Ian Craig Davies - President
Ian Craig Davies (FRANCE) has been a practising evaluator for over 25 years with professional experience in Europe, the Americas and Africa, a member and board member of professional evaluation organisations, i.e. EES, IDEAS, UKES, AEA, CES, and a regular presenter at annual conferences and professional events. Ian joined EES in 1996 and presented at the second annual conference in Stockholm in March 1997. He is an independent consultant in public management, performance measurement, accountability reporting and evaluation.
Maria Bustelo - Vice President and Secretary General
PhD in Political Science, is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the Complutense University, Madrid (UCM), Spain. She has worked as an independent consultant for Spanish public administrations and agencies, the European Commission, and NGOs in the field of programme evaluation, and in the areas of community development, health promotion, drug dependency prevention, and gender policies. She is also the director of the Master on Evaluation of Programmes and Public Policies (UCM), and member of the Board of Director Committee of the National Agency for the Evaluation of Public Policies and the Quality of Public Services. She leads the European QUING project team at the UCM (QUING: Quality in Gender+ Equality Policies -2006-2011- www.quing.eu; a research project supported by the VI European Framework Programme). She has a number of publications on analysis and evaluation of public policies and gender equality policies.
Peter Wichmand - Treasurer
Marie Kaufmann - 2010 EES Conference Co-chair
Dr.Marie Kaufmann is an evaluation expert and socio-economic specialist with 25 year of practice in the sphere of international relations, research and consultancy. She has 14 years of experience in evaluation of development and structural assistance in Central and Eastern Europe. Since 1996 she has been involved in the evaluation of EU pre-accession in 12 countries and structural funds in most of EU member states, serving as a team leader or a senior expert. Beside evaluations, Marie was working as a project manager and development specialists in many development aid and EU funded projects.
Marie is also active in designing and lecturing evaluation training courses for public administration, local government representatives and private consultancies, including NGOs.
Ms. Kaufmann is an executive director of a consultancy company Evasco, which is specialized in evaluation of development assistance and technical assistance provision to implementing bodies for EU structural funds in the Czech Republic and abroad.
In terms of education, Marie holds PhD in Social Sciences from the Charles University in Prag and has 25 year of practice in the sphere of international relations and human resources development in general.
Marie is cofounder of the Czech Evaluation Society.
Claudine Voyadzis - 2010 EES Conference Co-chair
Claudine Voyadzis has spent some 20 years working in the evaluation field. Her work consisted mainly of appraisal and monitoring of projects and programmes, impact studies and ex post evaluations in West and East Europe and in Africa. She earned her Ph.D. in the United States in Demography and Sociology and has a dual experience of Anglo-Saxon and European approaches to evaluation. After working in the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank in Washington, she joined the Council of Europe Development Bank in Paris as technical adviser for project appraisal and monitoring. Subsequently she was appointed to set up the Ex Post Evaluation Department and remained for six years as Director of the Department. Claudine Voyadzis works now as an independent consultant, and leads evaluations for multilateral organisations and consulting firms.
Karin Attström
Karin Attström is working in the field of project, programme and policy evaluation as well as performance assessments and results based management, mainly within fields related to good governance and public sector development. She is head of the department for International Consulting and European Affairs at a large European consulting firm and has comprehensive experience of providing evaluation services to the EU Commission and other international institutions such as WB, OECD as well as bilateral donors such as Sida and Danida. Furthermore, Karin is an experienced facilitator and lecturer and is regularly involved in training activities regarding performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring, for the EU Commission and other international organizations and NGOs.
Burt Perrin
Burt Perrin (FRANCE), has over 30 years’ practical experience in Europe and internationally in evaluation, policy and programme development, and strategic planning and is recognised as a leader in the field. His clients include: the European Commission, various governments in Europe and in other parts of the world, various UN agencies, NGOs, and private sector organisations. Burt places strong emphasis on taking a practical approach to evaluation, so that it is most likely to result in use in some form. Examples of recent publications include: “How to – and How Not to – Evaluate Innovation”, “How Evaluation Can Help Make Knowledge Management Real”, “Making Yourself – and Evaluation – Useful”, and “Effective Use and Misuse of Performance Measurement”. Burt is a founding member of the EES, and is also actively involved in other evaluation organisations, such as the International Evaluation Research Group (INTEVAL). Burt is pleased to see the growth and in particular the increasing diversity of approaches to evaluation across Europe, and feels that the EES has played a significant role in this respect. He would like to see the EES continue to support this, for example through increased opportunities for sharing of information and practices across Europe.
Bob Picciotto
Robert (‘Bob’) Picciotto, (UK) Professor, Kings College (London) was Director General of the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group from 1992 to 2002. He previously served as Vice President, Corporate Planning and Budgeting and Director, Projects in three of the World Bank’s Regions. He currently sits on the United Kingdom Evaluation Society Council and the European Evaluation Society’s board. He serves as senior evaluation adviser to the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Global Environment Fund. He is also a member of the International Advisory Committee on Development Impact which reports to the Secretary of State for International Development of the United Kingdom.
Petri Uusikylä
Petri Uusikylä is co-founder, Senior Partner and Chairman of the Board at Net Effect Ltd (research and public management consultancy firm based in Helsinki, Finland). Prior to establishing Net Effect Ltd in 1999, he worked as Senior Advisor at the Ministry of Finance, Finland with special responsibility for performance management, evaluation and benchmarking and as assistant professor at Helsinki University in Department of Political Science. His areas of research and teaching has ranged from performance management and budgeting to programme and project management and public policy evaluations, evaluation methodologies and methods, as well as public management reforms. Mr. Uusikylä has been member of several professional bodies e.g. Secretary General of the Finnish Section of the International Institute for Administrative Sciences (Member of the Board 2000-) and has been an expert in several EU and OECD Expert Groups in the field of performance management. He has also worked as adviser to several Governments (e.g. in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Vietnam and other OECD-countries) on evidence-based policy-making, evaluation and performance management.