Our team members

PIL partner with over twelve years of experience with design, implementation and evaluation of social interventions and policies. After completing her MA in International Development Policy in the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Elma did field work for social enterprises and NGOs in Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Lithuania. She has since transitioned into consulting work, where she continues to support the third and public sectors with learning, organisational, programme and policy development and evaluation. Geographically, her work has centered in and around Europe, Africa and Latin America. Elma is passionate about human rights and works with related thematic areas including migration; art & social nexus; ending violence; inclusion; accountability; environmental integrity and others. Elma is currently working most in the area of migration management, supporting the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) with multiple evaluation and learning assignments.

Besides becoming a mother, starting Policy Impact Lab was Elma’s greatest achievement to date. Both happened within the same half-year period. PIL was born of the need to reinvent herself after motherhood, which came with the realization that she has to live by what she believes in - the world can be a better place, and so can the workplace. 

Since 2017, Elma has facilitated access to meaningful consulting assignments to over 100 researchers, of whom around 10 on a regular basis as the main source of income. With all of their support, Elma has supported several dozen organisations to learn about how their programmes and policies work and how to make them work better. Elma will always be grateful to PIL’s co-founder Andrius Tursa who has since transitioned to another professional journey, but who played a major role in making this project a reality.