President
George Washington University and Strategic Research Concepts, United States
Denise L. Baer, Ph.D., is a political scientist, Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) professional, a Scholar-Practitioner Fellow at George Washington University with over 30 years’ experience in research and evaluation with substantive specialties across the range of democracy support including elections and campaign finance, social movements and civic groups, youth engagement, political parties, parliamentary strengthening, gender lens programming and private sector engagement. Baer served as the DRG TIG Communications & Liaison Chair for 2022-2025 and previously as the DRG TIG Chair. She is President and Founder of Strategic Research Concepts, a consulting firm focused on social science research and evaluation. Baer’s areas of expertise include practitioner-scholar collaborations and evidence-building based on rigor, learning agendas and mixed methods. Recently she was an evaluation and gender advisor for the Swedish International Development Agency and USAID’s Africa Trade and Investment Program and was the Founding Director of the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) Evaluation Department, one of the four core National Endowment for Democracy (NED) core institutes. She has done consulting for a variety of U.S. federal agencies and nonprofits in democracy, governance, parliamentary and political party strengthening and women’s empowerment and has taught research and evaluation at the undergraduate and graduate levels, most recently at George Washington University. She is the author or co-author of three books and scholarly articles which use experimental, survey and qualitative data, and is completing work on a book Delivering Measurable Performance: Performance Evaluation Methods, Strategies and Tools for Policymaking and Public Management, under contract with SAGE Press. Baer holds a Ph.D. in political science and research methods from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and is a graduate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute of Management.
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