Elias Sagmeister

Elias Sagmeister is a research associate with the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. His areas of expertise include development cooperation and organizational development. In his PhD studies, he focuses on monitoring and evaluation in international development and humanitarian assistance. Before joining GPPi, Elias worked on studies related to capacity development, monitoring and evaluation in the energy and development sector. He spent several months in Bangladesh conducting an impact assessment in the rural energy sector for what was then the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)

Elias is a team member on the project Evaluation and Review of Humanitarian Access Strategies, which is commissioned by the European Commission (DG ECHO). Before that, he was part of a project commissioned by UNDP to advise an evaluation of the UN Somalia Assistance Strategy. In 2011, for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), he facilitated a Project Progress Review of the Energy Policy in Development Program.

Elias studied international development and economic psychology at the University of Vienna in Austria. During his studies, he interned for the United Nations Industrial Organization in Vienna and for non-governmental organizations in Addis Ababa and New York. He completed a research semester at the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, where he published on tax behavior in Argentina. In 2009, he received a postgraduate certificate from the Centre for Advanced Training in International Development at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Languages: German, English, Spanish