Svetlana Negroustoueva is a PMP Certified professional with over 15 years of experience designing and conducting evaluations, assessments, monitoring and research activities, and quantitative and qualitative data collection and analyses. She has worked on M&E activities at the intersection of sustainable landscapes, energy, health, food security, gender and social inclusion, for projects across a range of funders and implementing entities. 

Svetlana has served at African Development Bank, World Bank, the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and Climate Investment Funds (CIF) in positions concerned with demand-driven and independent evaluations. She was an independent evaluator herself, for a variety of clients during consultancy assignments. Svetlana’s passion and expertise is in the domain of gender and evaluation; she is the co-chair of EvalGender+, the global partnership to promote the demand, supply and use of Equity Focused and Gender Responsive Evaluations.  

Svetlana is a Russian and US national, and holds a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin in the US, and Advanced BA in Public Administration and Social Research from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU).