Rahel [user:field_middlename] Kahlert

Rahel Kahlert is a Senior Evaluation Officer at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. Rahel was a long-term Evaluation Expert Consultant with the OSCE, and an evaluator with the U.N.-affiliated European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research. Rahel has twenty years of experience in leading evaluation projects in intersectional policy areas including public health, education, security, and social services. Rahel has evaluated UN- and EU-funded projects targeting vulnerable groups. She trains on a wide range of evaluation topics including participatory, gender-responsive, evidence-based evaluation.

Before joining the European Centre, Rahel was the Head of Evaluation and Deputy Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Health Promotion Research, leading evaluations in the areas of mental health, health literacy and health promotion. Prior to her tenure in Austria, Rahel was a Research and Evaluation Associate with the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin as well as an Ethics Fellow with the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Rahel Kahlert holds a Ph.D in Public Policy from the University of Texas at Austin, where she focused on evaluating effectiveness and impact. Rahel received the Emmette S. Redford Award for Outstanding Research for her evaluation research from UT Austin.