John Floretta is helping to establish the South Asia Center for Learning and Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) led by J-PAL South Asia. John works on building monitoring and evaluation capacity in the region and supporting dissemination of policy lessons and scale-up of successful programs. His career has focused on international development program management and analysis. He worked in the UN system in China for five years in volunteer and civil society promotion, disaster management, and food security and later conducted analysis and evaluations with Mercy Corps and implemented learning management strategies at Nike Foundation. He holds a Masters of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.