Matt Sloan
Associate Director, Surveys and Information Services; Senior Survey Researcher

He was the survey director for the Impact Evaluation of the Burkina Faso Girl’s Education Threshold Country Program, which included more than 9,000 interviews with rural households and schools to evaluate an innovative set of interventions designed to improve girls’ education. For that project he also assisted in analysis, reporting, and the presentation of final results, which employed a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impacts of the program. He is currently directing a long term impact evaluation of the same project.

He directs a multi-method impact evaluation for the Rwanda Threshold Country Program, which aims to strengthen the rule of law, civil society, civic participation, media, and the inspectorate services of the national police. He is also overseeing the design of a monitoring, evaluation, and learning framework and implementation of a multi-method impact evaluation of the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program. This program will provide holistic support including scholarships, mentoring, transition support, and networking to academically promising but economically disadvantaged students in sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the developing world.

Sloan regularly presents to professional associations, including recent presentations to the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, American Statistical Association, Comparative and International Educational Society, and Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. He speaks French and holds an M.S. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin—Madison and a B.A. in international relations from Pomona College.