Laura Adams

Laura Adams

Guest Speaker

Director for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, Pact

Laura Adams is currently working for Pact, a nonprofit international development organization, as the Director for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for civil society and media programs worldwide. Previously, she served as Senior Director for Strategy, Development and Learning at Freedom House in Washington DC where she led organizational learning and applied research initiatives. She entered the applied democracy research field when she was a fellow in the Learning Division of the Center of Excellence in Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG Center) at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Prior to that, Laura was in academia for fifteen years, most recently at Harvard University as Director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Academic Advisor to the M.A. program in Russian, East European and Eurasian area studies, and a Lecturer in Sociology.