Azra Nurkic Ph.D

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Biography

Dr. Azra Nurkic is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer at Institute for Development Impact. As a senior expert in program quality and impact, Dr. Nurkic provides leadership to I4DI associates and technical assistance to clients and partners in results-based management, design, monitoring, and evaluation of international development programs. With close to 20 years of international experience, Nurkic is a social development professional with intensive expertise in strategic program design, program effectiveness and staff capacity development in a range of operational and regional contexts. Prior to founding I4DI, she worked at American Council on Education as the Director of Program Quality and Impact of its Higher Education in Development program and The World Bank, as a social development scientist where she led the development of monitoring and evaluation systems for international development projects around the world. Nurkic has worked and traveled in more than 100 countries. Holds two Bachelor's degrees, one in Theory of Education and another in Primary Education, as well as an M.S. in Primary Education and holds a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education.