JASBIR KAUR

Dr. Kaur is the founder and Executive Director of RISE International Consulting LLC. She has over 25 years of leadership experience in managing complex population-based surveys. Her international experience includes surveys and evaluations implemented for the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS) (Feed the Future Zone of Influence Surveys), Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (Resilience Focus Zone Surveys), and Bureau for Global Health’s Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), AIDS Indicator Surveys (AIS), Malaria Indicator Surveys (MIS), and Micronutrient Surveys, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (PHIA) surveys. Her U.S. domestic survey experience includes the CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES). 

Dr. Kaur is a strategic leader and a skilled negotiator who has engaged with collaborating partners, including host country governments, from design to dissemination of surveys and evaluations. Dr. Kaur has built and managed various portfolios including HIV and biomarkers for DHS surveys, and Food Security and Survey portfolio that implements the Surveys for Monitoring in Resilience and Food Security (SMRFS) project. She also led the development of the Feed the Future Zone of Influence (ZOI) Survey Methods Toolkit for USAID/RFS. 

Dr. Kaur has worked closely with USAID, the World Bank, NASA Harvest, USDA, the US Census Bureau, UNICEF, WHO, National Statistical Offices, private organizations in-country, and research institutions, including universities. Respected and highly valued by clients, colleagues, and subcontractors for management of contracts, technical competence, and high-quality deliverables, she has led surveys and evaluations in Angola, Botswana, Bangladesh, Benin, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Jordan, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Uzbekistan, and Zambia—and provided technical assistance to over 70 surveys.