Keith is a development economist passionate about generating and utilizing evidence in decision-making to expand the impact of foreign assistance. He co-founded Causal Design, a social enterprise specializing in data-driven policy analysis and poverty research. Before bringing the Causal Design team together, he supported research for The World Bank (DIME), Georgetown University’s Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation (gui2de), and the Liberian and Rwandan Ministries of Agriculture. Keith is a global expert in impact evaluation and has innovated its use in humanitarian programming.

Keith’s work is rooted in a passion for improving aid effectiveness and accountability in philanthropy. Ives was a Pablo Eisenberg Public Interest Fellow, has taught graduate-level courses on prioritizing and evaluating aid, and is currently the Senior Advisor for Humanitarian Monitoring and Research on USAID’s Humanitarian Assistance Evidence Cycle Award.

Before working in international development, Ives led Marines during Operation Iraqi Freedom where he received awards for excellence in leadership and combat logistics. It was those experiences that inspired his early career roles in humanitarian logistics at the Red Cross and Doctor without Borders