Sarah J. Tisch

Sarah Tisch is the project director for the Learning and Data Hub of the USAID-funded Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET). Dr. Tisch is responsible for leading the Famine Early Warning System Data and Learning Hub activity to manage, share, and facilitate use of data, information, and knowledge to help achieve the FEWS NET goal of sustainably preventing food insecurity and famine. She has led projects funded by the USAID, Millennium Challenge Corporation, the U.S. State Department, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, and the Atlantic Philanthropies.

For 35 years Dr. Tisch has served as a senior technical advisor in 38 countries, including seven years of full-time positions in other countries (Nepal, Philippines, Russia), and six years of intensive travel to Indonesia, and is a four-time Chief of Party for USAID.

Dr. Tisch has focused on the improvement of livelihoods and unleashing the potential of women and men around the world through agriculture, natural resource management, information technology, gender equality and inclusion, good governance, and civil society. She is skilled in strategy, program management, applied research, monitoring and evaluation, and learning modalities in complex and changing environments. She is passionate about implementation science and the use of evidence to inform decisionmaking, and is the co-author of Dilemmas of Development Assistance (Westview Press, 1994).