Juha Uitto is the former Director of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the Global Environment Facility (2014-2024). He has worked as an evaluator with the GEF and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1999, including as Deputy Director of the UNDP IEO from 2009 to 2014.…
Kathryn Steingraber
Kathryn comes to the IEO from the Development Impact Evaluation unit in the Development Economics Research group of the World Bank. Previously, she worked for the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group where she focused on project, country, and thematic evaluations with an emphasis on…
Kseniya Temnenko
Kseniya Temnenko has more than 15 years of experience in knowledge management and evaluation. As a Knowledge Management Officer at the Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility she works on innovative meso-level evaluation studies that synthesize evidence on priority…
Mariana Calderon Cerbon
Mariana is an evaluation and economic analyst with experience in assessing the relevance and effectiveness of development interventions through quantitative and qualitative methods. Before joining the IEO, Mariana worked for the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group where she conducted…
Mitsuaki Hirai
Mitsuaki Hirai is an Evaluation Officer at the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Independent Evaluation Office. He is a public health professional with over 10 years of experience in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), global health, and monitoring and evaluation. Prior to joining GEF, he…
Fabrizio Felloni
Fabrizio Felloni is Chief Evaluation Officer - Deputy Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF. He was previously Deputy Director at the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD in Rome (2016-2024) and, earlier, a Lead Evaluation Officer in the same office (2010-2016). He was an…
Jeneen Reyes Garcia
Jeneen R. Garcia is an Evaluation Officer at the GEF IEO. She has both coauthored and led evaluations on GEF support for various focal areas, including the cross-cutting themes of multistakeholder partnerships, private sector engagement, environmental and socioeconomic synergies and trade-offs,…