Director of Impact Evaluation
Causal Design, United States
Christy Lazicky is an economist and the Director of Impact Evaluation at Causal Design. She has over 12 years of experience designing and implement inompact evaluations specifically in Africa and Asia, with a particular focus in the humanitarian and livelihoods sectors. She currently oversees Causal Design’s impact evaluation portfolio, in which she leads the design and execution of several impact evaluations. She is the principal investigator on several Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and USAID impact evaluations, including of the ongoing Syrian humanitarian response as well as a large-scale agricultural diversification Feed the Future in Malawi. She is also currently serving as the Senior Impact Evaluation Advisor on BHA’s Humanitarian Assistance Evidence Cycle (HAEC) award aimed to increase the use of impact evaluations in the humanitarian sector. Prior to joining Causal Design, Christy oversaw the technical design and execution of a portfolio of evaluations at IDinsight including designing and implementing a large-scale evaluation for a Development Impact Bond on poverty alleviation, an evaluation of a woman’s social enterprise accelerator in India, and an impact evaluation of higher education program for refugee students in South Africa. She has also managed several impact evaluations through previous roles at London Business School in Uganda, Rwanda, and Ghana and with MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) in South Africa. She has extensive experience working with vulnerable populations in complex environments. Christy holds a MPA in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from Dartmouth College.
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All that glitters is not gold - Humanitarian impact evaluation in Northeast Syria
Thursday, October 12, 2023
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET