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Ms. Samantha Custer

Ms. Samantha Custer

Director of Policy Analysis at AidData

Ms. Samantha is the Director of Policy Analysis at AidData. She leads AidData’s Policy Analysis Unit to produce rigorous analysis of development investments and results, generate new evidence on the use and impact of open data, and leverage surveys to learn from the experiences of decision-makers in low- and middle-income countries regarding the impact of external money and ideas on domestic policy reforms. Custer directs AidData’s Transparent Development Footprint program, an effort to produce and analyze the most comprehensive set of data available on the overseas development investments of South-South Cooperation providers such as China and Gulf Cooperation Council countries.


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