Denise Baer

Denise Baer is a Visiting Scholar Practitioner Fellow in the Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) conducting research on political parties, democracy support, global development, and women and politics.

She previously taught at GSPM and in GW’s Elliott School and Columbian College of Arts and Sciences in the Political Science Department, as well as at Georgetown, Boston and American Universities. Baer serves on the board of the Democracy and Governance TIG for the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and is the Founder and Convenor of the American Political Science Association (APSA) Research Collaborative for Studying Political Party Conventions and Meetings Comparatively, which is planning research around the 2024 Democratic and Republican conventions. She was an APSA Congressional Fellow in the House Democratic Caucus and the Office of former Representative David Price.

Baer is the author or co-author of three books and scholarly articles and is completing work on a book titled Performance Evaluation Methods, Strategies and Tools for Policymaking and Public Management. Most recently, she served as the Founding Director of the Department of Evaluation for the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), part of the National Endowment for Democracy. Baer has provided research, strategic planning, governance, and social science consulting for a variety of federal agencies and nonprofit civil society and party organizations, including international work for USAID, Sida, NDI, IFES and IWPR. She holds a Ph.D. in political science and research methods from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and has also completed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute of Management (IOM) program.