Alejandra Mendoza Alcántara

Policy Design and Evaluation Lead

Monash University Sustainable Development Institute

Alejandra Mendoza Alcántara is the Policy Design and Evaluation Lead at MSDI’s Policy and Impact Team and a Consulting Fellow at The Governance Lab. Alejandra is an economist with 15 years of experience in analysing and evaluating public policies across fields including international development, economic development policy, entrepreneurship and international trade.

At MSDI she works on public innovation and system change projects. She is interested in exploring participatory and evidence-based approaches for policy making and works with policy makers and practitioners in using evaluation tools to design and test innovations to advance the Sustainable Development Goals.

Before joining MSDI, Alejandra worked for six years at the World Bank’s Competitiveness Policy Evaluation Lab in Washington D.C. coordinating the design and implementation of prospective impact evaluations in developing countries.

Alejandra has also worked with senior decision makers from multiple sectors on the use of indicators and stakeholder engagement processes to build strategic policy agendas and monitoring and evaluation frameworks.

Alejandra holds a Master degree in Public Administration from Columbia University (New York) and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico City).