Dr. Winston J. Allen is the Agency Evaluation Officer, located in USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL). He has over 30 years of experience in international development program evaluation, project planning and design, and social science research.
Prior to this role, he was Senior Evaluation Specialist, during which he managed a $455 million evaluation services contract, and provided technical leadership in designing performance and impact evaluations, towards strengthening evaluation practice, and evaluation capacity across the Agency. His evaluation and research experience cut across several sectors including economic growth, health, transportation, labor, education, agriculture, business, and natural resource management. Over the years, he has served as evaluation team lead for a broad range of evaluations supported by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), private foundations, and U.S. Federal Government Agencies.
He has extensive experience conducting program evaluations in countries in Africa, Asia, Latin American, the Caribbean, Europe and Eurasia, and the Middle East. Prior to joining USAID, he was the Director for Monitoring and Evaluation on a USAID funded project, Africa’s Health in 2010, where he led the effort to strengthen the evaluation and program monitoring capacity of African regional health organizations. He holds a master’s and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, with a focus on international development, from the University of Pennsylvania.