Katherine Nolan
AidData Research Scientist
Biography
Katherine Nolan is a Research Scientist in AidData's Research and Evaluation Unit, where she conducts impact evaluations on health, gender, and agriculture focused development projects. Katherine currently works on a retrospective evaluation utilizing geospatial matching techniques and household surveys of an emergency seed aid project in Ethiopia, as well as a retrospective evaluation of an agriculture app in Nepal. She also co-created AidData's Gender Equity in Development initiative, which focuses on bringing AidData's geospatial and research expertise to the gender space. Her expertise lies in household surveys, data management and analysis, retrospective evaluations, and geospatial analysis.
Prior to joining AidData, Katherine worked for Innovations for Poverty Action managing several different randomized control trials in Mongolia and Kenya. She has also managed a market access research project in Northern Uganda and conducted an off-grid electrification research project in Southern India. She holds an MA in International Business Relations and Environmental Policy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a BA in International Development and African Studies from Amherst College.
