Daniel Sabet was most recently a Senior Learning Advisor at the United States Agency for International Development with over 20 years of experience researching, evaluating, and supporting democracy, human rights, institutions, and governance (DRG) interventions. Previously, he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and prior to that a Technical Director at Social Impact, where he led and oversaw numerous evaluations of US government funded DRG programming. These include randomized controlled trials, longitudinal studies supported by process tracing, and numerous cross-sectional studies, all using mixed methods.
Daniel has expertise on issues of public sector reform in diverse policy arenas, including public security, the energy sector, public financial management, public procurement, and the civil service. Much of his work focuses on the role of citizens, civil society, and media in creating government accountability and reducing corruption. He has published numerous policy papersand evaluation reports in addition to his academic writing, which includes Police Reform in Mexico (winner of the Herbert A. Simon Book Award), Nonprofits and their Networks, and Understanding Political Science Research Methods.
He has served as a visiting professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, taught as an adjunct professor at American University, and was the founding director of a research center at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. Daniel has a PhD in Political Science from Indiana University, and he is a former Fulbright Fellow.