Meghan Armistead is a Senior Research and Policy Advisor at Catholic Relief Services (CRS), focused on identifying, analyzing, and translating evidence for improved humanitarian and development policy. Her portfolio focusses on local leadership, localization, civil society and aid reform. Previously, Meghanwas a Senior Technical Advisor in the Program Quality and Impact team at CRS, working with partner agencies around the world and supporting local leadership. Over the past 20 years, Meghan has worked with community, faith-based, and national organizations overseas to build partnerships, strengthen organizational capacities, and to help scale civil society leadership. She has been an NGO Development Volunteer with the Peace Corps in Haiti and worked for Lutheran World Relief (LWR), in East and West Africa, as well as serving at LWR headquarters focused on global program quality. She has a BA in History from Tufts University and an MA in International Development and Economics from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
