Charlotte Lane is a nutrition and food security expert who has managed several of 3ie’s cross-sectoral evaluation and synthesis projects to support food systems transformation and the adoption of healthy diets.  

Priori to her time with 3ie, Charlotte conducted research on HIV-exposed and -uninfected infants in sub-Saharan Africa. She also worked on community health and food security initiatives in Burkina Faso.  

Charlotte holds an AB in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University and a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Mark manages 3ie’s Development Evidence Portal and supports the production of systematic reviews and evidence gap maps in a variety of topics, with emphasis on agriculture and immunisation.

Before joining 3ie, Mark was a consultant for a number of development organizations, working on projects such as an experimental study examining how new evidence affects the decisions of policymakers and exploratory research to identify the most cost-effective anti-poverty interventions. He also did project management and evaluation work on a programme using SMS reminders to increase vaccination rates in India.

Mark has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Maryland, a Masters in International Development, School for International Training and Bachelors in Philosophy, College of William & Mary, Virginia.

Carolyn leads several research initiatives at 3ie, including the Agricultural Risk Insurance Evidence Program, the USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security Evidence Aggregation for Programmatic Approaches (REAPER) project, the policy and institutional reform (PIR) partnership with the Millennial Challenge Corporation, and 3ie’s first EGM of interventions addressing the root causes of irregular migration.   

She has over ten years of experience working on research covering social protection, poverty alleviation, maternal and child health, and modern slavery issues. Prior to 3ie, she managed the US Department of Labor’s Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking portfolio of global research projects. She was a member of the US delegation to the International Conference of Labor Statisticians, where her contributions led to updates in the international recommendations for child labor and work measurement and the first recommendations on forced labor measurement. She has also been a member of external evaluation teams, such as the follow up to Kenya CT-OVC and the Project FivesAlive! External Evaluation.  

Carolyn holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina, a Master of Public Policy from American University, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan.

Kristen M. Edwards is a PhD candidate in the DeCoDE Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kristen is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, Ida M. Green Fellow, and GEM Fellow. She earned her M.S. and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland respectively. At MIT Kristen studies machine learning applied to mechanical design with special interest in sustainable design and global development.