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Perisha Peko Raznatovic

Periša Ražnatović

International Development Consultant, smartICT4D

Biography

Peko Raznatovic is an international development consultant with 10 years of experience in Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). Peko has a career track record as a planning, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (PMEL) specialist. He advises social enterprises, NGOs, philanthropists, and multilateral organizations on program design, digital transformation, business development, impact evaluation, and ICT4D product development.

As an independent ICT4D consultant and previously as a Program Director at Worldreader, he has worked on the design and implementation of emergency education, EdTech, digital literacy, women empowerment, and agriculture (ICT4Ag) projects in Liberia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, India, Jordan, Peru, and Cambodia.

Alongside his work, Peko is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University. His research interests cover international development topics such as ICT4D/digital development, global aid architecture, and financing for development. Currently, he examines the effect of ICT4D projects on governance, public policy, and democratic institutions in developing countries.

Background and education

  • (2020-) PhD Candidate, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  • (2011-2012) MA International Relations, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals
  • (2010-2011) MA Development Studies, International Institute of Social Studies/Erasmus University Rotterdam

Awards

  • 2010-2012Erasmus Mundus MAPP Category A Scholarship
  • 2007-2008Open Society Foundations - Undergraduate Exchange Program Fellowship

Professional memberships & affiliations

  • Development Studies Association

Research

Research interests

  • Digital Development (ICT4D)
  • Financing for development
  • Planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning (PMEL)
  • Political economy of development