Jodi Nelson
Title
Director of Impact Planning & Improvement (IPI)
Organization
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Jodi Nelson, director of Impact Planning & Improvement (IPI), leads a central team that creates the guidelines and standards for strategy and measurement at the foundation. IPI works across the foundation’s three program areas (Global Health, Global Development and U.S. Programs) to manage a strategy process that helps program teams and leadership execute on the foundation’s goals.
Prior to joining the foundation, Jodi spent eight years at the International Rescue Committee (IRC), where she led an initiative to bridge the gap between academics and aid workers to strengthen the quality of data used to effect and measure change in post-conflict countries. She founded the IRC’s department of Research, Evaluation and Learning. She has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, and has taught at Princeton and New York University.
Posts By Jodi Nelson
September 20, 2011 / Jodi Nelson, Nigel Twose
Firms maximize their profits by developing strategy with targets, tracking progress, and using incentives to drive achievement. Without the natural feedback of the market, how can we use this approach to drive toward results for the poor?
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