Ruth R. Berg, Ph.D., serves as Vice President of Strategic Growth Initiatives with Futures Group. In this role, Dr. Berg is responsible for the company’s efforts to pursue and penetrate new and emerging markets. Dr. Berg has a strong combination of business development, management, and technical skills that arm her to drive Futures Group’s diversification and support its growth. Dr. Berg brings more than twenty years of professional experience in international health with an emphasis in private sector strategies, policy, and evaluation. She has worked in more than 20 countries spanning Africa, Asia, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. She has received very high marks from colleagues for her leadership skills and strategic vision.

Prior to joining Futures Group in February 2012, Dr. Berg worked with Abt Associates, where she led the establishment of the company’s international private sector health practice and the development of its evaluation business strategy in international health. She served as a Senior Advisor to the USAID-funded Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Project, Co-Director of Abt’s Evaluation Center, and Senior Evaluation Advisor to the DFID-funded Partnership for Transforming Health Systems Phase II Project. Previously, she served as the Project Director for the $95 million SHOPS Project, Project Director for the $60 million USAID-funded Private Sector Partnerships-One Project, Abt’s Indefinite Quantity Contracts Director for the USAID-funded Private Sector Program, and Research Director for the USAID-funded Commercial Market Strategies Project. She also served as an Abt Fellow from 2008 to 2010.

Previously, Dr. Berg worked for seven years at Futures Group as Research Director for the Social Marketing for Change Project, Senior Associate on the Policy Project, Evaluation Specialist on the Evaluation Project, and Country Manager on the OPTIONS II Project.

Dr. Berg holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology and Demography from The University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from The University of California at Davis.