Arnaldo Pellini

Arnaldo is a Research Associate at the Research and Policy in Development programme of ODI. His background is in economics with a specialization decentralization and local governance reforms, community participation in local governance and service provision, in particular education, and evidence-based policy influencing processes. Arnaldo has more than ten years of field experience at national and local level in Asian countries. He joined ODI in 2008 after two years working with UNDP in Vietnam on a programme to improve research management and policy engagement at the Vietnamese Academy for Social Science. Prior to that, he was in Nepal and Cambodia with GTZ and DED managing local governance reforms and community development. He has an MPhil in economic development, and a PhD in education and development founded on research on the decentralisation reforms in Cambodia. Arnaldo has a good knowledge of the design and monitoring of processes that enable the translation into policies of research evidence. Arnaldo has extensive experience facilitating meetings, workshops and trainings for governmental and non-governmental actors and is a PRINCE2 and MSP APM qualified project and programme manager. Since 2009 Arnaldo is based in Dumaguete, Philippines