Marlowe Popes

Senior Field Manager

Country Portfolio

Marlowe is the Senior Field Manager for the BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative in the Philippines. He served as a Senior Field Manager for BRAC most recently for the Padayon SLP Project with the Department of Social Welfare and Development. He served as the Project Coordinator, the field-based direct liaison to the Department of Labor and Employment, Asian Development Bank, and Innovations for Poverty Action in Manila, during the design and implementation of the DOLE Graduation Project. Marlowe supported the management of BRAC’s technical assistance engagement in the Philippines, including program design, oversight and management, and knowledge management.

Prior to joining BRAC, he worked with the Asian Development Bank for the implementation of the Emergency Assistance and Early Recovery Project for Poor Municipalities Affected by Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) Affected Areas in the Philippines. Marlowe spent most of his early working years working with the Pantawid Pamilya Program – Philippine Conditional Cash Transfer Program as the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration, and went on to obtain a Graduate Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning.