Vanesa Weyrauch is a Southern expert in the link between policy and research, think tanks, networks, and policy influence planning, monitoring and evaluation. She has done extensive consulting work to help policy research institutions and work better understand how they can better influence policy through research, including development of innovative M&E methodologies, several online training courses and workshops, and production of new knowledge in her field, with an emphasis in developing countries. She has worked with international, regional and local organizations, especially in Latin America but has also forged collaborative projects in Asia and Africa. Currently she is the co-founder of Politcs& Ideas , a new think net focused on the study of the relationship between politics and ideas and Associate Researcher at CIPPEC , a leading think tank based in Argentina.