Kamilla Gumede is the Executive Director for J-PAL Africa at SALDRU. Prior to that she headed up J-PAL's policy outreach work in sub-Saharan Africa from the J-PAL global office at MIT. Her work involves working with governments and NGOs in Africa to decipher policy lessons about what works, help make policies more evidence based and more effective, and collaborate with researchers and policy makers to identify and run randomized evaluations that answer pertinent policy questions facing African decision makers. She has an M.A. in Economics from the University of Copenhagen, and an M.A. in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. She has previously worked for the South African National Treasury to promote policy and capacity building in Africa and globally. This included work with the African Union, NEPAD, the African Development Bank and the Commission for Africa. She has also worked for a number of international aid agencies in Europe and Africa, and brings to J-PAL a solid understanding of the policy environment in Africa.