Felipe Alexander Dunsch from Hamburg studied Political Sciences at the University Hamburg and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. During his master studies he also completed a year as a visiting scholar at the Columbia University in New York. During his Mercator year, he focused on evaluation methods of development cooperation, especially on randomized field work and its impact on the programming and implementation of multilateral donor organizations. Felipe Dunsch now works at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.