Krystel Montpetit
Senior Policy Advisor, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Krystel Montpetit is a senior policy advisor in monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) with IISD’s Resilience Team.
Krystel is an environmental and development economist, applied econometrician, and foresight, risks, and resilience expert with nearly 15 years of experience in policy design and policy MEL, specializing in climate mitigation and adaptation.
Her expertise spans econometrics, economics, complex systems analysis, behavioural science, foresight and scenario modelling, risk methodologies, and predictive analytics for evidence-based policy design. She is skilled in meta-analyses, randomized controlled trials, time-series and longitudinal analysis, quasi-experimental methods, and mixed methods for policy MEL. Employing multi-solving approaches, Krystel has focused on the assessment, prevention, mitigation, and adaptation of climate and environmental risks, as well as on broader global development and well-being risks.
Her experience includes working with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Ethiopian government, the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the World Economic Forum, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Krystel holds a dual master’s degree in public administration from the London School of Economics and Sciences Po Paris, a master’s degree in environmental and development economics from Université Paris Dauphine, and postgraduate diplomas in climate economics and policy, behavioural science for public policy, along with a diploma in foresight for public policy from the School of International Futures. Her master’s thesis at the London School of Economics applied econometric analysis to investigate whether socio-economic equality predicts environmental and climate performance among countries with comparable levels of wealth and development.
Based in Geneva, she is fluent in French, English, Spanish, and Italian. Krystel is a Donella Meadows fellow and member of the Balaton Group, a global network of researchers and practitioners in systems for sustainability.