Donika Dimovska joined Results for Development Institute in February 2008. She works on the jointly funded Rockefeller-Gates Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI).  While at R4D, Donika has also worked on the Transforming Health Systems (THS) initiative, the Role of the Private Sector in Health project, and the Kazakhstan Strategic Plan 2030 project with Dennis de Tray. Prior to joining R4D, she worked at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) where she conducted research on democratic developments in the Balkans and the Black Sea region. Ms. Dimovska obtained a M.A. in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in December 2007. She spent the last semester of graduate studies at the International University of Japan (IUJ) in Niigata where she focused on contemporary issues of economic and political governance. In addition, Ms. Dimovska was a Graduate Assistant with the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC) at Syracuse University where she performed a comparative analysis of conflict patterns and the impact of multilateral peacekeeping operations in three West African countries. While pursuing her undergraduate degree, she gained extensive development program experience working with Religions for Peace International in New York, and interning at the Council on Foreign Relations, Action Against Hunger and The Trickle Up Program.