Biography

Maria Ruth Jones is a Survey Specialist in DIME. Maria co-founded and now leads DIME Analytics, which is an initiative to support transparent, high-quality, and reproducible research at DIME. She also works on impact evaluations in agriculture and transport; current research projects focus on the impacts of large-scale, rural infrastructure projects in Rwanda. Maria joined the World Bank in 2009. Previous roles at DIME include coordination of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program impact evaluation portfolio (2012–16) and a program of impact evaluations with the government of Malawi (2009–11).