Susanna Krüger

Susanna Krüger is a fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin. Her areas of expertise include monitoring and evaluation methodologies, participatory methods and innovative financing mechanisms in international development and philanthropy.

She is the managing director of goodroot GmbH, a research and consulting firm that works with social investors, international organizations, NGOs and foundations to better describe their social impact. She combines expertise in classical evaluation and newer forms of organizational development. Clients include the United Nations, the World Bank, German and international NGOs, foundations and NGOs. She teaches at the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance as well as offers workshops and trainings in the NGO and foundation sector on how to monitor and evaluate complex projects.

Prior to founding goodroot, she lived and worked in the Middle East from 2005-2008, managed a knowledge management project in the German finance ministry in Bremen and developed curricula for the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance. She also worked on international development in the German parliament.

Susanna holds two master’s degrees, one in history, philosophy and international Law from the Free University in Berlin, the other in public administration from Harvard University, where she was a McCloy Scholar from 2000-2002.

At GPPi she contributes to the humanitarian aid evaluation work. She was part of the Cluster Approach Evaluation Phase II, and in 2011 she oversaw the Evaluation Framework for the UN Somalia Assistance Strategy. She currently contributes to a policy development project for DG ECHO.

Languages: German (native), English (very good), Arabic (basic), Polish (basic)