Maureen Moriarty-Lempke – Senior Research Affiliate

B.A. (University of Vermont, Burlington), M.Sc. (University of Massachusettes, Amherst) Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Maureen Moriarty-Lempke is a regional planner and a land tenure and property rights specialist with experience in Afghanistan, Liberia, Haiti, Sri Lanka, North Ireland, and Kosovo, as well as countries undergoing land reforms such as Russia, Ukraine, and China. She has worked for organizations such as the World Bank, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, USAID, Tetra Tech ARD, and a variety of NGOs.

Maureen specializes in the development of land tools, having worked extensively with USAID in a collaborative effort to create tools to better assess the land tenure and property rights challenges in a given context, develop appropriate interventions and programs, and evaluate the impact of land tenure and property rights initiatives. She also specializes in Monitoring and Evaluation, creating M&E systems and conducting impact evaluations for organizations including the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Development Initiative of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and several international NGOs.

Her most recent work has been to develop a conflict sensitive programming tool for land interventions in order to design, implement, monitor, redesign and evaluate and mitigate their effects on the existing conflict context. She currently serves as a post conflict land specialist for the USAID Strengthening Tenure and Resource Rights (STARR) IQC.

She is a former Fulbright Research Scholar and a Visiting Lecturer within the Duke Center for International Development. She recently taught the Rotary Core Course “Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies.”