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Previously, Liesbet was a Fellow at the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, where she worked on education finance and service delivery in developing countries. Prior to Brookings, she was Director of the Overseas Development Institute’s (ODI) flagship program on Development Progress, financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, analyzing development progress across a range of sectors. As a fellow of ODI’s Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, she led several research projects on development finance and aid effectiveness, and the production and use of impact evaluations. Between 1997 and 2007, Liesbet lived and worked in Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos and Cambodia. She directed the economic reform program for the Asia Foundation in Indonesia, a technical assistance and research program on local economic development and growth. She also worked with the World Bank and IFC on private sector reform and the design and evaluation of SME programs in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. |