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Mettalytics applies data and evidence to help philanthropists, NGOs and governments maximize the beneficial impact of their actions.

Meet the Team

Dr. Brad Wong

FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT
Cyandra Carvalho

POLICY SPECIALIST
Suzi Overell

STRATEGY CONSULTANT

Dr. Brad Wong

Founder & President

Dr. Brad Wong is the founder and president of Mettalytics, and an affiliated researcher at the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health, at the University of Bergen, Norway. Brad is a global expert in cost-benefit and social return-on-investment analysis of international development interventions, having overseen or contributed to hundreds of economic evaluations in low-and-middle-income countries. He has published peer reviewed and technical reports across numerous sectors including agriculture, education, gender, nutrition, water and sanitation, poverty, trade and global health.

Brad’s cost-benefit research has been used to assist stakeholders to prioritize resources for greatest impact, to make investment cases for increased spending in particular fields and to identify cost-effective approaches to solving development issues. Due to the breadth of his experience, his research increasingly sits at the intersection of development areas, such as systematically reviewing the non-health impacts of vision correction and identifying the poverty and social protection benefits of school feeding programs.

Brad is currently Co-lead Editor on Disease Control Priorities 4, Volume 3: Interventions Outside the Healthcare System, and a Section Editor in Oxford University Press’s Encyclopedia on Water, Sanitation and Global Health, focusing on the economics of water and sanitation investments in low-and-middle-income countries.

Brad has advised and collaborated with the Malawian National Planning Commission, the Ghanaian National Development Planning Commission, the Government of Haiti, the Government of Timor-Leste, the UN in Bangladesh, the Government of India’s think tank, NITI Aayog and several NGOs.

Brad has been part of the presenting faculty on Harvard’s Executive Education course Valuing Life and Health and co-authored the Reference Case Guidelines for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Global Health and Development that aims to set standards for the estimation of social return on investment in international development. From 2021-2023, he was a board member of the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis.

His work has been featured in media around the world such as The Wall St. Journal, The Economist Magazine, The South China Morning Post, The Daily Graphic (Ghana), The Nation (Malawi) and the L.A. Times.

Dr. Brad Wong’s academic CV.

Cyandra Carvalho is a development and humanitarian practitioner with a 15 year career spanning the Government of Canada, Red Cross, the UN, Copenhagen Consensus Center and various ground level NGOs. At Mettalytics, Cyandra translates economic evidence into concrete, actionable, and realistic policy options for government, including locating critical avenues within the machinery of government where policy recommendations would have the strongest chance of uptake.

Throughout her career, Cyandra has integrated the results of economic evaluations as a key component of evidence-based discourse and decision-making within gender, development, and humanitarian issues. For example, Cyandra spearheaded an initiative to embed benefit-cost requirements within the Government of Malawi’s review process for development initiatives. Cyandra has pushed for the use of cost-effectiveness considerations in the selection processes of activities and interventions in the humanitarian sector.

Cyandra Carvalho

Policy Specialist

Suzi Overell

Strategy Consultant

Suzi has over a decade of management consulting experience, working across sectors with top-tier organizations on complex business and development problems. At Mettalytics, Suzi brings her strategic and quantitative lens to public policy challenges, having tackled issues as diverse as plastic reduction, food security, nutrition and climate change.

Acknowledgment of Country

Mettalytics Pty Ltd is an Australian business with a registered address in Bundjalung country, New South Wales. We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land upon which this business is incorporated and pay respects to elders past and present.