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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…

Jeneen R. Garcia serves as a Senior Evaluation Officer at the GEF IEO, where she leads evaluations that span diverse focal areas and cross-cutting themes. Her work has included assessing multistakeholder partnerships, private sector engagement, environmental and socioeconomic synergies and trade…

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…

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 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 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 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 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…

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…