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Salif Jaiteh (Senegal)

Economist I

Leads the technical design and execution of evaluations and other client services and ensures their adherence to ethical standards.

Salif Jaiteh is an Economist on the Research and Evaluation Team at IDinsight, currently based in Berlin, Germany.

Prior to IDinsight, Salif worked on a variety of impact evaluations and research projects focusing on issues around development. He has supported and led impact evaluations on financial intermediation in Zambia and the One Health approach in Sierra Leone and evaluated the Microfinance for Decent Work Programme in India, Pakistan and Vietnam for the International Labor Organization. In his research during graduate school, among other things, he focused on migration attitudes and studied how to improve the measurement of wealth using remote sensing.

Salif holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Mannheim and a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. Salif is fluent in Mandinka, German, English and Spanish.