Contact

Email: mpalenberg@gppi.net

Expertise

Strategy & Evaluation

Recent publications

Markus Palenberg (2011)

Tools and Methods for Evaluating the Efficiency of Development Interventions

Report for Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Andrea Binder, Markus Palenberg, Jan Martin Witte (2007)

Engaging Business in Development: Results of an international benchmarking study

GPPi Research Paper No. 8

Markus Palenberg, Wolfgang Reinicke, Jan Martin Witte (2006)

Trends in non-financial reporting

GPPi Research Paper No. 6, Berlin: Global Public Policy Institute

Fellow

Markus A. Palenberg

Markus Palenberg is the managing director of the Institute for Development Strategy (IDS), Munich and a fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin.

From 2005-2008 Markus co-led the GPPi Consulting Practice and specialized in global and regional partnership programs and public-private development partnerships, leading evaluations and research assignments for these instruments. Before joining GPPi in 2005, Markus held senior management and consulting positions. From 2000-2004, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc. in its Paris, Cologne and Munich offices. As Project Manager, he specialized in strategy projects in both the not-for-profit and for-profit sectors. He was also Corporate Projects Manager with the Scout24 Group, responsible for strategy, mergers & acquisition and change management projects.

Markus holds a PhD in theoretical physics from RWTH Aachen, Germany and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, for two years.

Languages: German, English, French, Italian, Dutch