Ritu Nayyar-Stone

Dr. Nayyar-Stone is an economist specializing in intergovernmental finance, fiscal decentralization, and strategic municipal financial management with over 15 years of experience working with national, state, and local governments. Since joining the Urban Institute in 1995, Dr. Nayyar-Stone has worked on issues related to public finance, performance management, and infrastructure finance with government officials in Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Panama, Poland, Romania, and Russia. She has trained project managers in donor organizations – including both The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank – on outcome monitoring to track aid effectiveness. Dr. Nayyar-Stone has prepared guidelines on implementing performance management to improve local service delivery for The World Bank, UN-Habitat, and UNDP, and trained government officials on implementing performance management systems to improve service delivery. She has worked with state and local governments on implementing budget reform, and program budgets in the health and education sector. For KfW, Dr. Nayyar-Stone conducted a pre-feasibility study on municipal lending to finance urban infrastructure in Pakistan and India. She has also examined the application of the Paris Declaration tenets (ownership, alignment, harmonization, accountability, and managing for results) on aid effectiveness in the infrastructure sector.

Areas of Expertise: Budgeting and improved public administration (performance and strategic management); monitoring and evaluation; infrastructure finance; data collection and analysis; and baseline assessments.

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