Christine Beggs 

Christine Beggs is the Founder of Alternatives in Development (AltinDev), a strategy, research and evaluation consultancy whose clients include Adam Smith International, BRINK, the Fund for Innovation in Development (FID), the Gates Foundation, and Oxford University. She is currently leading initiatives focused on cost evidence for cross-sectoral innovations and foundational literacy programming at scale and serves as a research advisor for two implementation research platforms, with a focus on lesson observations, student assessments, and survey development. She recently completed a study on the middle tier of the Rwandan education system and a multi-country study on assessment-informed instruction. Prior to starting her own consultancy, Christine served as Vice President of Global Research and Evaluation at Room to Read where she oversaw Room to Read’s global Research and Evaluation practice, leading the development of evaluation and measurement strategies, serving as PI for research studies, and directing global efforts across twenty Room to Read countries to build and utilize evidence.

Prior to Room to Read, Christine was the Evidence Team Lead in the Office of Education at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) where she directed monitoring and evaluation, strategic measurement and reporting, research, and M&E capacity building for the USAID education sector.

She co-founded the Building Evidence in Education (BE2) Donor Working Group and served as USAID’s representative to the UN Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) working group on education data. She is an Emeritus Board Member of Advancing Girls’ Education in Africa. Prior to working in international development, Christine co-founded a private sector consultancy. Christine has a master’s degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.