Biography

Dr. Amanda Woomer is a monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) practitioner with a thematic focus on environmental peacebuilding, climate security, and conflict sensitivity. She is passionate about the role that MEL can play in improving the effectiveness, relevance, sustainability, participation and inclusion, and transformational possibilities of international development interventions. In her current role as a Senior Consultant with Oxford Policy Management as well as in her work as an independent consultant, Amanda works with teams and clients to build accessible, participatory, conflict sensitive, and adaptive MEL systems and to develop stakeholder capacities to implement those systems. She also regularly conducts evaluations of interventions with an eye toward inclusion and learning. Her partners and clients (current and past) include the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility, the Green Climate Fund, the IOM, Conservation International, the Environmental Law Institute, Colombia University’s Earth Institute, Habitat for Humanity International, and The Carter Center. 

A lifetime resident of Georgia, Dr. Woomer completed her Ph.D. in International Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University after finishing a Masters in Anthropology at Georgia State University and B.S. in International Affairs & French at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is professionally fluent in French and has had the opportunity to travel frequently for work, spending time in numerous countries including Tanzania, Kenya, South Sudan, the DRC, India, and the Philippines. In her personal time, Dr. Woomer stewards her 10-acre farm, hikes, birds, fly fishes, rides her horse Ranger, and goes camping with her dogs Daisy and Zero. She is also a semi-professional painter and photographer.