Mark Daku
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer (TDY), Climate Finance Support
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolMark Daku is a Monitoring & Evaluation specialist and policy-focused strategist with over a decade of experience applying rigorous mixed-methods research to strengthen results frameworks, KPIs, and performance reporting across the UN system. Currently supporting WFP’s Climate Finance team, he has led design and evaluation work on corporate initiatives like SAMI/COSMOS and helped automate APP data pipelines to turn performance data into decision-ready insights. His background blends academic depth—a PhD in Political Science and prior roles as a university lecturer—with hands-on consultancy for UN agencies on survey design, evaluations, and theory of change development. He has repeatedly bridged strategy and measurement, from drafting management results frameworks to operationalizing success measures for country and global programs. Having lived and worked across North America, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific, he brings cross-cultural fluency to stakeholder engagement and localization efforts. Unusually for an M&E practitioner, he combines technical programming exposure (R, Java) and data systems thinking with executive-level strategy training (Executive MBA), enabling both analytic rigor and organizational buy-in.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Quantic School of Business and TechnologyDiploma Computer Programming, Diploma Computer Programming at Humber CollegeHon. B.A. Political Science Specialist, Hon. B.A. Political Science Specialist at University of TorontoPhD Political Science sub-fields: Comparative Politics (Africa and Latin America) and Political Theory, PhD Political Science sub-fields: Comparative Politics (Africa and Latin America) and Political Theory at McGill UniversityAfrican Doctoral Academy Summer School in Research Methods Monitoring & Evaluation, African Doctoral Academy Summer School in Research Methods Monitoring & Evaluation at Stellenbosch University
English, FrenchProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mdaku/mdaku.github.io
Jul 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
mdaku/drake-lyrics
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes in 17 days
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