Elena holds a BA (Honours) of Social Science in Political Science from Madrid, where she originally comes from, and is an experienced development practitioner based in South Africa.
Her area of expertise is planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning. She has over eight years of experience in conducting evaluations for government, non-profit and development aid organisations working in a number of countries including Germany, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland and Tanzania.
Drawing from the learnings from monitoring and evaluation, she is particularly interested in the design phases of programme/project implementation. She is currently working in impact measurement for Imani Development, an Economic Development Agency.