Jessica Creighton

Program Director

Jessica Creighton is Associate Director of the Bangladesh Public Administration Project. She specializes in managing large international projects, designing learning experiences, impact evaluations, and mixed-methods research. She has contributed to social science research across a variety of topic areas, including education, social accountability, public health, and energy efficiency.  Jessica was the Research Program Director at the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative from 2020-2023.  Prior to her time at Bloomberg Harvard, Jessica was the Assistant Director of the Transparency for Development (T4D) Project at the Ash Center.  T4D was a large-scale research project investigating the use of community-based transparency and accountability interventions to improve maternal and child health in five countries across Africa and Asia.

Jessica holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Tulane University and a Master of Education in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.