Laura Rana has nearly fifteen years’ experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) across the international development and humanitarian sectors. Her experience covers a wide range of sectors and contexts, with a particular focus on children and young people, and in-depth experience in Bangladesh. Recent full-time roles including leading the British Red Cross’ PMEAL team, and working as the Global MEAL Advisor for War Child UK, where she led the organisation’s CHS self-assessment.
Laura has an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Oxford and an MSC in Development Studies from SOAS, and is about to commence a MSt in Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cambridge. She specialises in participatory, action-oriented approaches – for example, leading the design and piloting of a pioneering child-participatory Complaints Feedback and Response Mechanism while leading the MEAL team for Save the Children’s response to the Rohingya refugee crisis.