Niamh Barry

Senior Director of Measurement & Impact

Niamh is the Senior Director of Measurement & Impact and leads the M&I practice at Caribou Digital. Niamh has worked as a measurement and evaluation professional since 2008, supporting clients worldwide with best-in-class measurement, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems. Niamh has extensive experience designing and leading impactful MEL systems for large (50+ grantee) multi-country programs and has conducted 50+ evaluations using experimental and non-experimental designs. She is passionate about building MEL systems and teams that generate insights when needed and are compellingly communicated to support action, including Caribou Digital’s signature interactive evidence synthesis approach. Her career started in women’s empowerment and expanded into finance, health, agriculture, livelihoods, and small businesses. Digital has been a unifying thread in her work over the past decade. Niamh has held several leadership positions and has successfully embedded measurement and impact at the strategic level of several organizations while building and mentoring multi-disciplinary teams. Niamh has been with Caribou Digital since 2016. Before joining Caribou Digital, Niamh was the Global Director for Monitoring and Evaluation at the Grameen Foundation. Niamh has a BA in History, Politics, and Sociology from the University of Limerick and an MSc in Global Health from Trinity College Dublin.

Contact them at: niamh@cariboudigital.net