Martin Steinmeyer is a trained policy analyst, having earned a Master of Public Policy from the Sanford Institute at Duke University . He specializes in monitoring and evaluation methods for policy, programme, and project assessments. His experience includes work on a variety of evaluation-related contracts, covering the methodological preparation and structuring of evaluations, their implementation as well as quality control and methodological backstopping. He recently carried out an evaluation for GDI of the World Food Program's Emergency School Feeding Program (with focus groups in Sudan and Pakistan).

Mr. Steinmeyer's portfolio includes projects such as the "Design, implementation and dissemination of evaluation techniques and tools adapted to the European Commission's development aid and co-operation policies to third countries". In the context of this contract, he developed tools and methods for the evaluation of the education sector, the water and sanitation sector, and for the evaluation of initiatives for the promotion of rural development. He  worked on the evaluation of INTAS, a non-governmental organization under Belgian law, funded by the European Commission, that promotes the stabilization and development of the science in countries belonging to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on behalf of the European Union and its member states. Mr. Steinmeyer also managed the implementation of the EC framework service contract "Evaluations in the Areas of Human Development and Good Governance", as well as several evaluations implemented under this contract (e.g. "Evaluation of EC mobility grant programmes" and "Thematic evaluation of the integration of gender in EC co-operation with third countries"), ensuring effective quality control and methodological backstopping for the tasks performed.  

Prior to his work for the European Commission, Mr. Steinmeyer worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for its Management Development and Governance Division (MDGD), supporting the development of the UNDP policy for mainstreaming Human Rights into the organizations development policy. Mr. Steinmeyer is fluent in English and German with a very good knowledge of Spanish and working knowledge of French.