Cristina Rosemberg Montes
Managing Partner
Cristina Rosemberg is a Managing Partner at Technopolis UK. An economist by training, she has close to 20 years of experience socio-economic impact assessments and evaluation in the areas of economic development, and research and innovation policy. Cristina has ample experience in designing and implementing studies that require a mixed-methods approach, including Theory Based Evaluation Methods (Contribution Analysis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Outcome Harvesting), Quasi-experimental design, data science techniques and Value for Money. She has ample experience in economic modelling, from ad-hoc modelling to econometric analysis.
She has trained 300+ policy experts on Monitoring and Evaluation, for UK Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), and the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero, in partnership with UCL. She has been appointed as a member of the Evaluation Trial and Advice Panel (2023-2025) to provide expert advice to all UK government departments. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Cristina has delivered work for clients in the UK, Ireland, Norway, Colombia, Peru, Chile, The Carribean, and for international organisations, including the European Commission and Inter-American Development Bank. Most of her work in the UK focuses on providing evidence to support strategic decisions and investments in priority policy areas including emerging technologies, R&I international collaboration, and multidisciplinary research.
Recent and current relevant assignments as Project Director include the Evaluation Framework and Baseline for the International Science Partnership Fund, which support R&I collaboration and capacity building with ODA and non-ODA countries (DSIT), the Evaluation of the UK participation in Horizon 2020 (DSIT), the Evaluation of the Fund for International Collaboration (UKRI), the Evaluation of UKRI’s COVID-19 response, the evaluation of Growth Hubs (for BEIS), and the Evaluation of the Strategic Priorities Fund (UKRI).
She is also the main author of the report “What methods work in evaluating the impact of RD&I public interventions”, for DSIT.
Prior to joining Technopolis, Cristina worked for BOP Consulting in London, a firm specialised in the culture and creative industries where she led projects on economic analysis, economic impact evaluation and intellectual property. In addition, Cristina’s work in the area of economic development stems from her time at Amsterdam Institute of International Development, the World Bank and Group for the Analysis of Development, GRADE (Peru).
She holds an MSc in Economics from Universiteit van Amsterdam and a BSc in Social Sciences with a major in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
