Lane Pollack is a Senior Learning Advisor with USAID's Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL). She serves on the Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) team in the Office of Learning, Evaluation and Research (LER). In this role, she provides direct Mission support and collaborates with regional and technical bureaus to help teams integrate CLA practices into their programming and operations. Lane contributes to PPL-led as well as other technical trainings, resources and engagements to advance CLA across the Agency and engages with US-based partner institutions to share and learn from Agency-wide approaches and the broader development community in areas related to organizational learning and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL). From 2012-2016, she served as Organizational Learning Advisor for USAID Uganda, where she worked with Mission staff, IPs and local stakeholders, to support, shepherd and evolve USAID's portfolio-wide approach to Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA). Prior to this position, Ms. Pollack served for two years as Knowledge Management and Enterprise Development Advisor in USAID's Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment (E3).
Through previous positions in NGO's and consulting, Lane brings experience designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating USAID (and other) funded programs focusing on private sector development, as well as hands-on experience in corporate training, project management and business administration. She holds MBA degrees from the University of Texas and Pontificia Universidad de Católica in Santiago, Chile.