For International Women's Month, IEG highlights the diverse contributions of women in evaluation. This second piece spotlights Diana Stanescu, methods advisor to evaluation teams, managing editor of IEG's Methods Papers Series, and a key contributor to IEG's groundbreaking work in evaluation methodology.
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Diana Stanescu joined IEG's Methods Team two years ago with a mission: to apply her experience as a computational social scientist in academia to enrich IEG's evaluation methods advisory function and contribute to informed decision-making at the World Bank.
She took that mission and ran with it. Hear her tell the tale of her journey — her role as a methods advisor to evaluation teams and as managing editor of IEG's Methods Papers Series. It's a compelling story of what it means to be part of IEG's Methods Team and the groundbreaking work they are doing — from training evaluators with the skills and tools they need to raise the bar on evaluation quality, to their most recent strategy for the responsible use of AI.
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