At the intersection of sustainable development and inclusive economic growth lies the promise of prosperity for people and the planet.
ImpaXus works within that nexus, helping partners devise integrated solutions that align economic, social, and environmental priorities.
Drawing on 30 years of experience in more than 25 countries, our team works across disciplines with a people-centered approach to tackle the world’s most pressing development challenges.
LEADERSHIP TEAM
Global development expert, executive, and entrepreneur with 25+ years experience driving inclusive economic growth and environmentally sustainable development in more than 20 countries.
Delila Khaled
Delila is a global development expert and entrepreneur committed to accelerating positive impact in the world. Over the past 25+ years she has worked in more than 20 countries driving socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable economic growth. Delila excels at designing market-driven solutions that align the interests of diverse sector stakeholders – private, public, informal, and civil society. She has successfully designed and managed multi-million dollar programs for USAID, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, and the World Bank across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
Delila has led for-profit and non-profit startups – including the Development Innovations Group and the Center for Global Policy (New Lines Institute) – and, as Impact Partner, helped launch Global Bio Fund, a gender smart investment fund. Drawing on this rich and diverse expertise across the global consulting, foreign policy, and investment domains, Delila founded ImpaXus in 2020.
Delila is committed to advancing thought leadership globally as a Foundry Fellow with the Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Safer End of Engineered Life Champion for Engineering X at the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering. She also serves on several boards including: the Center for Security, Race, and Rights at Rutgers University; the Women of Waste Task Force at the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA); and the Baltimore-Luxor-Alexandria Committee at Sister Cities International.
Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) expert and executive with 27+ years leading high-value, multi-country foreign assistance programs. Specialist in complex MEL and data management sytems, performance evaluation, and organizational capacity building.
Eric Benschoter
Eric Benschoter brings over 27 years of experience in foreign assistance program management, business development, and advanced monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems. As a seasoned senior executive and technical expert, he designs, integrates, and oversees complex data management, MEL implementation, and reporting frameworks that drive impactful development outcomes.
Most recently, Mr. Benschoter served as Chief of Party for the $25 million USAID/Egypt Learning Activity, successfully steering program execution to meet strategic objectives. Before this, he was Managing Director of Technical Services at Q2 Impact, where he provided corporate leadership and technical oversight across multiple high-value federal programs—including USAID Missions in Uganda, Egypt, and Turkmenistan, as well as Washington-based initiatives.
His extensive expertise also encompasses spearheading business growth in priority M&E markets across key U.S. government agencies such as the Departments of Defense, State, Labor, Agriculture, and USAID. Globally, he has led or contributed to performance evaluations in 17 countries, serving as Evaluation Team Leader for major USAID and Department of State assessments. Mr. Benschoter is recognized for his ability to strengthen organizational MEL capacity through tailored training delivered to staff from USAID, the Department of State, USDA, and their private sector partners.
GLOBAL EXPERIENCE
ImpaXus’ portfolio builds on a proven track record of leadership, impact, and collaboration across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
IN THE MEDIA
``Building the Case for Women Waste Entrepreneurs``
The Women-Waste-Climate Nexus featured in MIT’s prestigious Ideas Made to Matter
This article showcases our pioneering study—The Women-Waste-Climate Nexus—which makes the case for investing in women entrepreneurs to advance circular economy solutions. The paper draws on outcomes of a high-level panel and roundtable conducted in partnership with MIT’s Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship, and in-depth research funded by Engineering X.
``Women are the Missing Link to Accelerating Impact``
ImpaXus’ founder profiled by leading sector publication
Waste Management World published an in-depth profile of Delila Khaled, showcasing her 30 years of global development experience and long-standing commitment to promoting the role of women in accelerating circular economy solutions.
THE IMPACT NEXUS APPROACH
At the core of our work is the Impact Nexus—a systems-based approach that identifies and activates the connections where gender equality, environmental sustainability, and inclusive growth reinforce one another.
ImpaXus helps partners move beyond project-level interventions to strengthen the ecosystems that sustain progress over time. This means connecting policy reform with market incentives, linking entrepreneurs with enablers of innovation, and equipping local institutions and leaders with the tools and partnerships they need to drive change from within.
By bridging people, policy, and purpose, ImpaXus helps partners move from siloed interventions to integrated strategies that accelerate locally-led innovation and deliver lasting, scalable impact—building pathways to prosperity for both people and the planet.