Performance Manager, e.kronoff@insaangroup.org

Born in Oregon, Ms. Kronoff is a native of the Pacific Northwest. She showed an early interest in the newly dissolved Soviet Union and the Near East and public service, volunteering at home and abroad in Ukraine as a teen, and working with international students and on environmental and consumer issues throughout university. She graduated with a B.A. in philosophy with a minor in classics, then left the academic world to pursue a more heuristic occupation with the U.S. Peace Corps. There she became captivated by both the CIS and development.

Elizabeth’s decision to build on her experience in Russia led her to begin a career in international development with the Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) in Tajikistan as a reporting officer, where she was quickly promoted to the regional position of Appraisal, Monitoring and Evaluation (AME) Technical Advisor, thanks to her detailed and intensive work on such programs as malaria prevention, the WFP’s Food for Work and School Feeding schemes, drinking water, agriculture and micro-finance programs.

In her capacity as AME Technical Advisor, she pioneered several region-wide approaches and wrote two operational manuals on project cycle management and monitoring and evaluation, as well as setting up the M&E system for offices in ten regional offices across Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as providing similar services as an internal consultant for the organization in Macedonia.

Ms. Kronoff was then requested to bring the same organizational dynamic and systems to the National Solidarity Program in Afghanistan, where she created a database that linked monitoring of qualitative changes in the lives of ordinary citizens to quantitative outputs, a unique output in the program at that point which was later adapted by GTZ and the World Bank. She was soon promoted to AME manager at the country level and was asked to act as interim head of reporting.

Elizabeth contributed similar services to another INGO in Afghanistan, Concern International, building on its participatory M&E programs for its part in the National Solidarity Program, and was also asked to manage a remote post and all of its programs. This provided her with invaluable management experience as the sole woman responsible for a large team in a volatile remote area.

She has been with Insaan Group since its inception as Performance Manager and has played several roles, foremost of which has been the developer of Philanthropic Return on Investment, a pragmatic, wide-ranging index that allows for the full range of social returns to be measured and recorded for improved performance, based on over a decade of experience in the field in non-profit work on four continents.

Ms. Kronoff is driven to make sure that the voices of the poor are heard by connecting qualitative and quantitative analysis, and solving other seemingly intractable problems of human development. She speaks four languages and reads several more. She enjoys Nordic skiing in winter and writing sonnets, and currently resides in Germany with her two children.