As the Monitoring and Management Manager for the Managing for Results (MfR) team, Anjali Richards ensures that WRI programs and country offices establish and maintain high quality planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning systems to deliver robust, meaningful results with a focus on equity. She brings deep expertise in leading complex monitoring and measurement systems, strengthening data quality and learning practices, and supporting adaptive management across multi-country portfolios. Her background in mixed-methods analysis, capacity strengthening, and translating evidence into decision-making contributes to MfR’s focus on rigor, learning, and sharing impact.

Before joining WRI, Anjali designed, managed and implemented impact evaluations and data measurement systems for USAID, The World Bank, The Brookings Institution, ideas42, Innovations for Poverty Action, and private-sector partners, helping organizations strengthen decision-making, accountability and long-term impact. Her sectoral background has spanned sustainable agriculture and food security, climate resilience and adaptation, nutrition, water, livelihoods, humanitarian assistance, and public policy. While at USAID, she led a $125 million global food security portfolio, designing demand-driven metrics and providing technical assistance on evaluation design across more than 15 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa.

She holds a Master’s in International Development and Economics from University of California, San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, and a B.A. in Political Science and International Affairs from Emory University.

She is a California native but currently resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two children. In addition to work, she has a passion for writing and has been published in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy Journal, and quoted in the New York Times. She loves sharing her “travel bug” with family and practicing Spanish with her kids.