluation.