About Us
LEAD Analytics is a small, women-owned business founded in 2010 by Nancy McCarthy, who earned a PhD in Agriculture and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley in 1996, and a JD from the George Mason University School of Law in 2009. McCarthy, who has more than 15 years of experience working in developing countries, collaborates with a wide network of research partners and development practitioners. The company is registered and based in Washington DC.
Partners
LEAD has established partnerships with leading universities in the United States and abroad; including colleagues from American University; University of California at Davis, Berkeley, and San Diego; University of Maryland; Hohenheim University, Germany; the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research, Ghana; and the Universidad de Talca, Chile, University of Zambia, and the University of Malawi. This network of university connections means that LEAD Analytics can tap into a wide pool of both faculty and graduate students. Additionally, through nearly 20 years of extensive fieldwork, LEAD Analytics has developed contacts within a number of agriculture and/or environment ministries, and has built a strong network of local and international consultants in a number of countries, particularly in East and West Africa, and to a lesser extent in Southern Africa and Latin America.