Academic Director do Outcomes Lab | Blavatnik School of Government da University of Oxford
Mara is the inaugural academic director of the Government Outcomes Lab at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. She leads a multi-disciplinary team of research and policy engagement specialists, focusing on innovative public sector contracting and effective cross-sector partnerships to achieve better social outcomes and tackle grand challenges.
Mara has two decades’ experience in connecting academic insights to decision making for social impact. She has provided input for decisions on Outcome funds and Outcomes Contracts in the UK, the EU, foundations, and international development agencies working in LMICs. In her previous posts she has worked with health policy makers and healthcare providers in the UK, Italy, Ontario and the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria as well as policy makers at the Home Office, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Office of the Deputy Prime minister in the UK.
Mara é uma modeladora de decisões experiente com interesse em métricas de impacto e no uso de dados para informar melhores decisões. Ela é particularmente apaixonada pelas formas como os governos podem trabalhar com o setor privado e sem fins lucrativos para acelerar o progresso em direção a objetivos partilhados. Ela adora dar sentido aos dados e atualmente trabalha no fomento da colaboração de dados INDIGO.
Ela é economista (economia do bem-estar e economia da saúde) e analista de decisão com formação pela Universidade Bocconi em Milão e pela London School of Economics and Political Science.
