Geeta Batra is Director of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the Global Environment Facility since 2024. She has over 25 years of experience in international development, including 15 years of experience in program evaluation. She joined the World Bank after spending two years at…
Neeraj Negi
Neeraj is a natural resource economist by training and has operational experience of working on natural resource management and rural livelihood issues. He is skilled in research methods, program and policy evaluation, and economic analysis. He has been working with the Evaluation Office since…
Rasec Niembro Urista
Rasec is a Social Development professional with 10 years of experience in program evaluation, project management, and results-based frameworks. In his prior position with the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group, he worked on thematic and country evaluations within the Private Sector…
Silke Heuser
Silke Heuser is an Evaluation Officer at the GEF IEO. She has conducted project-level, thematic, and country evaluations in the areas of environment and climate change in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Before coming to IEO, she served as Advisor to the World Bank's German…
Anupam Anand
Anupam Anand, Senior Evaluation Officer at the GEF IEO, has more than 15 years of combined experience in evaluation, international development, and academia. He uses a blend of innovative mixed-method approaches and tools such as satellite data, GIS, machine learning, computational social…
Anna Birgitta Viggh
Anna Viggh, a Swedish national, is a Senior Evaluation Officer in the Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF and leads evaluative work on various thematic and cross-cutting topics including gender mainstreaming and adaptation to climate change. Anna manages the Office's work for the Least…
Carlo Carugi
Carlo has more than 34 years of experience in environment and development, 16 of which spent in developing countries, both on long term (Niger, Botswana, Vietnam and Cameroun) and short term assignments in all the GEF geographic regions around the world. Carlo's first involvement in evaluation…
Eki Ramadhan
Eki Ramadhan is an Evaluation Analyst at the GEF IEO. Prior to this role, Eki cultivated extensive international development experience, contributing to projects on topics including natural resource governance, agriculture, social protection, and community-driven development at the International…
Francisco Grahammer
Francisco Grahammer, peruvian national with over 15 years of combined experience in Communications, Business Management and Systems Engineering solutions. He joined the GEF Independent Evaluation office in 2010. Francisco holds two degrees; Computer Science from San Diego State University in the…
Juan Jose Portillo
Juan joined the GEF in 2002. He holds a Masters in Business Administration from Universidad Del Zulia in Venezuela and a Masters in Public Policy from American University in the United States.
Prior to joining the GEF, Juan worked at the International Bank for Reconstruction and…