Bio

Marta Dormal is an Applied Economist specialized in Early Childhood Development (ECD). She is currently a Ph.D. Student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on ECD service quality measurement and improvement in low-income settings.

Before joining Harvard, she was a researcher on ECD at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. In that capacity, she provided technical assistance to governments in Latin America on the design, implementation and impact evaluation of their ECD interventions.

She also conducted impact evaluations with J-PAL/IPA in Uganda and worked as economist for the Ministry of Finance of Djibouti through the UK Department for International Development (ODI Fellowship Scheme).

She has a master’s in Economics from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.