Reza is an experienced policy analyst with a strong focus on access to justice, fundamental rights, and governance, and a particular interest in evaluation methodologies. In thirty years of career, Reza has provided advice to a large number of government agencies in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America and to international organisations such as the OECD, the World Bank, the IMF and UN agencies. He has led more than thirty evaluations and reviews of organisations and programmes in the government and NGO sectors.

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An economist by background with specialisation in decision sciences, Reza has extensively worked in the areas of decision analysis, risk assessment and theory-based evaluations. He has published multiple reports in which theories of change underpinning interventions are elicited from policy documents and interviews of officials and assessed on the basis of scientific evidence. He has often collaborated with scientists and engineers inside multidisciplinary teams and is regularly consulted by regulatory bodies on issues related to risk and public policy.

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In addition to his work at Future Horizons, Reza is currently an associated researcher with the Climate Economics Chair of Université Paris Dauphine (France) and a member of the Expert Committee advising the French government on the evaluation of public projects and programmes.