Roman Pogojev is a seasoned MERL Director at IBTCI, boasting 20 years of progressive experience in
international development encompassing project management, monitoring and evaluation, research,
strategy, capacity building, and business development. With a track record of consulting for 26 distinct
projects and agencies, he has overseen over 200 research, assessment, monitoring, evaluation, and
capacity building assignments across Eastern Europe and Caucasus, Central and South Asia, as well as
Africa. Notably, Mr. Pogojev has played pivotal roles as a MERL specialist, team leader, or management
consultant on numerous US Government-funded projects, including those by USG and the U.S.
Department of State, where he spearheaded the design of M&E work plans, crafted research
methodologies and data collection tools, managed data collection, processing, and analysis, supervised
large evaluation/survey teams, and ensured overall quality assurance. His extensive portfolio also includes
project management and implementation for esteemed organizations such as the World Bank, EBRD,
UNDP, UNCTAD, GIZ, JICA, Helvetas, the EU, FAO, and IFC, among others.
Mr. Pogojev possesses adeptness in both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, with
experience in designing methodologies and instruments for performance evaluations, impact evaluations,
sectoral assessments, socio-economic surveys, DQAs, verification activities, value chain analyses, cost-
benefit analysis, feasibility studies, meta-analysis, and organizational capacity reviews across diverse
sectors including economic growth, international trade, agriculture, food security, nutrition, SME
development, environment, infrastructure, women and youth empowerment, democracy and governance,
civil society, education, and mass media. Additionally, he is skilled in designing capacity building
workshops and providing training to beneficiaries and partners.
Within IBTCI, Roman has held key roles as a project director or MERL specialist on several notable
projects, including the USG/PLR Organizational Capacity Reviews project, the USG/Malawi
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Support (MELS) platform, the USG/Kenya NAWIRI Resilience
Food Security Activity, the CLDP/SABIT Evaluation for the Department of State across six countries of
Central Asia and Caucasus, and the USG/Mali Livestock for Growth evaluation, among others. Roman
Pogojev holds two Master’s degrees: one in International Economics and another in Business
Administration (MBA).