Meet the Speaker: Diana Epstein

Diana Epstein is the Evidence Team Lead at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Evidence Team develops government-wide program evaluation policies, sets evidence building priorities, and leads efforts to improve Federal agency capacity to build and use evidence. In her role, Diana supports implementation of Title 1 of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (Evidence Act), chairs the Evaluation Officer Council, and provides technical assistance on evidence and evaluation activities for a broad range of Federal agencies and functions. She was previously a research and evaluation manager at the Corporation for National and Community Service, and before that she worked as a program evaluator and policy analyst at Abt Associates, the American Institutes for Research, and the RAND Corporation. She has a B.S. in applied math-biology from Brown University, an MPP from the Goldman School at UC Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the Pardee RAND Graduate School.