Malcolm Russell-Einhorn

A senior international affairs expert and international development researcher, practitioner, and educator with over two decades of experience in international legal and regulatory reform (including regulatory impact assessment), rule of law strengthening, judicial reform, and access to justice, parliamentary strengthening (including legislative drafting procedures), public management reform, business enabling environment diagnostics, anti-corruption strategy development and implementation, political economy analysis (PEA), decentralization, local government capacity-building and cross-sectoral programming integration. Development work has featured diverse technical and supervisory positions, ranging from those focused on delivery of programs by NGOs and consulting organizations, to leadership of a major academic development program and research center at SUNY-Albany. Has significant program evaluation experience with USAID, the U.S. State Department, and the U.S. Department of Justice, including recent service as a senior evaluation specialist on an evaluation of rule of law programs for the State Department (2018-19), team leader of a rule of law program evaluation in Myanmar (2017), and senior evaluator on a USAID Democracy, Rights, and Governance (DRG) portfolio evaluation in Zimbabwe (2015). Also served as team leader for a USAID case study of DRG cross-sectoral integration in Malawi (2016), and a study of a pioneering USAID cross-sectoral local government service delivery support project in Uganda (2017). Recently served as the DRG Specialist on development of a cross-sectoral integration guide for sustainable landscapes programming (2019), conducted a capacity-building assessment for a legal training academy in Uzbekistan (2019), and advised Transparency International on a study of judicial corruption in Georgia (2018). Has additional experience with governance and rule of law assessments in Bosnia (USAID), Latvia and Macedonia (World Bank), and China (State Dep’t), and overseeing several governance projects for USAID and the UK Department for International Development (DfID) in Africa.