Kim Siegal

Kim Siegal is a senior researcher with nearly two decades of experience designing, conducting, and overseeing evaluations, primarily in agriculture and nutrition. She has led numerous evaluations on the African continent in the areas of agricultural systems, digital advisory services, smallholder resilience, agricultural market development, behavior change, and nutrition.

Siegal is currently the project director for a measurement and learning project with AGRA, leading data collection and analysis across 11 African countries to assess AGRA's impact on agricultural system- and farmer-level outcomes, including productivity, income, and resilience to climate change. Siegal was also the project director for a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded project that assessed both the potential of agri-clusters to spur agricultural development and the lending landscape for smallholders and small and medium enterprises to inform a large World Bank investment in Uttar Pradesh India. She led Mathematica's large-scale evaluation of AGRA's village-based advisor program, which spanned five African countries and drew on mixed methods to assess the program impact on agricultural systems, farmers' yields, productivity, and resilience, in addition to a formative evaluation of AGRA’s digital extension program.

Before joining Mathematica, Siegal served eight years as the global measurement, learning, and evaluation director for One Acre Fund in East Africa where she led the research and evaluation portfolio and ran numerous studies across eight African countries focused on smalholder profitability, well-being, and resilience. Her work has been published in journals such as Agricultural Systems, Maternal & Child Nutrition, Journal of Development Economics (forthcoming), American Journal of Evaluation, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. She holds a Ph.D. in public policy from George Washington University, an M.P.P. from the University of Chicago, and B.A. in psychology and sociology from the University of Pennsylvania where she graduated magna cum laude.