Subarna Mathes serves as strategy and evaluation officer on the Strategy and Learning team. She works closely with programs across the foundation as they develop strategy, supporting a learning culture and advising on the integration of evaluation and evaluative thinking into our work.

Prior to joining Ford, Subarna was a learning and impact program officer embedded within the Open Society Foundations’ Fiscal Governance Program. Before that, she had served as a consultant with Innovations for Scaling Impact (iScale), where she facilitated strategic planning and theory of change processes, and designed and conducted advocacy and networking evaluations for a variety of nonprofit organizations and philanthropies.

Subarna has an MPA in evaluation from the University of Washington, an MA in South Asian studies from the University of Michigan, and a BA in international affairs from the George Washington University.