Analytics with heart
At Mettalytics, we craft rigorous economic and social impact cases to attract funding and influence policy.
Founded by Dr. Brad Wong, our work blends the rigor of academia, the pragmatism of consulting, and the compassionate drive of NGOs. The name reflects our approach: metta — loving-kindness that drives our purpose, and analytics — the rigorous evidence that ensures every investment delivers meaningful, measurable impact.
Our story
We live in a world filled with urgent problems. But there’s never enough time, money, or attention to solve them all. To maximize impact, we must focus resources where each dollar creates the most meaningful change. That’s why we specialize in crafting clear, rigorous economic cases that guide decision-makers toward smarter, high-impact investments.
Our founder, Dr. Brad Wong, brings a background that spans academia, management consulting, think tanks, and NGOs. This diverse experience shaped a clear vision for Mettalytics: a consultancy that combines the rigor of academia, the pragmatism of consulting, and the compassionate drive of NGOs.
This vision shaped Mettalytics: Metta means loving kindness in Pali and connotes the idea of alleviating the suffering of all living beings. And metta is most potent when it's backed by analytics: rigorous evidence of what works, what is most cost-effective and what beneficiaries see as most meaningful.
Our humans
Dr. Brad Wong is the founder and president of Mettalytics, a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, and an affiliated researcher at the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health at the University of Bergen, Norway. A specialist in economic evaluation for development and humanitarian projects, he has contributed to hundreds of analyses across sectors including agriculture, education, gender, nutrition, water and sanitation, poverty, trade and global health. He brings rigorous analytical methods and deep practical insight to the challenge of helping organisations use economics to maximise their impact.
Brad has worked with national planning commissions in Malawi and Ghana, governments in Haiti, Timor-Leste, India, and Bangladesh, the UN, and numerous international NGOs. He currently serves as an editor for Disease Control Priorities 4 and has presented at Harvard’s executive education program, Valuing Life and Health. His work has been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of India, South China Morning Post, and Los Angeles Times.
Cyandra Carvalho is a humanitarian policy and strategy specialist with over 15 years of experience shaping crisis-responsive planning, learning, and transition processes across the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, UN agencies, NGOs, and government partners. She has worked in some of the world’s most complex operational environments - ranging from emergency response to long-term systems change - bringing a sharp analytical lens and deep contextual understanding to humanitarian programming. Her expertise lies at the intersection of strategic planning, results-based management, and crisis-informed policy, with particular strengths in anticipatory action, locally-led institutional development, and sector-wide accountability initiatives.
At Mettalytics, Cyandra leads the firm’s humanitarian portfolio, helping clients and partners generate and apply economic and strategic evidence to improve outcomes for crisis-affected populations. She specializes in translating complex evaluation findings and cost-effectiveness insights into narratives that are actionable, compelling, and politically attuned. Whether developing investment cases, designing impact evaluations, or shaping guidance for operational partners, Cyandra’s work is grounded in a commitment to practical use and systems-level change. She also plays a key role in advancing Mettalytics’ approach to humanitarian value-for-money, ensuring it remains both rigorous and responsive to the realities of field-based decision-making.
Bryce is an international and development economist with research experience in a variety of settings. From meta-analyses to randomized controlled trial implementation, his work focuses on international development and public policy. While studying at the University of San Francisco, he conducted an experiment looking at the effect of climate change on pro-sociality in Colombia and began working on an ongoing project assessing the impact of refractive error correction on productivity for Guatemalan coffee harvesters.
He assisted Dr. Brad Wong in a systematic review that demonstrates the viability of eye health investment as a ‘‘best-buy’ in global development as well as several reports and meta-analyses focused on eye health to further strengthen this case. Bryce’s work serves to provide decision makers with solid evidence for strategies to improve quality of life for the most vulnerable individuals.
Ophelia Chatterjee is a feminist gender and SRHR researcher and consultant with a strong interest in intersectionality and climate justice. Her academic background is in Philosophy and Sociology. She has experience facilitating within a range of SRHR and gender-related projects, multi-level evaluations, collaborative platforms, and trainings in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, mostly focused on increasing civic space, gender equality, and the reach and quality of comprehensive sexuality education, in addition to reducing child marriage, teen pregnancy and gender-based violence. She has experience in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method analyses.
Suzi has over a decade of management consulting experience, working across sectors with top-tier organizations on complex business and development problems. At Mettalytics, Suzi brings her strategic and quantitative lens to public policy challenges, having tackled issues as diverse as plastic reduction, food security, nutrition and climate change
