Ms. Krueger is a market systems and gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) expert with over 15 years of experience providing technical advice in the field of private sector development with a specific focus on applying digital technology, market systems, and Value for Money (VfM) principles to project and strategy design for agriculture, humanitarian aid, business enabling environment reform, trade, urban development, and women’s economic empowerment programs.

Ms. Krueger is a proven strategic leader having managed large market systems projects with diverse teams. She is also skilled as a strategic advisor, coach, and trainer in the practical application of systems approaches to market development and is currently an advisor to USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, a World Bank funded program in West Africa (TFWA), a DFAT funded program in Indonesia (PRISMA), and a FCDO funded program in the DRC (Essor). Ms. Krueger is based in Morocco, has worked in over 15 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, and has implemented projects and conducted evaluations for leading donors including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, DFAT, IFC, FCDO, USAID, and the World Bank. She has a M.A. from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. from Vanderbilt University.

Ms. Kim is an experienced development researcher, evaluator, and data storyteller. She has both implemented and advised a variety of economic development programs including those focused on youth employment, workforce development, and girls’ and women’s empowerment. She is deeply knowledgeable about programs that utilize systems change approaches (including collective impact, market systems development, and chain-linked approaches) and thus brings a pragmatic approach to complex program design. Ms. Kim is well versed in mixed methods research, ranging from statistical modelling to nuanced qualitative data collection and analysis. She is also experienced in translating data into compelling and actionable insights through data visualization. From 2016 until 2021, Ms. Kim worked on the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF), which was highlighted by the ICAI as a “positive exception [across youth employment programs reviewed], with a robust approach to generating and using evidence.” At the World Bank, she managed a project focused on out-of-school adolescent girls in Ethiopia, which was highlighted in the Ethiopia Poverty Assessment of 2014, and field coordinated a research study looking at the welfare impact of manufacturing jobs at an industrial zone in which employees were primarily young women. Ms. Kim has a M.S. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a B.A. from Amherst College.

Michelle LeMeur is the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Director with Mercy Corps Nepal's USAID-funded BHAKARI (Building Hope Along the Karnali River Basin) program. Her professional and extracurricular GESI experience has centered on programmatic and organizational mainstreaming including diagnostics, analyses, project management, and training. Previously, she worked as the Program Development and Grants Manager with the Mercy Corps Mali team and focused on proposal development, internal and door reporting, program quality, and gender and inclusion technical support. She has humanitarian and development experience in the sectors of economic recovery and market systems, agriculture and food security, shelter and settlements, WASH, food assistance, resilience, education, and peacebuilding, spanning Nepal, Mali, Niger, Malaysia, Thailand, Italy, and the US. She holds a M.A. in International Development and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. from the same institution.