William Cartier

William Cartier serves as both MERLA director and IDIQ director of USAID/India’s CLAIM activity. He has thirty years of experience in international development, as Associate Professor at the University of the Andes in Bogota, Colombia, later as Senior Program Officer with the Ford Foundation in Lima, Peru and Santiago, Chile, Director of Monitoring and Evaluation at the Corona Foundation in Bogota, Colombia. He has served as senior technical advisor and chief of party for USAID funded programs in Latin America, Asia and Africa in the field of democratic governance and led monitoring, evaluation and learning platforms in Bangladesh, Liberia and the Dominican Republic and served as chief of party of Panagora’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Platform with USAID/Dominican Republic. He has conducted numerous assessments and program evaluations in democracy, rights and governance, decentralization, local government strengthening, transparency and accountability, youth development and justice reform. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Political Science and International Development from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and University of Toronto, Canada. He speaks Spanish and French.