Alysson Akiko Oakley

Alysson Akiko Oakley, PhD, is Vice President of Learning, Evidence and Impact (LEAP) at Pact, where she leads enterprise-wide strategy, learning, evidence, and impact. A senior international development executive and thought leader, she advises organizational leadership on strategy and performance, and leads efforts to strengthen how evidence and learning inform decision-making, program quality, and organizational impact. Her technical expertise spans international development, governance, democracy assistance, evaluation, and complex social systems.

Dr. Oakley serves on the Board of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and as Board Chair of AEA’s International and Cross-Cultural Evaluation group. She is also co-editor of the International Advances in Evaluation section of the American Journal of Evaluation and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, where she teaches program design, data visualization, and evaluation of democracy assistance and complex social system interventions.

Prior to joining Pact, Dr. Oakley was Associate Editor for the Cambridge University Press Southeast Asia “Elements” series, a principal Asia-Pacific analyst for Freedom House’s flagship publication Freedom in the World, Senior Advisor at the International Republican Institute, and Director of Programs at the U.S.-Indonesia Society. She has consulted for governmental, think tank, and private sector organizations on topics ranging from political risk to methodology. Dr. Oakley earned a PhD from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University.