Grace Escamilla
Business Development, Senior Manager
Expertise:
Location:
United Kingdom
"Well-behaved women seldom make history." -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"Well-behaved women seldom make history." -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Grace Escamilla is an international development expert with over 10 years’ experience. She leads complex proposals for Innovian while serving in key program roles in technical areas of interest. Her expertise is in gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE), monitoring & evaluation (M&E), communications, and project management with a focus on the MENA and Central Asia region. Her experience spans multiple countries, including Afghanistan, South Korea, the U.S., France, Argentina, the U.K., Turkey, and the D.R. Congo for clients including the European Commission, UN Women, the World Bank, UNDP, and USAID. Her work includes developing a communication strategy for the Executive Committee on Private Sector Development (PriSEC, an Afghan government entity), evaluating a $14M job creation project for Mercy Corps financed by the EU, developing a public-facing, online tracking system for private sector development reforms in Afghanistan, collaborating on and editing a toolkit on Women in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism for UN Women, and conducting original research on refugees delivered to a political advisor to President Emmanuel Macron. She holds an M.A. from King's College London in Conflict, Security and Development and a B.A. from Presbyterian College in Philosophy.
