Christine Beggs 

Christine Beggs is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Alternatives in Development, a strategy, research and evaluation consultancy whose clients include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, BRINK, Adam Smith International, and RTI International. She is currently leading an initiative focused on cost evidence for foundational literacy at scale, a study on the middle-tier of education systems in Rwanda and serves as a research advisor for the uBoraBora implementation research fund. Prior to starting her own consultancy, Christine served as Vice President of Global Research and Evaluation at Room to Read when 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 initiated USAID’s cost work within the education sector, and has contributed to countless guidance documents and evidence products for the 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), the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) working group on education data and served as a member of the Education in Conflict and Crisis Network (ECCN) Steering Committee.  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.