Elena Moroz

Elena Moroz has more than 12 years of experience providing monitoring, evaluation, and learning services, and conducting mixed-method evaluations, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe.

Currently, Moroz is managing complex crop-cut data collection, leading qualitative data collection and analysis, and conducting a document review for the evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC's) Irrigation and Market Access Project in Niger, intended to improve agricultural productivity among farmers. She also recently led qualitative data collection in Burkina Faso, phone survey data collection across five countries, and the subsequent quantitative analysis for a five-country evaluation of the AGRA village-based advisors’ program that increases the reach of traditional agricultural extension programs by training locally-based lead farmers on good agricultural practices and how to disseminate the practices.

Previously, Moroz oversaw large multi-wave data collection for MCC's Georgia Education Project over the course of 8 years. She conducted qualitative and quantitative analysis for the performance and impact evaluations of the project, which included rehabilitating school buildings and teacher trainings.

Since joining Mathematica, Moroz has conducted quantitative and qualitative instrument design and testing, led data collection trainings, managed field work, provided data collection quality assurance, and conducted quantitative and qualitative analysis for evaluations of projects in education, agriculture, land reform, health, fisheries, work force development, climate change, and energy sectors. She has worked extensively in West and North Africa, with three projects in Morocco, including MCC's Fruit Trees project, MCC's Morocco Land Project, and MCC's Morocco Fisheries Project. In addition, Moroz has supported agricultural interventions focusing on irrigation, farmer training, and land reform in Burkina Faso and Senegal; education and workforce development in Ghana and Namibia; energy infrastructure in Benin; and water, sanitation, and early grade learning in Nepal. She also has extensive experience working with the U.S. Agency for International Development through her work providing monitoring, evaluation, and learning services for YouthPower Learning and YouthPower2 Learning. She has developed best practices, manuals, and training materials for computer-assisted personal interviewing instrument programming, translation, and data management, and trained internal and external staff in streamlined data collection processes.

Before joining Mathematica, Moroz conducted international development research at Harvard and Innovations for Poverty Action in Zambia, where she managed data collection and analysis for impact evaluations in the sectors of maternal and child health, family planning, community health workers, girl's empowerment, and water use. Before Harvard and Innovations for Poverty Action, Moroz worked on a sexual prevention program in East Africa and documented human rights abuses in the Arab Spring with Physicians for Human Rights.

Moroz holds a master's degree in international public health from Boston University, and holds a B.S. in neuroscience and a B.A in international development studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. She speaks French and Russian fluently.