Alaka is Program Manager of the World Bank’s Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund, a multi-donor trust fund that promotes the use of rigorous evidence to design policies to improve education, health, access to quality water and sanitation, and early childhood development in low and middle income countries. She received her PhD in Economics from Brown University in 2007 and completed post-doctoral work at Harvard University and Innovations for Poverty Action. After joining the World Bank as a Young Professional in 2009, she has worked in both research and operational settings across a diverse set of country contexts, including as a core team member of the World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society, and Behavior. Her research has focused on the quality of service delivery, discrimination, early childhood development and education, and cost analysis.