Carlos has eight years of experience designing and leading international data collections across Central America, South America and Sub-Saharan Africa and is an expert in facilitating enumerator training for international data collections. He has sector expertise in hard-to-reach populations and people in vulnerable situations in addition to global education and provides technical and managerial support to research projects for a range of clients, including the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS), the U.S. Department of Labor, and the U.S. Department of State.

Carlos serves as program director for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement portfolio evaluation, which uses a Most Significant Change methodology to identify and assess ILAB portfolio’s contribution to any emergent outcomes achieved or anticipated to be achieved by its USMCA technical assistance projects and engagement directly with the Government of Mexico and other tripartite partners in Mexico.

Previously, Carlos served as program manager for both of NORC’s Combatting Forced Labor in Brazil projects, which presented the client with data-driven sustainable solutions for reducing the prevalence of forced labor in the gold mining and cattle ranching sectors of Pará, Brazil. Carlos also served as project manager for NORC’s Evidence to Action project, which implemented and provided feedback on the International Conference of Labor Statisticians Guidelines Concerning the Measurement of Forced Labor in the garment sector in Argentina as well as built the capacity of national research institutions, government, and civil society organizations to undertake and use research to prevent, identify, and combat forced labor.

Additionally, Carlos served as the program manager for NORC’s $25 million USAID-funded Reading & Access Evaluation MOBIS task order, under which NORC conducted impact evaluations of early-grade reading projects in over 10 countries. Under this contract, Carlos facilitated the quantitative data collection training and oversaw fieldwork for the USAID/Pakistan Pakistan Reading Project (PRP) Endline Assessment and served as the qualitative research expert for the USAID/Kenya Tusome Endline Performance Evaluation.

Carlos is fluent in English and Spanish and has a working proficiency in French.