Effective Intervention

Effective Intervention was founded in 2006 by a group of academic economists with the intention of learning how quickly child deaths could be reduced, and children's education raised, in some of the poorest and most neglected regions of the world.  We directly employ approximately 100 people in our projects in West Africa, and via our partners in India our projects employ approximately 500 persons.

Effective Intervention is a UK registered charity No. 1111709

Too often foreign aid projects deliver resources, but fail to impact outocmes.  We believe it is our duty to our clients, i.e. the children and pregnant mothers in these impoverished regions, to learn whether we are truly helping.  We start projects as randomized controlled trials, and then expand if, and only if, those trials meet their goals.

Management

Babourcarr Bouy joined Effective Intervention in 2017 and is CEO (Africa) responsible for all activities of Effective Intervention in Africa.  From 2004 to 2017 he was the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education where he provided strategic leadership and led the introduction of rigorous national testing under EGRA and EGMA. In addtion to his long and highly respected career in the field of eduction in Gambia, he has an M.A. in Education and International Development from the University of London.  In 2012 he was awarded the World Bank's Jit Gill Memorial Award for outstanding public service, making him the second African to ever be awarded this distinguished prize.      

Ila Fazzio joined Effective Intervention in 2007 as head of research.  Ila is responsible for the overall design and strategy regarding measurement of the outcomes of our projects, as well as other research questions.  In this work she trains and manages large groups of field workers for each project.  Ila received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cambridge University in 2007. 

Board of Trustees

Peter Boone is the Chairman of Effective Intervention.  He assists in the selection and design of projects, as well as raising financing.  He previously worked in finance at various entities (Salute Capital, Brunswick UBS) as a strategist and managing research partner.  He has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics, and a non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute of Economics, Washington D.C.  From 1993-1997 he was a lecturer at the London School of Economics and Director of the Emerging Market Finance program.  He received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1990.

Amy Boone is a Trustee of Effective Intervention.  She assists in the selection and monitoring of progress with projects, as well as raising financing.  She previously worked as a diplomat, having postings at US embassies in Germany, Nigeria and Ukraine, as well as a program officer for the Buckley Foundation, Chicago.  She attended Harvard University in the Ph.D. program in politics, and she received a B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Brigitte Granville is a Trustee of Effective Intervention, and a Professor in economics as well as Director of the Centre for Globalization Research at Queen Mary's University, London.   In the past she has worked in projects for the World Bank in Washington DC, the United Nations Development Programme in Gabon, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, the Ministry of Finance of the Government of the Russian Federation in Moscow, the Government of Ukraine in Kyiv and the Central Bank of Uzbekisan in Tashkent.  In 2007, Brigitte was appointed a Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, a decoration awarded by the French government for services to education.  Brigitte received a Ph.D. in economics from the European University Institute in 1997.