Annabelle Poelert holds a Master of Arts in International Relations and a Bachelor of Arts in Political History and International Relations, with a minor in Development Geography, both from Utrecht University (The Netherlands). She currently works at Akvo Foundation where she is the Project Manager; and Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) specialist.

Annabelle has experience in designing and setting up monitoring systems for programs and projects in the areas of civil society; biodiversity; agriculture; and WASH throughout Eastern and Southern Africa. She specialises in the Theory of Change methodology for program design, and has experience in using both quantitative and qualitative monitoring tools, for tracking progress of projects and measuring results.

Her research interests include Theory of Change; monitoring framework design; survey design; and design of large-scale (multi country) monitoring systems.