Marie-France Guimond is the Programme Director for the Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crisis, a UK-Aid funded research programme consortium led by the International Rescue Committee (IRC). She has over 15 years of experience in research, evaluation, and programme management in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.

Prior to her current role, Marie-France was the chair of IRC’s Institutional Review Board. She also provided technical support to impact evaluations of IRC’s protection and governance programming in partnership with academic institutions, and led evaluations of IRC’s emergency programming and pilot projects. She developed IRC’s Humanitarian Research Toolkit, an organization-wide guidance to improve how research is implemented at the IRC.

She also worked as the research, monitoring and evaluation lead for IRC’s women’s protection programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and was a Development and Management Advisor in the Middle East with Oxfam. She was previously at Canada’s International Development Research Centre, managing a portfolio of international research projects and leading an evaluation of research programming in conflict-affected regions.   

Marie-France Guimond has a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and a Bachelor’s degree in International Development Studies from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.