Derek Ozkal

Derek Ozkal is a senior research, learning, and evaluation officer for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where he operationalizes evaluation and learning-related initiatives and knowledge generation by emphasizing efforts to capture, explain, and disseminate the Foundation’s legacy of impact, with particular attention to known, large initiatives.

Prior to joining the Kauffman Foundation, Ozkal was the research director for the Kansas City Business Journal, where his duties included survey design, data gathering, and analysis in support of weekly lists of local industries and topics, writing articles on local economic topics, and various research tasks in support of editorial content.

Ozkal earned an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Truman State University.