Marko Pešić

Senior Evaluation & Public Administration Expert

Marko Pešić is a policy, impact-assessment and programme-evaluation expert with more than 15 years of experience in public administration reform, policy and regulatory assessment, risk analysis, programme implementation and evaluation. His work combines economic,

Education & Qualifications

MA in Economics — 2012

Marko’s academic background in economics supports his work in policy analysis, economic appraisal, impact assessment, programme evaluation and quantitative analysis.

His professional specialisation has subsequently developed across policy and regulatory impact assessment, monitoring and evaluation, disaster-risk reduction, public administration reform and EU accession.

Methods & Professional Capabilities

Policy research and evaluation

Marko has extensive experience in the design and delivery of policy studies, programme evaluations and impact assessments. His work covers evaluation frameworks, baseline studies, indicators, monitoring systems, policy and regulatory analysis, institutional assessment and evidence-based recommendations.

He applies evaluation criteria such as relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, sustainability and added value, adapting analytical frameworks to the policy, programme and institutional context of each assignment.

Quantitative and economic analysis

  • Cost-benefit analysis
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Multicriteria analysis
  • Ex post impact analysis
  • Risk assessment
  • Baseline analysis
  • Indicator development
  • Quantitative data analysis
  • Monitoring-system design
  • Data-collection tool development

Qualitative and institutional research

  • Document and regulatory analysis
  • Stakeholder consultation
  • Structured and semi-structured interviews
  • Institutional analysis
  • Policy and programme analysis
  • Implementation analysis
  • Evidence validation and triangulation
  • Governance and capacity assessment

Marko combines quantitative and qualitative evidence to identify not only whether an intervention has produced results, but also the institutional, regulatory, economic and implementation factors that explain those results.

Disaster risk, environment and land-based systems

Marko has particular experience in assignments at the intersection of public policy, environmental management and territorial resilience.

His work has addressed:

  • Disaster-risk reduction and resilience
  • Climate-change adaptation
  • Nature-based solutions
  • Flood-risk reduction
  • Land-use interventions
  • Forestry and agroforestry systems
  • Ecosystem restoration
  • Agricultural and rural development
  • Environmental and socioeconomic effects of land management
  • Integration of environmental approaches into policy and regulatory frameworks

Expertise & Methods

Agriculture & Common Agricultural PolicyMonitoring & EvaluationPolicy Evaluation & Impact AssessmentProgramme Design & ImplementationRisk Assessment

Selected Projects

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