Torben Fischer is a Senior Economist and Director at IDinsight, currently based between Senegal and Germany. Torben currently leads IDinsight’s West and North Africa region on an interim basis. In this role, he is responsible for the region’s strategy, impact, partnerships, and team. Torben also leads IDinsight’s thinking on public finance, which aims to support (sub)national governments with data and evidence to raise, allocate and spend resources in more efficient, effective, and equitable ways. Traditionally, he has overseen the design and execution of impact and process evaluations and has worked with several organizations including both funders and implementers to design and operationalize Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning strategies. Prior to IDinsight, Torben led an impact evaluation in Pakistan’s low-income health insurance sector and co-founded Recycle Up! Ghana, an initiative to address waste challenges in Ghana with entrepreneurial approaches. Torben holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Mannheim, Germany, during which he also studied at the University of California, Berkeley and the University College London.