Staff & Contact

Staff:

Global

Nathanael Goldberg, Senior Policy Director

Nathanael Goldberg, Policy Director, leads IPA’s efforts to direct resources to proven development interventions. Nathanael also manages IPA’s Ultra Poor Graduation initiative, a set of seven evaluations of programs designed to enable the poorest households to develop sustainable livelihoods and move out of extreme poverty. Nathanael has a B.A. in economics from Wesleyan University and an MPA from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.

Arielle Salomon, Project Associate

Arielle Salomon joined Innovations for Poverty Action in July 2010 as a Project Associate in the Washington DC office. She works on IPA's policy initiative and research support for the the Ultra Poor Graduation Programs.  Arielle has a B.A in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania where she also studied French and economics.

Pakistan

Lalchand Luhana, Project Coordinator

Lalchand Luhana holds MSc in anthropology and development from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), together with MA in anthropology from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He joined IPA in 2008 as a Project Coordinator for the Ultra Poor Graduation program in Pakistan. At IPA, Lalchand is managing the implementation of a randomized impact evaluation and coordinating with the local survey company and implementing partners in Pakistan.

Honduras

Maria Dolores Sanchez Liste, Project Associate

Dolores joined IPA in May 2010 as the Project Associate of Targeting the Ultra-Poor in Honduras. Dolores has more than 6 years of experience in the management of non-profit organizations in Argentina, where she worked in formal education projects for students from low income families. She also worked in DARA (Development Assistance Research Associates), where she has  participated in assessment  missions to Myanmar and Georgia for the Humanitarian Response Index 2009. She holds a Human Resources Degree from Argentina, and a Specialisation in Inequality and Development by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain.

Peru

Adam Kemmis Betty, Project Coordinator

Adam Kemmis Betty joined IPA Peru in 2010 to oversee the Ultra Poor Graduation evaluation in Cusco. In addition to this project, he is working on a study of microfinance borrowers’ sensitivity to interest rates and an evaluation of a microfinance financial literacy program with ICTs. Prior to joining IPA, Adam worked for online microfinance funder Kiva, coordinating with partner institutions across Bolivia. He has also worked as a strategy and risk management consultant for banks and other financial institutions in Europe and West Africa, and as a researcher for the United Nations Development Program in Bolivia. He holds a BA from Cambridge University and an MA in Latin American studies from the Institute for the Study of the Americas, London.

Ethiopia and Yemen

Matt Lowes, Project Associate

Matthew Lowes monitors and manages the evaluation of the Targeting the Ultra Poor program in southern Yemem. Matthew has a BA in economics from Middlebury College.

Ghana

Elizabeth Naah, Implementation Coordinator

Elizabeth Naah helps develop and manage the implementation of the IPA Ghana’s Graduation from Ultra Poverty (GUP), training and supervising teams of field workers, managing program budgets, and providing technical support to field workers. Elizabeth has a B. Ed in home economics from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana and an M.A in human resource development (HRD) from the same university.

Antumwini Solomon Domayen, Implementation Manager

Solomon Domayen is the Graduation from Ultra Poverty (GUP) pilot project Implementation Manager responsible for the Microfinance Graduation Pilot: overseeing day-to-day work and providing technical support and guidance to implementing Field Teams so as to ensure quality and consistency of programming.Solomon has six years of community development experience, directly facilitating capacity building and sustainable livelihood development of rural poor. Currently pursuing a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree, Solomon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture, majoring in Extension and Rural Sociology from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi - Ghana.

Hannah Trachtman, Project Associate

Hannah Trachtman joined IPA in June 2010 as a Project Associate in Peru.  While in Peru, she managed a project on the impact of various group and individual liability structures on microlending outcomes.  In November 2011 she transferred to Ghana to work on the Graduation from Ultra Poverty (GUP) project, and specifically, the employment component of the GUP program.  She holds a BA in economics from Harvard University.  

Michael Polansky, Project Associate

Contact:

Innovations for Poverty Action is responsible for leading the evaluations for these seven pilots, and implementation is being coordinated globally by CGAP.

For more information on evaluation, please contact: Nathanael Goldberg, Director, ngoldberg@poverty-action.org or  Arielle Salomon asalomon@poverty-action.org

For more information on implementation, please visit CGAP's Graduation website or contact Aude de Montesquiou, CGAP, ademontesquiou@worldbank.org