Patrick Simbewe joined IPA as a Senior Field Manager in May 2019 on the Graduation Model Project (University of Dublin, Trinity College), and later managed Digital Credit Project 2019-2020 (University of California, Santa Cruz). Since 2019, he has been the Field Manager for the GiveDirectly Cash Benchmark (University of California, Santa Cruz). Before joining IPA Patrick worked as Assistant Personnel & Research Coordinator at Tsogolo La Thanzi Centre and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree.