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Alysson Akiko A. Oakley, PhD (she/her/hers)

Vice President
Pact, United States

Alysson Akiko Oakley, PhD, is Vice President of Learning Evidence, and Impact at Pact, an international development organization. Dr. Oakley is an experienced practitioner in the fields of international development, governance and democracy assistance, and specializes in improving program strategy and demonstrating impact. She serves as a board member of the International and Cross-Cultural Evaluation (ICCE) group of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), and formerly served as Chair of the board for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance (DRG). She also serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University where she teaches courses on program design, evaluation, and complex systems interventions. She was Associate Editor for the Cambridge University Press Southeast Asia “Elements” series, a principal Asia-Pacific analyst for Freedom House’s flagship publication Freedom in the World, Senior Advisor at the International Republican Institute, and Program Director at the U.S.-Indonesia Society. More recently, she was co-editor of a special issue of the journal New Directions for Evaluation titled Innovations in Complexity Responsiveness: Advancements in Democracy, Human Rights and Governance Program Evaluation. She has consulted for governmental, think tank and private sector organizations on topics ranging from political risk to methodology. Dr. Oakley earned a PhD from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University.

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