Aprille Knox

Aprille Knox is Associate Director of Policy at J-PAL Global, where she works with governments, donors, NGOs, academics, and others to build partnerships and advance evidence-informed policymaking. She helps guide J-PAL’s Policy and Communications vertical, which synthesizes and shares insights from randomized evaluations to inform policy design and scale decisions. 

Aprille began her career at J-PAL in 2017 and has held successive roles in the Policy and Communications group. She leads the Governance, Crime, and Conflict Initiative (GCCI), which generates experimental research on policies to promote good governance and reduce crime and violence. In addition, Aprille oversees learning agenda development for the Strategic Impact Evaluation and Learning (SIEL) program, a learning partnership between the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s (FCDO), Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), and J-PAL aimed at embedding rigorous evidence into FCDO’s development and foreign policy decisions.

Prior to joining J-PAL, Aprille worked in a variety of roles related to advancing state capacity and addressing fragility, including with IPA in Liberia, Results for Development Institute, and the United States Peace Corps in Guinea. She holds a master’s degree in Global Affairs from Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and a bachelor’s degree in international studies from Boston College.

Outside of work, Aprille plans every vacation around a good hike and, when at home, enjoys tending to her plants and learning how to crochet.