Sunday, a Nigerian, has more than 18 years of experience in environmental science and policy, with the last 15 focused on bridging the science-policy gap, identifying strategic issues, opportunities, and risks to inform organizational direction, and providing policy advice to decision-makers. He was appointed as the new Secretary of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the GEF as of 1 October 2023. Since 2017, Sunday has served as a Program Officer within the STAP Secretariat, covering climate change and chemicals and waste and supporting GEF Integrated Programs. During that time, he has effectively mobilized external expertise to support the GEF, including working with leading organizations on various cross-cutting topics. He is STAP lead on circular economy, plastics, and novel entities and technologies. Before joining STAP, Sunday worked with UNEP's Climate & Clean Air Coalition, where he managed and coordinated its Scientific Advisory Panel, including its interaction with partners (countries, IGOs, NGOs, CSOs, & private sector actors). He also represented the Coalition at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and is a reviewer of IPCC reports and Ozone Assessments. He also worked at UNEP's Chief Scientist Office from 2011 to 2015, where he was responsible for the day-to-day functioning of the office and coordination of its strategic engagement with UNEP's Executive Office, divisions, and external experts/organizations. In this role, he co-led the UNEP Foresight Process on Emerging Environmental Issues and the UNEP/UN DESA Foresight Process on Emerging Issues for Small Island Developing States. He also served as a leading member of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report team and a co-author and editor of UNEP reports on topics such as food security, short-lived climate pollutants, near-term climate change, and the integration of the environment into the SDGs.

Ali Raza Rizvi has over 30 years of leadership and management experience in the environment and development sectors. His work has given him the opportunity to work in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas with international and national development partners, private sector, media, and academia. In his current position as Head Climate Change at IUCN, he provides vision, strategic direction and the operational guidance for the development and implementation of IUCN’s global work on climate change that includes climate-nature nexus.

Martin Noltze is senior evaluator and team manager at the Competence Center for Evaluation Methodologies at the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval). He has over 15 years of experience in development evaluation with a focus of evaluations in the context of climate change, environment and sustainability. At the Competence Center, Martin works on the advancement of evaluation standards and methods, including evaluation quality assessments, different forms of evidence syntheses, rigorous impact evaluations and theory-based evaluation designs.

Paul brings more than two decades of experience in natural resource management to his role as Team Lead of all the CIF's nature solutions programs. They include Nature, People and Climate Investment Program (NPC), and the Forest Investment Program (FIP). Previously, in his work at the Global Environment Facility, Paul led the strategic design and rollout of its USD346-million Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Impact Program. Its aims are to reduce deforestation, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and diminish biodiversity loss in 27 countries. He also spent 15 years in Southeast Asia, leading field projects that were focused on forestry, biodiversity conservation, and climate change. Paul holds a Master of Arts degree in International Affairs from George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Since retiring from the International Finance Corporation in December 2013, Alan has been doing a variety of work related to climate finance and policy for diverse clients, most recently several projects related to sustainable cooling including a chapter on finance for the Global Cooling Stocktake released by UNEP at COP28. He authored a chapter in "Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications," and regularly blogs on topics related to climate change finance and policy. Other post-retirement projects include: a UNDP project to improve weather and climate information services in 11 African LDCs including a UNDP publication: A New Vision for Weather and Climate Information Services for Africa; with Climate Finance Advisors, a report on financing adaptation for the Commission on Adaptation; through Crown Agents, working with US AID to promote increased private friendly investment in developing countries; a paper on coordinating the Montreal Protocol HFC phasedown with climate finance for energy efficiency for NRDC; with Stacy Swann, preparing six articles on climate risk, insurance, and development for the IFC (all available online) and a law review article, Climate Change and the Financial Sector: Risk and Opportunity; helping organize two days of climate change programs for a World Bank conference, Law, Justice and Development Week 2016. He continues to lecture on energy and climate change issues including courses at the Universities of MIchigan (environment and natural resources), Maryland (public policy), and American (business).

Erik Hedblom is a Senior Measurement and Evaluation Officer for Partnerships & Programs at Vulcan (Paul G. Allen Family Foundation). Erik is a sector leader with 18+ years of experience in learning, program evaluation, strategic planning, International development and humanitarian affairs, and change management in the philanthropic and non-profit development sector. His specialties include strategic philanthropy, learning, evaluation & applied research, knowledge management, evidence informed decision-making.

Oscar A. Garcia has more than 25 years of experience in leading areas of strategic planning, evaluation, learning and results-based management. He is currently the Chief Impact Officer for the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP). Prior to joining GEAPP, Oscar served as Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). He holds an MSc in Organizational Change Management, New School University, an MBA from the Bolivian Catholic University in association with the Harvard Institute for International Development.

Richard is the chief adaptive management and evaluation officer and oversees a team dedicated to supporting the foundation's four grantmaking programs, helping our staff and grantees use adaptive management to improve outcomes and results. Richard came to the foundation in 2016 from Foundations of Success, a small nonprofit organization he co-founded. Foundations of Success is dedicated to improving the practice of conservation and development through enhanced monitoring, evaluation, learning, and collaboration. Prior to co-founding Foundations of Success, he was the director of the Analysis and Adaptive Management Program and the Latin America and Caribbean Program at the Biodiversity Support Program in Washington, DC. Before the Biodiversity Support Program, Richard worked internationally as an assistant director of a biosphere reserve, founder and director of two community-based health and development organizations, field analyst for a food security information system, and evaluator of post-disaster interventions. Richard holds a Ph.D. in epidemiology and an M.P.H. in international public health from Tulane University. He also holds a bachelor's in Latin American studies from Northwestern University.

Baljit Wadhwa is leader in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL). She recently founded her firm, Enviro-Eval, supporting MEL for Sustainable Finance. Her current clients include the World Bank, the Green Climate Fund and IUCN. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Global Warming Mitigation Project, a non-profit, advancing solutions for decarbonization. She was previously Senior Operations Officer in the Climate Change Group in the World Bank's Vice Presidency for Sustainable Development, where she led teams supporting the World Bank's Climate and Disaster Risk Screening, Climate Indicators commitments and climate action reporting. Ms. Wadhwa has also worked with the Global Environment Facility Independent Evaluation Office as a Senior Evaluation Officer and with the International Finance Corporation on result measurement for sustainable business advisory services. She holds a Master's in Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo, Canada, is a LEED Accredited Professional and holds memberships with the European, Canadian and American evaluation associations.

Andrea is an architect with 10-year experience in sustainable infrastructure, green building standards, and project development. She has a master’s degree in Sustainable Infrastructure from the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC) and possesses recognized international certifications in sustainability and climate change issues such as: EDGE Expert (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies) by the International Finance Corporation (IFC)and as Climate Reality Leader for Latin America by Vice President Al Gore. She has a degree in Complex Project Management by the University of Cambridge. As an evaluation analyst in CABEI, she has carried out two reviews of the environmental and social standards of the Bank’s portfolio in a sampling of 62 initiatives for more than US$ 5,900 million for public and private sectors (road, mobility, housing, education, hospitals, health and COVID-19 responses, water and sanitation, renewable energy, agriculture, and financial institutions, among others) in 11 countries members of CABEI. She is a professor in the master’s degree for Renewable Energy Management at the Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana (UNITEC) in Honduras.

Jakub is the Chief of Independent Evaluation at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). Previously, he served as the Head of Ethics and Accountability at UNIDO, as Internal Auditor at the International Atomic Energy Agency, and held various oversight roles at Citibank in London, Lisbon, and Warsaw, including Director of Franchise Governance Internal Audit for Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
He holds a Master of Law degree and a diploma in Banking and Finance from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS). He earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Bradford (UK) and Koźminski University (Warsaw, Poland). He completed the Executive Management Programme at the United Nations System Staff College in Torino, Italy. Jakub is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. programme in International Business at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
He is a Chartered Internal Auditor (CMIIA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA).

Serdar Bayryyev is a senior evaluation officer with FAO Office of Evaluation. He is an evaluation expert with more than 20 years of experience in development evaluation, results-based management, crisis prevention and recovery, governance and public sector management. Before joining FAO, he worked for UNDP, UNFPA and the World Bank Group. He has led complex evaluations of multi-sectoral interventions promoting climate action and sustainable development approaches, evaluations of conflict prevention, peacebuilding and crisis recovery interventions, and assessments of the UN efforts in partnering with non-state actors. He has been involved in formulation of the evaluation policies, design of the evaluation quality assurance systems and strategies for strengthening country-level evaluation capacities. He holds a masters' degree in international economics from the Ukrainian Institute of International Relations and International Law.

Stephen Hutton is an evaluator with expertise on environment and climate change topics, and is the coordinator for IEG's work stream on climate change and environmental sustainability. Stephen has conducted evaluations of World Bank activities in environment and environment-adjacent sectors since 2009, including major evaluations on enabling environment for climate action, disaster risk reduction, outcome orientation and the country level evaluation system, global convening power, environmental sustainability, results and performance of the World Bank Group, pollution abatement, and others; other evaluations on , climate change monitoring and evaluation, environmental and social risk management in policy lending, environmental policy lending and pandemic preparedness, and a wide range of field and desk-based project evaluations.

Avril Benchimol is leading the blended finance initiative at the GEF. She has seventeen years of experience in capital markets and structured finance both in multilateral institutions and investment banking. At the GEF, she manages a blended finance portfolio of more than US$ 313 million in active projects. During her eight years of work at the Inter-American Development Bank, she designed and executed capital markets and structured finance transactions supporting SDGs. She also led a green microfinance facility in 11 countries that facilitated microfinance clients' mitigation and adaptation initiatives. While at the GEF, the blended finance portfolio has grown to include new asset classes such as the Rhino Bond, Debt for Nature debt restructuring, de-risking green hydrogen facility or the securitization of biodiversity lending portfolio in the Amazon. Prior to joining the IDB Group, she spent six years working in investment banking for Morgan Stanley and BNP Paribas in London, Madrid, and Brussels. Her main areas of expertise included capital markets and structured equity derivatives. In 2011, she received her Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, where she graduated with honors. Avril is originally from Spain and currently lives in Washington, DC.

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 including beneficiary voice in evaluations. Kate also worked with the Independent Evaluation Department at the Asian Development Bank and as a Lead Researcher for the Climate and Land Use Alliance. Her sector background includes natural resource management and she has a special interest in participatory development approaches. She holds a Master's in International Development Policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.

Dulmina Chamathkara is a monitoring and evaluation professional, currently serving as the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Sri Lanka representation. Dulmina earned his degree in Environmental Management from University of Sri Jayewardenepura and his commitment to advancing his expertise led him to obtain a Post Graduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation, also from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Chamathkara's passion for evaluation and his dedication to professionalize evaluation in the region are evident in his role as the co-founder and former co-leader of EvalYouth Asia Chapter and EvalYouth Sri Lanka. Through these roles, he has contributed to nurturing the next generation of evaluators and fostering collaboration within the field. As an evaluator and researcher, Chamathkara excels in qualitative studies, where his analytical skills and attention to detail shine. He has vast experience in field level M&E and research operations working with different communities in Sri Lanka including indigenous communities.

Frank serves as the Head of the Programme Resources and Oversight Unit, located in the Executive Office of the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions. The Unit is responsible for resource mobilization, donor relations and communication, programme implementation oversight, as well as financial mechanisms and resources related to the implementation of the three conventions. Frank also serves as the focal point for the Financial Mechanism of the Stockholm Convention, the Global Environment Facility, and the Special Programme to support institutional strengthening at the national level in the chemical and waste cluster. He is a German national and holds a University degree in Chemistry, an advanced University Degree in Economics, and a PhD on Ethics in Chemistry. Prior to joining the Secretariat (in 2009), Frank worked for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna and the Chemicals Branch of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Dr. Bowman, PhD, is a traditional Lunaape/Mohican woman in service to others at the intersection of truth, spirituality, traditional knowledge, sovereignty, governance, and evaluation. She’s been an active Indigenous community member for 40 years and an evaluator for over two decades. She is president of the award-winning Bowman Performance Consulting and an Associate Scientist/Evaluator at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Bowman supports projects advancing Indigenous scholarship with Tribal/non-Tribal governments and philanthropic, non-profit, and organizations internationally. She is recognized in several associations including the American Evaluation Association, Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment, Internationally, she is a member of the Canadian Evaluation Society, leadership within EvalIndigenous, Co-creator of “Roots and Relations”, Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. Finally, Dr. Bowman is the Co-editor for the Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation, a special global issue with Dr. Bagele Chilisa.

Credentialed Evaluator (CE), Serge Eric is the Co-Chair of EvalIndigenous, Vice-President of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), Co-Chair of the Coordination Committee of EvalPartners, Former President of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA), CEO of the Centre for Evaluation and Development (CAED), Member of various evaluation networks/associations such as AEN, CES, and Cameroon Development Evaluation Association (CaDEA). He has 20+ years' of experience in research and evaluation with Universities (University of Quebec in Montreal, University of Ottawa, Humbolt University in Berlin, Constantine University in Algeria, Institute for Environmental Sciences in Cameroon, United Arab Emirates University in Al Ain), government entities such as Global Affairs Canada, UN agencies, USAID, Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), African Development Bank (AfDB), WorldBank and EU, CBOs and NGOs. As International Evaluation Specialist, he led the design and implementation of over 150 country research initiatives and evaluations worldwide. He has worked in Africa; Europe; North, Central & Latin America; Middle-East; and Asia. He wrote two books and co-authored five books, training materials, +150 reports and articles. He led capacity development trainings in environmental economics, monitoring and evaluation, agricultural research, research methodology and statistics, and related topics for various audiences and organizations worldwide.

Sonal has over 30 years' experience in strategic planning, program design, capacity building, mentoring and evaluation. Sonal's interests relate to how rights, inclusion, local wisdom and gender are addressed across complex human and natural ecosystems. She has co-designed evaluation principles and adapted evaluation approaches that address participation, transformation, decolonisation and feminist thought that challenge evaluation thinking and practice. She is based in India.

Ms Svetlana Negroustoueva leads Independent Evaluation Function at CGIAR, which deliver science and innovation that advance the transformation of food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis. Svetlana has 20+ years of experience working with the World Bank (GEF and CIFs), the African Development Bank (link), several UN agencies, NGOs, and bilateral agencies (USG and DFID). She has worked on M&E activities at the intersection of R4D, sustainable landscapes, energy, health, food security, gender and social inclusion, and has been an active member of evaluation associations (AEA, EES). At CGIAR, she lead the development of the evaluation guidelines on evaluating Quality of Science, which are currently being applied to the evaluations of three science groups. She represents CGIAR on a Steering Committee of EvalFoward. Svetlana has a passion and expertise is in the domain of gender and evaluation; she was a co-chair of EvalGender+, the global partnership to promote the demand, supply and use of Equity Focused and Gender Responsive Evaluations.

Randika De Mel is currently the manager of Asia Pacific Evaluation Association (APEA) working on managing all APEA programmes including implementation of the Asia Pacific Regional strategy in a systematic manner to advance evaluation culture in the region. He is a former Board Member of Sri Lanka Evaluation Association and Co-Founder of EvalYouth Sri Lanka and EvalYouth Asia; and he has worked in Africa, Asia and Americas on evaluation and social research projects. His research interests are rural livelihoods, gender, Indigenous people, agriculture, and education; works with public sector, NGOs, and academia. Randika's expertise are in quantitative and qualitative research methods, participatory evaluation methods, ripple effect mapping, agricultural value chains, project management, stakeholder engagement, survey development and administration, intercultural evaluation, and evaluation capacity building.

Monika Weber-Fahr is a member of the Adjunct Faculty at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and advises international organisations, multi-stakeholder partnerships and NGOs, businesses and governments on innovative approaches to network management, cooperation and result orientation. Until 2020, Monika served as CEO and Executive Secretary of the Global Water Partnership (GWP), following an assignment as COO at Sustainable Energy for All. For over 20 years, Monika worked with the World Bank Group, including as Chief Knowledge Officer at the Independent Evaluation Group and as Director for Knowledge, Learning and Results at the Sustainable Development Vice Presidency. For the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Monika built and led the Global Business Line for Sustainable Business Advisory. Monika serves as a member of the Board of the Austrian Development Bank (OeEB), of the Vienna Climate Lab Advisory Council, of the Deltares International Advisory Council, and of the Global Council of the Online Educa Berlin (OEB). She is a beekpeer and lives in Vienna/Austria with her family.

Dr. Christine Wörlen is a member of the Technical Evaluation Reference Group of the Adaptation Fund (AF-TERG) and an internationally renowned expert in the area of climate change evaluation. She is also the founder of Arepo, a Germany-based climate change advisory company. International activities brought her to all regions of the world, such as China, Thailand, India, South Africa, West Africa, USA, Canada and Mexico. As a Programme Manager at the Global Environment Facility in the period 2002 - 2007, she was responsible for renewable energy and new low-GHG emitting energy technologies and approved grants of more than $100 million annually for projects in developing countries and countries in transition. She has worked on evaluations and evaluation methodologies consistently since 2009, for numerous intergovernmental agencies that are working in climate change, such as the GEF, GCF, and several bilateral donors. A seminal evaluation was the strategic evaluation on ecosystems-based adaptation for the German IKI.

Dr. Vine is currently an Affiliate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where, as a Staff Scientist, he was involved in the evaluation of energy efficiency programs and policies for over 36 years. Dr. Vine contributed to the development of evaluation protocols in California and for the US Department of Energy. He was on the Board and the Planning Committee of the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference, as well as the International Energy Policy and Program Evaluation Conference. Dr. Vine has received numerous awards for his professional work, and in 2007, as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he received the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Vine has a BS in Environmental Studies from Middlebury College, and a MS and Ph.D. in Ecology from UC Davis. Along with a group of committed evaluation professionals around the world, Dr. Vine is currently working on the creation of an evaluation community in Asia.

Prashanth is an Evaluation Specialist with more than over 11 years of evaluation and development experience in private sector, government, and UN. Before IEU, Prashanth worked with the Independent Office of Evaluation of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) as an evaluation officer. He has led, co-led and supported numerous corporate evaluations, thematic evaluations, evaluation synthesis, country portfolio evaluations and project evaluations. His evaluation experience includes countries in Middle East and North Africa, East and Southern Africa and Asia and Pacific region. In GCF, he has led evaluations on GCF's Direct Access Modality and GCF's Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme and is currently leading the Independent Evaluation of GCF's Investments in Latin America and Caribbean.

Tomasz (Tom) Bartos - has been with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London for more than 25 years, first as a Senior Banker specializing in infrastructure and property sectors. He led more than 20 infrastructure transactions, among others the first PPP in the water sector in Russia. While with the property team, Tom was involved in the financing of several landmark commercial property development projects. Since 2010 Tom has been working as a Senior Evaluation Manager, concentrating on the assessment of the implementation of the Bank's sectoral strategies, policies and strategic initiatives, such as Local Capital Markets, Delegated Authority, Renewable Energy, Agribusiness, Integration or Hydrocarbons. Prior to joining EBRD, Tom worked at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in Washington D.C. on infrastructure projects in Latin America, as well as at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). He holds MBA and the Graduate Diploma in International Development from the University of Ottawa, Canada and the Master in Global Economics from the University of Gdansk, Poland.

Deepa manages IFC's Corporate Impact Reporting and Evaluation team. In this role, she leads several aspects of IFC's reporting on development results, including the overall development and implementation of the Results Measurement architecture ex-ante and ex-post for Investment and Advisory including AIMM, supporting the teams in IFC working on assessing sustainability impacts, coordinating IFC's impact evaluation program, and leading IFC's engagements with MDBs and other DFI partners on results measurement. Deepa has previously managed the Development Impact team covering IFC Manufacturing, Agribusiness, and Services. Her other experience includes working in IBRD's Financial and Private Sector Development department and at the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group.

30+ years of experience in international and national environmental policy and law, with emphasis on climate change, biodiversity, waste management, development, and finance. Since 2021, he is Principal at 4S Sustainable Solutions, a consultancy, and pro bono President of the LRF Foundation and climate finance Ambassador for Transparency International. From 2010-2020, he served as Head of International Climate and Biodiversity Finance at the Swiss Federal Office for the environment. Main activities comprised i.a.: Swiss delegation to several UNFCCC and CBD COPs; member OECD and G20 working groups on climate finance; GEF Council member representing the constituency of Azerbaijan, the Central Asian countries and Switzerland; GCF Board Member (including as Chair of the Ethics and Audit Committee and Co-Chair of the Private Sector Advisory Group); Co-Chair of the UNFCCC Standing Committee on Finance; Bureau Member of the CBD. Previous functions: Senior Environment Officer at the World Bank, and lawyer at an NGO. He holds a doctorate degree from University of Basel's Law School and a degree in spatial planning from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH).

Indran A. Naidoo is the Director of the Independent Office of Evaluation at IFAD. He brings vast global experience into the role having served as the Director of the Independent Evaluation (IEO) of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), where he led the transformation and expansion of the office during his 8 year term. Fundamental transformation milestones included entrenching independence, establishing a budget target through a new evaluation policy, new polices, advancing staff professionalization, diversifying evaluation products, dedicated IEO website, and achieving five-fold expansion of coverage and evaluation efficiency. The National Evaluation Capacity (NEC) series grew under his leadership to become the largest United Nations evaluation capacity building event by country participation, offering training and forums for thought leadership with partners over the period, which saw major co-hosting with government and evaluation partners and networks in South Africa, Brazil, Thailand, Turkey and Egypt. Indran has emphasized the importance of evaluation for good governance, transparency, accountability and learning, and has been active in evaluation networks of the United Nations, as a UNEG Vice-Chair, and former Board member of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), and South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA). He services as academic advisor and reviewer for evaluation courses and journals, and has published extensively.

Mike Spilsbury is the Director of the Evaluation Office of the UN Environment Programme and has more than 25 years professional evaluation experience in international organizations. He joined UN Environment in 2005 as a GEF Evaluation Officer and has performed various roles in the Evaluation Office, serving as its head since 2013. He is active in the United Nations Evaluation Group as is Chair of its Peer Review Working Group. He has completed reviews of the evaluation functions of UNICEF and UNODC and the Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF.Prior to joining UN Environment, he worked as an international research scientist for the Center for International Forestry Research based in Bogor, Indonesia (1995-2005). He joined CIFOR shortly after its creation was responsible for impact assessment, evaluation of research and strategic planning. He has an academic background in forest management and forest ecology. He holds both Masters and Doctoral degrees from Oxford University and Bachelor of Science from York University, UK. He has authored more than 40 publications.

Neha leads the Evaluation and Learning (E&L) Initiative of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF). The E&L Initiative is at the forefront of making CIF's learning laboratory mandate a reality through learning that is evidence-based, timely, and relevant. Neha has over fifteen years of experience in climate, environment, and economic and social development, with deep expertise on evaluation methods, results measurements, and learning. In the past, Neha worked at the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank on monitoring and evaluation capacity building. She has also worked on evaluative research and program design with organizations, including the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and India Infrastructure Publishing. Neha holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and a second Master's degree in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Evaluation-Expert and Political Scientist, PhD at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Evaluation expert with more than 20 years experience in design and implementation of evaluations in the field of development cooperation; Sven Harten has lived and worked for 15 years in countries of the Global South, where he was mainly active as an evaluator and project manager, with M&E missions in more than 50 countries; Full-time employment as an employee at the World Bank, the European Commission, among others, as well as an independent consultant.

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 Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF). From 2011 - 2015, she was the team leader for Thematic Evaluations which included evaluations on gender, focal area strategies, and enabling activities. She has also lead country-level evaluations in Syria, Moldova, Nicaragua and El Salvador, and has worked on evaluations of GEF's catalytic role and capacity development. Anna has more than 25 years of development and environment experience with the GEF, UNDP, the World Bank and several NGOs.

Anna holds a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and a Master of Arts in International Affairs from George Washington University.

Dr. Christine Wörlen is a member of the Technical Evaluation Reference Group of the Adaptation Fund (AF-TERG) and an internationally renowned expert in the area of climate change evaluation. She is also the founder of Arepo, a Germany-based climate change advisory company. International activities brought her to all regions of the world, such as China, Thailand, India, South Africa, West Africa, USA, Canada and Mexico. As a Programme Manager at the Global Environment Facility in the period 2002 - 2007, she was responsible for renewable energy and new low-GHG emitting energy technologies and approved grants of more than $100 million annually for projects in developing countries and countries in transition. She has worked on evaluations and evaluation methodologies consistently since 2009, for numerous intergovernmental agencies that are working in climate change, such as the GEF, GCF, and several bilateral donors. A seminal evaluation was the strategic evaluation on ecosystems-based adaptation for the German IKI.

Garrett has been with the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Independent Evaluation Department since 2015 and leads evaluations of ADB's climate change, environment, agriculture, water and urban operations. He has been based in Asia since 2008 working with several development organizations. Prior to that he was with the Irish Environmental Protection Agency and holds an honors degree in environmental sciences and PhD in hydrogeology from Trinity College Dublin.

Lauren Kelly oversees the thematic evaluations for the Sustainable Development and Infrastructure Global Practices of the World Bank. With over twenty years of international evaluation experience, Ms. Kelly has led multiple influential evaluations and managed several Board level engagements that have deepened development impact and contributed to evidence based decision and policy making within the World Bank Group. She is currently leading IEG's evaluations of the World Bank's Engagement in Situations of Conflict and the Natural Resource Degradation and Human Vulnerability Nexus. With a background in conflict management, she has also made significant contributions in the field of natural resources, land use, and conflict and has worked extensively on pastoral and farmer relations in Africa.

Stephen Hutton is an evaluator with expertise on environment and climate change topics, and is the coordinator for IEG's work stream on climate change and environmental sustainability. Stephen has conducted evaluations of World Bank activities in environment and environment-adjacent sectors since 2009, including major evaluations on enabling environment for climate action, disaster risk reduction, outcome orientation and the country level evaluation system, global convening power, environmental sustainability, results and performance of the World Bank Group, pollution abatement, and others; other evaluations on , climate change monitoring and evaluation, environmental and social risk management in policy lending, environmental policy lending and pandemic preparedness, and a wide range of field and desk-based project evaluations.

Stefano heads the Monitoring Evaluation and Learning department at IIED. He is an evaluation specialist, former council member of the UK Evaluation Society, former advocacy lead of EVALSDGs, editor of the briefing series Effective evaluation for the SDGs, lead author of the guidebook Evaluation to connect national priorities, a guide for commissioners and managers, and co-author of the practical guide: From what works to what will work. Integrating climate risks into sustainable development evaluation Stefano has led, managed and contributed to evaluations for the GEF-IEO, DFID, Comic Relief, SIDA, Irish Aid, DANIDA, the Foreign Commonwealth Office, and the Department for Business, Energy & Industry Strategy (BEIS). As a peer reviewer and advisor, he has provided advice to the journal Evaluation of the European Evaluation Society (EES), the Commonwealth Secretariat, BEIS, the Humanitarian Leadership Academy, MOPAN, and the Prime Minister's Office of Finland. He has set up monitoring and evaluation systems with a strong focus on learning at Search for Common Ground, Comic Relief and IIED. His most recent work focuses on integrating different and uncertain climate futures into evaluations to achieve better planning for sustainable development.

Maria Fernanda joined the office of Evaluation and Oversight in 2016. Prior to joining OVE, Maria Fernanda was a Research Fellow in the Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness (SPD) of the Inter-American Development Bank since August 2013. Before that, she worked as an advisor in the sector policy division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Colombia, and the antitrust division of the Colombian Trade Commission. Her interest focuses on productive sectors, in particular topics related to cooperatives, technology adoption, food security and productivity. She recently led the Independet Country Program Review of Peru in July 2022, and the PCRs and XSRs review process and report in 2020. Maria Fernanda holds a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Weronika Felcis is vice-President and founding Member of the International Evaluation Academy. She served two terms as Secretary of the IOCE Executive Committee, she served on the Eval-Partners Executive Committee and is a past Board member of the European Evaluation Society. Weronika holds an MA in Sociology and is a graduate of Interdisciplinary Studies “Society Environment Technology” at the Jagiellonian University. She was an exchange student at Warwick University in Social Research in 2008/2009 and a scholarship recipient of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation in the Centre for Social Innovation and Research “Shipyard”. In 2014, she joined the Polish Evaluation Society of which she later became President. She was a Program Director of the first Polish Evaluation Congress which brought together evaluations from different sectors and fields. She is devoted to building networks and enabling the evaluation environment in Europe, especially in the CEE region. She coordinated the Network of Evaluation Societies in Europe (NESE) in 2016-2018. Realizing the pressures of living in the Anthropocene and 6th Mass extinction era, she introduces the theme of system thinking and regenerative living into her evaluation advocacy and lives in an intentional community based on permaculture principles she co-developed in Latvia.

Fellow and former President of Canadian Evaluation Society and recipient of the Society's award for Contribution to Evaluation in Canada with over thirty-five years conducting evaluations in a wide range of natural resource and human settings now focusing on sustainability and climate. Dr. Rowe has published extensively on developing a focus and capacity for evaluating sustainability, led the Canadian Evaluation Society assessment of a sustainability-ready evaluation capacity, is a founding member of Footprint established on the premise that all evaluations should include consideration of environmental sustainability. He has also developed a new approach for evaluating impacts (Rapid Impact Evaluation), for use-seeking assessments and for assessing net environmental impacts of an intervention. Andy served on the initial Technical Evaluation Reference Group of the Adaptation Fund. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Dr. Jane Davidson is an internationally recognized evaluation specialist, best known for developing evaluation rubrics as a methodology for drawing conclusions about quality and value. She has also made significant contributions in the areas of causal inference for qualitative and mixed methods, and in synthesis methodologies for evaluation. Jane is former Associate Director of the internationally recognized Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, where she launched and directed the world's first fully Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation. She was the 2019 recipient of the American Evaluation Association's prestigious Paul F. Lazarsfeld Evaluation Theory Award.

Mexican evaluator, she has conducted evaluations within the Performance Evaluation System of federal and subnational programmes. Experience in prospective (design) and implementation (process) evaluations with emphasis on two areas of economic and social infrastructure and evaluation of social programmes, with participatory methodologies.

Kassem El Saddik is a Learning and Evaluation Advisor. With more than 20 years of experience, Kassem has led various evaluations of complex development and humanitarian programs, particularly in conflict-affected and fragile states. He is credited for being at the forefront of global evaluation networks promoting the evaluation of the 2030 Agenda. Kassem is a founding member of EVALSDGs, EVALMENA, served on board of several Evaluation Reference Groups (SDG 5 Evaluation Synthesis) and ALNAP Advisory Group. He has co-authored series of Policy Briefs and a guidebook on evaluating the SDGs, led EvalPartner's flagship programs granting VOPEs to institutionalize national evaluation capacities. Kassem is currently coordinating EvalPartners' Global Forum for Evaluation (GEF) 2024.

Sonal has over 30 years' experience in strategic planning, program design, capacity building, mentoring and evaluation. Sonal's interests relate to how rights, inclusion, local wisdom and gender are addressed across complex human and natural ecosystems. She has co-designed evaluation principles and adapted evaluation approaches that address participation, transformation, decolonisation and feminist thought that challenge evaluation thinking and practice. She is based in India.

Evaluation-Expert and Political Scientist, PhD at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Evaluation expert with more than 20 years experience in design and implementation of evaluations in the field of development cooperation; Sven Harten has lived and worked for 15 years in countries of the Global South, where he was mainly active as an evaluator and project manager, with M&E missions in more than 50 countries; Full-time employment as an employee at the World Bank, the European Commission, among others, as well as an independent consultant.

Michell is an Impact Evaluation Specialist at the IEU. Prior to the IEU, Michell worked on various impact evaluation projects in the fields of agriculture and health with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Over the past nine years, she has primarily worked on designing and implementing household surveys and analyzing survey data for development projects. Michell holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations/Economics from Wellesley College and Ph.D. in Development Policy from KDI School.

Jessica Kyle is a Director at the ICF, a global consulting and technology services company. She is a development evaluation professional with nearly 20 years of experience specializing in climate finance and environment programs and programmatic modalities. She is an experienced manager of complex assignments and global teams, having led more than a dozen multi-country evaluations of programs and funds operating in least developed and emerging economy countries. Jessica has over a decade of experience working with dedicated climate funds, including the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Climate Investment Funds (CIF), and Green Climate Fund (GCF).

Stephen Porter is a Senior Evaluation Officer at the IEG, he is an experienced Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning practitioner with seventeen years of experience in improving performance in academia, multilaterals, government, and non-profits. He holds an MPhil in Public Policy from the University of Cape Town, a Doctorate focused onInternational Development Evaluation from University of East Anglia and has published nine peer reviews articles on evaluation.

Gabriel is a natural resources management professional focusing on climate change and watershed management. Currently he works at the World Bank Water Global Practice, ensuring climate change considerations are integrated into its projects. Gabriel spent almost four years at the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) where he led thematic evaluations of GEF interventions, including of GEF's work in artisanal and small-scale gold mining, climate adaptation and resilience and water security. He also has a keen interest in geospatial analysis of remote sensing, a method he integrated into his evaluations. He was also a climate change specialist for five years at Winrock International, focusing on climate change mitigation results based-payments programs in the agriculture, forestry and other land use sector and ecosystem services accounting using spatial analysis. He has a master's degree in Watershed Hydrology from the University of Arizona where he used geospatial watershed models to assist rapid response to flood events. Before his master's studies, Gabriel served as a Peace Corps volunteer living in a cloud forest in Honduras for two and a half years, where he first became passionate about the connections between people and their land.

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, scaling-up of impacts and behavior change. Since joining the GEF IEO, she has dedicated herself to piloting innovative methodologies that bridge qualitative and quantitative approaches, and that integrate the disciplines of natural sciences, social sciences, and communications with the field of evaluation. She has helped develop conceptual frameworks and tools for assessing impact in complex adaptive systems, among which is the now-mainstreamed GEF Theory of Change Framework.

Her previous work in her native Philippines was in the fields of multistakeholder watershed governance with a bilateral government project, and community-based natural resource management at an environmental law NGO. Jeneen's work at both organizations primarily involved research, education, knowledge management, advocacy, and communications across various media. She also has extensive experience as a former freelance writer, editor, and photographer for different publications.

Jeneen obtained a Joint European MSc in Water and Coastal Management in four European countries through an Erasmus Mundus scholarship. Her academic research focused on the scaling-up of management of social-ecological systems, using community-based marine protected areas in the Philippines as case study. She has a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, and conducted a Master's research in Marine Biology. Jeneen has certificates in evaluation from the International Program on Development Evaluation Training (IPDET), and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). She was Program Co-Chair (2019-2021) of the Systems in Evaluation Topical Interest Group (SETIG) of the American Evaluation Association.

Allen is an interdisciplinary water expert with over 10 years of progressive experience working at the intersection of agriculture, energy, and health systems. He's advised a sitting US Ambassador on foreign water-energy policy, worked within a Fortune 100 company on corporate sustainability, and has served in numerous consulting roles globally and across sectors. Allen leads WWF's freshwater work on science-based targets for nature, and facilitates the harmonization of metrics across WWF's Freshwater & Food team. Allen has a PhD in Civil Engineering from University of Virginia, a Master of Public Affairs degree in Water Governance and Policy from the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington, and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Clemson University.

Edward R. Carr is a geographer and anthropologist whose career and research focus on exploring alternative ways of achieving meaningful and enduring improvements to human well-being. His work provides insights into the ways development and adaptation interventions impact human well-being, both positive and negative, how livelihoods work to order agrarian and other worlds, and how resilience presents both barriers to, and opportunities for, the transformative changes needed to manage our world. He also directs the Humanitarian Response and Development Lab (HURDL), which is based in the George Perkins Marsh Institute. HURDL's wide-ranging work includes policy development, and project and program design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, all undertaken with the goal of assisting individuals and communities to build foundations for innovative development. He is the author of more than 70 publications on issues of development, livelihoods, adaptation to climate change, and the evolving global environment. Carr's research and practice has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, United States Agency for International Development, UK Department for International Development, World Resources Institute, World Bank, and Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre.

Jorge Luis Castaneda is a Behavioral Economist working with the Mind, Behavior & Development Unit (eMBeD) at the World Bank. He integrates behavioral science into the design and implementation of anti-poverty policies that address various issues such as waste management, employment and youth activation, and tax compliance. He has conducted research for over a decade in more than twenty developing countries across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Throughout his career, he has gained extensive experience in experimental economics, impact evaluation, econometric analysis, and qualitative research. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked as a Research Fellow with the Social Sector at the Inter-American Development Bank. He holds a B.A. and an M.Sc. in Economics from the Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia.

Kevin Green is a Vice President at Rare, where he leads the Center for Behavior & the Environment, a team of scientists and program designers bringing the best insights from the science of human behavior to bear on the world's most pressing environmental challenges. Before Rare, he was a research fellow at the Nature Conservancy and a research assistant at the Worldwatch Institute. He holds an MA in international development and economics from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in anthropology and sociology from Washington & Lee University.

Jos Vaessen (PhD) has been with the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group since 2016. Between 2016 and 2022 he led IEG's Methods Advisory Function. Since 2021 he has taken on a leading role with the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI). Jos has been working in evaluation research since 1998. He has conducted and led evaluations for multilateral and bilateral development organizations in a range of policy fields such as agriculture, environment, science, education, health and others. He has delivered numerous trainings and talks on evaluation practices and systems across the globe. Jos has authored several internationally peer reviewed publications, including three books. His most recent book is titled Evaluation of International Development Interventions: An Overview of Approaches and Methods.

Dan is an associate professor of Data Science and Applied Science at William & Mary, currently working at the nexus of deep learning and satellite imagery analysis. He works with federal agencies and international NGOs to develop new and secure ways to measure, predict, and improve human wellbeing at micro to macro scales. In collaboration with his students in the geoLab, he also helps to provision critical baseline data to the opensource community to improve data equality around the world.

Martin Noltze is senior evaluator and team manager at the Competence Center for Evaluation Methodologies at the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval). He has over 15 years of experience in development evaluation with a focus of evaluations in the context of climate change, environment and sustainability. At the Competence Center, Martin works on the advancement of evaluation standards and methods, including evaluation quality assessments, different forms of evidence syntheses, rigorous impact evaluations and theory-based evaluation designs.

Michell is an Impact Evaluation Specialist at the IEU. Prior to the IEU, Michell worked on various impact evaluation projects in the fields of agriculture and health with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Over the past nine years, she has primarily worked on designing and implementing household surveys and analyzing survey data for development projects. Michell holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations/Economics from Wellesley College and Ph.D. in Development Policy from KDI School.

Dr. Kunwar K. Singh is a Senior Geospatial Scientist at AidData and an Affiliate Faculty at the Center for Geospatial Analysis at William & Mary. His research is at the nexus of land change and geospatial sciences where he investigates how the terrestrial system can support future land conversions and resource consumption under a changing climate. He uses geospatial data and technologies supplemented with data from ground observations and weather stations to develop workflows for large spatiotemporal data processing, assess broad-scale land change and its implications to natural resources, and measure outcomes of new adaptations to diminishing natural resources. He also serves as a science advisor to the NASA DEVELOP program at the Center for Geospatial Research at the University ofGeorgia.

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 science, UAVs, and field-based methods to enhance evaluative evidence and knowledge products. Anupam has led evaluations on biodiversity, SFM and REDD+, land degradation, fragility and conflict, and illegal wildlife trade. Previously, as a Remote Sensing Scientist at the University of Maryland, he worked on multiple NASA-funded projects, including field campaigns for future satellite missions. He also consulted for the Climate Investment Funds, World Bank. Anupam has contributed to more than thirty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on remote sensing, evaluation, and environmental policy.

Prashanth is an Evaluation Specialist with more than over 11 years of evaluation and development experience in private sector, government, and UN. Before IEU, Prashanth worked with the Independent Office of Evaluation of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) as an evaluation officer. He has led, co-led and supported numerous corporate evaluations, thematic evaluations, evaluation synthesis, country portfolio evaluations and project evaluations. His evaluation experience includes countries in Middle East and North Africa, East and Southern Africa and Asia and Pacific region. In GCF, he has led evaluations on GCF's Direct Access Modality and GCF's Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme and is currently leading the Independent Evaluation of GCF's Investments in Latin America and Caribbean.

Katherine Shea is the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager for the Managing for Results team. She was previously the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist for the Forests Team. She supported the Global Forest Watch initiative in monitoring, reporting, evaluation and learning, with the aim of communicating achievements externally and helping WRI and partners learn from our successes and setbacks. Before joining WRI, Katherine worked at the UN World Food Programme (WFP) as a program officer in Ecuador, then as monitoring and evaluation lead in Indonesia. Katherine holds a Master of Public Administration from Cornell University with a concentration in International Development. Outside of work, Katherine enjoys outdoor adventures, from hiking to skiing to scuba diving, depending on where in the world she finds herself.

Jeff heads Indufor’s North America office. He has 18 years of experience leading analytical and field-based projects in natural resource governance, forest sector reform, and land tenure reform for public, private, and philanthropic clients. He is currently a team member on the Midterm Evaluation of the Climate Investment Fund’s Forest Investment Program. His evaluation work has recently included the independent evaluations of CLUA’s NICFI-funded portfolio, the NYDF Progress Assessment Partnership and Global Platform, and the mid-term reviews for Forest Finance Coalition, CDP, the Nature Conservancy, and the National Wildlife Federation. He has led field-based research projects on forest governance and land tenure in Central and East Africa. He also leads Indufor’s portfolio in North America, which featured multi-year engagement in the State of Maine’s pulp and paper economy transition to a diversified forest-based bioeconomy. He was formerly Director for Global Programs at the Rights and Resources Group, overseeing Communications and leading analytical projects in tropical forested countries on links between forest governance, land tenure, and REDD+, and convening dialogues on REDD+ policies and standards. He began his career at FAO, supporting natural resource policy reforms in Sudan and South Sudan. He holds an MBA in finance from INSEAD, an MA in Development Studies from the University of Pavia (Italy), and a Bachelor’s in International Relations from the College of William and Mary. He speaks French, Italian, and intermediate Spanish.

Ketevan leads country programs on strengthening national Monitoring and Evaluation systems at the Global Evaluation Initiative of the World Bank. Ms. Nozadze brings over 12 years of work experience in institutional capacity building and evaluations. Over the past years, Ms. Nozadze has led country Monitoring and Evaluation Systems (MESA) diagnostics globally and worked with governments and civil society to strengthen institutional capacities and systems with focus on climate change and environmental sustainability. Ketevan holds a Master's degree in Economics from Johns Hopkins SAIS and a Master's degree in Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Camila is the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Policies, within the Brazilian Minister of Planning and Budget, showcasing her dedication to o the improvement of public policies. Since 2014, Camila has been actively engaged in the evaluation of public policies within both the public sector and academia. Previously, she has worked with the Center for Learning on Evaluation Results (CLEAR) Brazil and supported Brazil strengthening national and subnational Evaluation systems. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Public Administration and Government Program at Fundação Getúlio Vargas' São Paulo School of Business Administration.

Raslan has held a number of high senior management positions in key government agencies over the past thirty years. He is currently a Senior VP of Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT). Raslan led MIGHT International team to provide secretariat ship for Global Science Innovation Advisory Council (GSIAC) together with New York Academy of Sciences from 2012-2017. He drive strategic initiatives in the area of clean, green and renewable energy, sustainable cities and communities and Industry 4.0. Raslan was appointed as National Program Director for Global Sustainable Cities Integrated Approach Pilot Project for Malaysia which funded by Global Environment Facility (GEF) and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

Taku Chirau is a Deputy Director at Centre for Learning on Evaluation & Results Anglophone Africa AA/ Wits University in South Africa. He has conducted several National Evaluation Capacity Development (NECD) activities in English speaking East and Southern Africa particularly with national governments. His contributions are evidenced in countries of Kenya, Eswatini, Uganda, Zambia, Lesotho, Namibia, Botswana, Tanzania, Liberia, and Zimbabwe to mention a few. The work includes: capacity strengthening and or development through pieces of training, working with Voluntary Organisations for Professional Evaluations (VOPEs), conducting M&E Systems Analysis, developing evaluation guidelines, evaluation plans/agenda's, developing monitoring and evaluation plans and policies among others. Taku is a seasoned evaluator and a sessional lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) and supervises masters students. He is a scholar and has written peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in accredited journals. He is a former Board Member of South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA).

Marvin Taylor-Dormond heads AIIB's Complaints-resolution, Evaluation and Integrity Unit (CEIU) and reports directly to AIIB's Board of Directors. He is responsible for leading the CEIU's: learning and evaluation function (evaluative assessments of AIIB's ordinary and special operations); complaints-handling function (implementation of the Project-affected People's Mechanism); complaints-handling mechanism regarding compliance with the Environmental and Social Policy; and anti-fraud and corruption function (anti-fraud and corruption work carried out in accordance with the Policy on Prohibited Practices). This includes investigating and handling complaints relating to Prohibited Practices.

Candice Morkel (PhD) is the Director of the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results - Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA) and senior lecturer in Monitoring and Evaluation at Wits University. She has over 25 years' experience in government, academia and the non-profit sector, specialising in development, M&E and public policy. As Director of CLEAR-AA, she works with governments and development partners across the African continent to help build better systems of evidence production and use. She has published peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and edited books on M&E, and supervises local and international Masters and PhD students in evaluation. She is a legacy Board Member of AfrEA, legacy chair of SAMEA and is currently a Board member of the International Evaluation Academy.

Ian is President of the International Evaluation Academy, an International Advisor on Evaluation/M&E and Evidence Systems, and an Adjunct Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town. He worked in the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, South Africa, where he established and ran the National Evaluation System to 2018 and was a founder of the Twende Mbele African M&E Partnership. Since 2018 Ian has been researching, training and consulting internationally in evidence use and evaluation systems, as well as on M&E for just transition. He advises on M&E with the South African Presidency, Global Evaluation Initiative, CLEAR Anglophone Africa, and Operation Vulindlela in South Africa, and is on the International Evaluation Academy and South African Parliamentary Institute Boards.

Andrealisa Belzer is a Credentialed Evaluator employed with the Atlantic Region of Indigenous Services Canada. She serves as National President of the Canadian Evaluation Society. She also participates in the EvalPartners EvalIndigenous Network and the Global Advisory Council for Blue Marble Evaluation. Andrealisa has practiced health and social services evaluation since 1995, in Canada and internationally. She is committed to evaluative and decolonizing practice that facilitates systems transformation toward mutualism.

Hur Hassnain (MDS, MBA) is an evaluation specialist, author, the founder of Pakistan Evaluation Association and treasurer at the International Evaluation Academy. Based in Brussels, Belgium, he is the senior evaluation specialist for the European Commission, DG INTPA and DG NEAR’s external service on Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Design for External Action supporting the headquarter units, and about 96 EU Delegations around the world (since 2019). He has conducted and led evaluations for civil society, multilateral and bilateral development organizations in a range of thematic areas such as gender equality, education, rural development, agriculture, environment, and women’s economic empowerment. Hur has authored several internationally peer reviewed publications, including a book as lead author: Evaluation in Contexts of Fragility, Conflict and Violence (2021) which presents an interesting argument that “evaluation” – like development aid itself – can unintentionally exacerbate tensions in ways that can negatively affect people and institutions if care is not taken in designing and approaching it with caution and sensitivity.

Dr. Bowman, PhD, is a traditional Lunaape/Mohican woman in service to others at the intersection of truth, spirituality, traditional knowledge, sovereignty, governance, and evaluation. She’s been an active Indigenous community member for 40 years and an evaluator for over two decades. She is president of the award-winning Bowman Performance Consulting and an Associate Scientist/Evaluator at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Bowman supports projects advancing Indigenous scholarship with Tribal/non-Tribal governments and philanthropic, non-profit, and organizations internationally. She is recognized in several associations including the American Evaluation Association, Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment, Internationally, she is a member of the Canadian Evaluation Society, leadership within EvalIndigenous, Co-creator of “Roots and Relations”, Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. Finally, Dr. Bowman is the Co-editor for the Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation, a special global issue with Dr. Bagele Chilisa.

Dr. Jane Davidson is an internationally recognized evaluation specialist, best known for developing evaluation rubrics as a methodology for drawing conclusions about quality and value. She has also made significant contributions in the areas of causal inference for qualitative and mixed methods, and in synthesis methodologies for evaluation. Jane is former Associate Director of the internationally recognized Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, where she launched and directed the world's first fully Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation. She was the 2019 recipient of the American Evaluation Association's prestigious Paul F. Lazarsfeld Evaluation Theory Award.

Mike is a Senior Sustainability Specialist with the CIF Evaluation and Learning (E&L) Initiative. He has worked at the intersection of sustainable development, learning and change for over 25 years. Mike is currently leading the CIF's work on the Transformational Change Learning Partnership (TCLP) and contributes to work on just transitions and strategic program evaluations. In his previous roles in national environmental NGOs, co-lead of regional programs, and international consultancies, Mike has developed, conducted, and evaluated global and local programs on sustainable development. He holds a Masters in International Environmental Science from Lund University, and a Masters of Business Administration from Henley Business School.

Evaluation-Expert and Political Scientist, PhD at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Evaluation expert with more than 20 years experience in design and implementation of evaluations in the field of development cooperation; Sven Harten has lived and worked for 15 years in countries of the Global South, where he was mainly active as an evaluator and project manager, with M&E missions in more than 50 countries; Full-time employment as an employee at the World Bank, the European Commission, among others, as well as an independent consultant.

Taku Chirau is a Deputy Director at Centre for Learning on Evaluation & Results Anglophone Africa AA/ Wits University in South Africa. He has conducted several National Evaluation Capacity Development (NECD) activities in English speaking East and Southern Africa particularly with national governments. His contributions are evidenced in countries of Kenya, Eswatini, Uganda, Zambia, Lesotho, Namibia, Botswana, Tanzania, Liberia, and Zimbabwe to mention a few. The work includes: capacity strengthening and or development through pieces of training, working with Voluntary Organisations for Professional Evaluations (VOPEs), conducting M&E Systems Analysis, developing evaluation guidelines, evaluation plans/agenda's, developing monitoring and evaluation plans and policies among others. Taku is a seasoned evaluator and a sessional lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) and supervises masters students. He is a scholar and has written peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in accredited journals. He is a former Board Member of South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA).

Dugan Fraser is the Program Manager at the Global Evaluation Initiative. Previously, he was the Director of the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results at the University of the Witwatersrand and an Adjunct Professor. Prior to that, as an independent consultant, he supported organizations to collect and use evidence for better decision-making, including designing interventions, monitoring performance, assessing results, and supporting strategy and program planning.

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 has a Ph.D in Economics and an M.B.A in Finance.

In 2015 she joined the Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility as Chief Evaluator and Deputy Director. Before this role, she worked in the World Bank's private sector development department for seven years (1998-2005) implementing competitiveness projects in East Asia and Latin America; and then with the International Finance Corporation as head and chief evaluator for the IFC advisory services portfolio.  Geeta also worked in the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank as chief evaluator and manager for country and corporate thematic evaluations.

Geeta has co-authored books and articles and managed over 100 evaluations. 

Prior to the World Bank, Geeta spent two years at American Express in New York where she was a senior manager of risk. 

In her current role she manages a team of evaluation professionals, and provides oversight on the design, implementation and quality of evaluations. Geeta has co-authored books and articles and managed over 100 evaluations. 

Indran A. Naidoo is the Director of the Independent Office of Evaluation at IFAD. He brings vast global experience into the role having served as the Director of the Independent Evaluation (IEO) of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), where he led the transformation and expansion of the office during his 8 year term. Fundamental transformation milestones included entrenching independence, establishing a budget target through a new evaluation policy, new polices, advancing staff professionalization, diversifying evaluation products, dedicated IEO website, and achieving five-fold expansion of coverage and evaluation efficiency. The National Evaluation Capacity (NEC) series grew under his leadership to become the largest United Nations evaluation capacity building event by country participation, offering training and forums for thought leadership with partners over the period, which saw major co-hosting with government and evaluation partners and networks in South Africa, Brazil, Thailand, Turkey and Egypt. Indran has emphasized the importance of evaluation for good governance, transparency, accountability and learning, and has been active in evaluation networks of the United Nations, as a UNEG Vice-Chair, and former Board member of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), and South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA). He services as academic advisor and reviewer for evaluation courses and journals, and has published extensively.

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. He has conducted and managed many programmatic and thematic evaluations of international cooperation at the global, regional and country levels, in particular related to environmental management and poverty-environment linkages. He served as the Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) from 2009 to 2012 and again in 2014.

Juha's entire career has focused on environment and development, with earlier positions at the United Nations University (UNU), Nordic Africa Institute, and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). He has worked as consultant in the field and held visiting positions at Rutgers University and Kyoto University. He was educated at the Universities of Helsinki and Lund, and holds a PhD in Social and Economic Geography.

Rob D. van den Berg is Visiting Professor at the Department for International Development of King’s College, London, as well as an Honorary Associate of the Institute of Development Studies in Brighton. He serves as a member of the Evaluation Advisory Panel of IFAD. His past positions include President of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) (2014-2020), Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF at the World Bank (2004-2014) and Director of the Evaluation Department of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1999-2004). His advisory work has focused on many organisations, including the Green Climate Fund and the Climate Investment Funds. From 2002-2004 he was Chairman of the OECD/DAC network on development evaluation. He has co-edited 8 books on international development and transformational change and published more than 25 peer reviewed articles and chapters.

Sabine Bernabè, is the Director-General of the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank Group (WBG). Sabine’s vision for IEG is to deliver on this challenge by producing useful, high quality, independent evaluations that enhance the WBG accountability and provide evidence-based lessons for better results and decision-making. Sabine has over 20 years’ international development experience in evaluation, policy, and research across several International Organizations and academia. Before leading IEG, Sabine led the Evaluation Function of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group. She fostered knowledge management and strengthened the function’s analytical skills, advanced evaluation-based dialogue and exchanges with Management and the Board on issues of critical importance to the EIB Group and promoted collaborative relationships with heads of evaluation of other international organizations. Previously Sabine worked as an economist for the World Bank, the EIB, UNDP and the University of K.U. Leuven. She also worked, taught and published on a range of topics including poverty, inequality, labor markets, growth and financial sector development.  Sabine earned a Ph. D from the London School of Economics and a Masters from SDA Bocconi

Emmanuel Jimenez is the Director General of the Independent Evaluation Department of the Asian Development Bank. In more than 30 years, Mr. Jimenez focused on evaluation, policy advice and research in the fields of economic development. He served as the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3IE) from February 2015 to February 2020, and led the organization's work in 40 countries, raised funds from government and private donors, and advocated globally for evidence use in decision-making. From 2012-2014, he headed the Public Sector Department of the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) at the World Bank Group (WBG). He joined WBG in 1984 to conduct research on public and social policies and lead regional departments responsible for operations on human development (education, health, nutrition, population, and social protection) and provided strategic direction and management oversight for large lending programs. Mr. Jimenez has written extensively on economic development in books, peer-reviewed professional journals, and reports, with emphasis on public policy to improve the social and economic outcomes of low-income households and individuals. In addition to routinely giving lectures on the subject of international economic development, he is the managing editor of The Journal of Development Effectiveness.