Marlon is a Research Assistant at ISDC, where he is evaluating a Cash+ Anticipatory Action framework in Chad. He is a doctoral candidate in the EQUALFIN doctoral program at Freie Universität Berlin, supervised by Professor Manuel Santos Silva and Professor Jan Marcus. His research focuses on how to make development aid more effective, with particular interests in anticipatory action and climate-related development finance, using experimental and quasi-experimental methods of causal inference.
Before joining ISDC, Marlon worked as a Junior Manager for Sustainable Finance at KfW Treasury and KfW Development Bank, where he evaluated development projects, contributed to strategic priorities in an evolving development finance landscape, and helped develop the frameworks for KfW’s Green Bonds and the bank’s position on biodiversity. He also previously analyzed EU strategic investment as a Blue Book Trainee at DG ECFIN at the European Commission.
Marlon holds an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Mannheim and a B.Sc. in International Economics and European Studies from the University of Tübingen, including an exchange year at Tufts University.
