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Kate Sturla is a director on the Innovation Team at IDinsight, based in San Francisco.

In her role on the Innovation Team, Kate leads IDinsight’s results-based financing strategy as
well as internal initiatives to develop new services and resources for IDinsight’s client
engagements. Previously, Kate was based in India with IDinsight for 3 years. She led IDinsight’s
Patna office and managed multiple projects, including the evaluation of the world’s first
development impact bond and a learning partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation to provide evaluation services to agriculture non-profits.

Kate holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and South Asian studies from the University
of California, Berkeley and an MPA in international development (MPA/ID) from Harvard
Kennedy School. Kate speaks English, Spanish and Hindi.