Alison Fahey

Alison Fahey is the Global Director of Partnerships and Strategic Initiatives. In this role, she guides strategy, launching, and advising a portfolio of new and existing partnerships with governments, international NGOs, academia, and the private sector. She leads new policy projects and other innovations aligned with Board priorities. 

Alison joined J-PAL in 2014 and most recently served as Global Director of Policy and Communications, leading the group that synthesizes and shares insights from randomized evaluations to inform policy design and scale decisions with partners worldwide. She previously served as the founding Executive Director of J-PAL Middle East and North Africa, where she led J-PAL's newest regional office based at The American University in Cairo, guiding strategy and growth for the office's research, policy, capacity building, and operations teams, and forging partnerships for evidence generation and use with innovative policymakers across the MENA region.

Prior to joining J-PAL, Alison worked in a variety of positions related to service delivery, economic growth, and decentralization with USAID in Afghanistan and Jordan, and with the World Bank in Indonesia. Alison was a Fulbright Scholar in Jordan and she holds an M.P.A. in International Development from Princeton University.