Marian Wittenberg
Marian Wittenberg joined DEval in August 2020. During his studies, he gained practical experience at the regional office of the German Development Finance Institution „Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft" (DEG) in Johannesburg, at the International Financial Institutions unit at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Private Sector Department at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). Marian Wittenberg holds a M.Sc. in International Development and Management from the University of Lund in Sweden and a Bachelor of Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Witten/Herdecke, focusing on development economics throughout his studies. In his master thesis he examined among others the quality of rule of law on the ability of development banks to mobilize private investments to achieve the 2030 Agenda.
Key qualifications
- Thematic focus
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Development economics,
behavioural economics,
private and financial sector development
- Methodological focus
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Qualitative methods of empirical social research and evaluation, i.a. (quasi-)experimental study designs
- Regional focus
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Sub-Saharan Africa,
South Asia
Evaluations and Projects
Publications
- Meta-evaluation on the Quality of (Project)Evaluations in German Development Cooperation
- Herausforderungen und Erkenntnisse der organisationsübergreifenden Meta-Evaluierung von (Projekt-)Evaluierungen in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
- Meta-Evaluierung zur Qualität von (Projekt-)Evaluierungen in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit