Current Board of Directors

Eurasia Representative

Anna Harutyunyan

Anna HARUTYUNYAN – has master degree in Sociology, she is the 2013 alumni of International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET).

Anna has more than 15 years’ experience in social research and M&E in the sphere of education, public health, youth, etc. in public, private and CSO sectors both locally and internationally, with strong knowledge of quantitative research design. Anna is an expert in research ethics and M&E system development.

From 2017 till June 2019 Anna chaired the coordination board of Eurasian Alliance of National Evaluation Associations and currently are in the advisory board of the Alliance.

She is a co-chair of EvalYouthECA and chair of Armenian Monitoring and Evaluation Association and board member of ethical committee.

Eurasia Representative

Alena Lappo

Alena LAPPO is an evaluation specialist with eight years of analysis and research experience in the public and private sectors. She is a Board Member of the European Evaluation Society and the leader of the European Emerging Evaluators (yEES!) network, which is the European Chapter of EvalYouth. Currently, she is a Value for Money Specialist with the OECD, while, previously, she conducted and managed evaluations in the World Bank and FAO, and also worked on results-based management in IFAD.

Australia/New Zealand/Maori VOPEs Representative

Kwadwo Adusei Asante

Kwadwo is an evaluative research and community development professional with over 15 years international experience, mainly in Australia, Ghana, The Netherlands and Sri Lanka. He has expertise in building evaluations systems for not-for-profit organisations. In the last decade, he has led and been part of teams that have developed and managed high-level, agency-wide strategic multi-site best-practice research projects, evaluation system development, stakeholder engagements, policy analysis and service and systems audits. These projects largely advised and provided insights on matters relating to strategic directions, operational and business area performance for Universities, CEOs, Corporate Executives, Project Directors and Policymakers. As a Chief Investigator, he has received project and research funding of over a million dollars in the last decade. He has produced almost 100 publications in project reports, journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, theses and presentations and achieved eight PHD completions.

Representative from CoE-SA.

Rajib Nandi

Rajib Nandi is a development researcher and evaluator with 25 years of experience in program designing and gender transformative evaluation. Dr. Nandi had previously worked with Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi and presently he heads the capacity development vertical at Sambodhi Research Communications, India.

He obtained M.Phil in Applied Economics from the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum and Ph.D. in Sociology for Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is an IPDET alumni from Bern University, Switzerland.

In his career, Dr. Nandi has collaborated with renowned international organizations to address urban and rural livelihoods, women’s economic empowerment, political ecology, and social and solidarity economies.

Rajib has authored many papers and edited books. He recently co-edited a book entitled “Local wisdom Matters: Reflections on Evaluation Theory and Practice from South Asia”. Previously, he co-edited books entitled “Recognizing Connectedness: The Practice of Feminist Evaluation” and Voices and Values: The Politics of Feminist Evaluation.

He is also the Co-Founder and Co-Leader of Evaluation Community of India and council member of International Evaluation Academy. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the international journal – Evaluation and Program Planning.

Qudratullah Jahid

Qudratullah Jahid is an accomplished monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning specialist with a strong background in bilateral and multilateral development organisations, including DFAT, USAID, the World Bank and UN agencies in the Asia Pacific. His focus areas include MEL frameworks and systems, third-party monitoring, mixed methods evaluations, and evaluation capacity building.

In 2013, Qudratullah co-founded the Afghan Evaluation Society, a national organization dedicated to promoting the MEL agenda in Afghanistan. He has been part of initiatives enhancing transparency and accountability in the development sector. His key volunteer focus has been building young professionals’ capacity through the EvalYouth Global Network, where he has served as a Board Member.

Qudratullah currently lives in Melbourne and works as an independent MEL consultant. He has been a Board Member/Vice President at the Asia Pacific Evaluation Association since 2022, currently serving his second term (2024-2025).

American Evaluation Association (AEA) Representative

Alyna Wyatt

Alyna is the Senior Advisor, Impact and Learning at the BHP Foundation where her role is to support the Foundation to achieve its desired impact, through sustainable and scalable system change.

She believes in a utilization focused approach to measurement, evaluation and learning, and emphasises the importance that all such efforts must culminate in insights for the improved design and implementation of future policy and interventions to be  value-adding. She has worked in emerging contexts rife with complexity and ambiguity.

Prior to joining the BHP Foundation, she was a Managing Partner at Genesis Analytics, a leading African economics and development consulting firm, where responsibilities included both firm wide strategy, growth and transformation as well as leading a team of 20 specialist evaluation practitioners serving a variety of clients from Foundations to international NGOs and impact investors and development finance institutions.

She has held a variety of leadership roles in different industry bodies including as the Treasurer of the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA) from 2015 – 2019, on the Social Impact Measurement (SIM) TIG leadership, including Chair in final year (2017 – 2020), and on the AEA Financial Advisors to the Board (FAB), from 2020 – 2022.

MENA Representative

Khalil Bitar

Khalil Bitar is the co-founder and former Chair of the EvalYouth Global Network and co-founder and former co-leader of the Eval4Action global campaign.  He is also the founder and former President of the Palestinian Evaluation Association (PEA), a board member of the Middle East and North Africa Evaluation Network (EvalMENA), and a founding trustee and former board member (& former chair of the Fellowship Committee) in the International Evaluation Academy (IEAc).  Currently, Khalil is the Learning, Monitoring, and Evaluation Lead of the Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern in Switzerland; Senior Evaluation Advisor in the Evaluation Methods Advisory Panel of the World Food Programme (WFP); and faculty member and instructor with EnCompass Learning Center (ELC), teaching about equity and social justice consideration in evaluation. 

Claudine Morier

Swiss independent evaluator with more than 12 years experience. Before setting up her own business, she worked for two evaluation and consultancy firms and joined the Swiss Federal Audit Office (the Confederation’s highest supervisory authority) as an evaluator and project manager, where she stayed for over six years.

Claudine is specialized in public policy evaluation and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a Master’s degree in Public Management & Policy. She has extensive experience of managing complex, multidimensional and cross-disciplinary projects, using qualitative, quantitative and participatory methods. Claudine acquired extensive expertise in a wide range of areas, including social and health policies, energy, agriculture and environmental policies, regulatory impact assessments and federalism.

From the start of her career, Claudine Morier has been involved in developing the profession of evaluator. She organised workshops on behalf of the Swiss Evaluation Society (SEVAL) to raise awareness of evaluation among cantonal authorities, before joining its board of directors in 2018. From 2019 to 2023, she was a vice-president of the Réseau francophone d’évaluation (RFE), where she was particularly involved in building the capacity of national evaluation associations, publishing professional resources in French and organising the International Francophone Forum on Evaluation (FIFE2021 & 2023). She continues to lead the RFE’s professionalization working group.

Miché Ouédraogo

Dr. Miché Ouédraogo is Associate Professor at African Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CESAG), Dakar, Senegal in project, program and public policy evaluation and CEO of Performance initiative internationale. Prior to this, he worked as a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at the World Bank, with the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) and the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI), and as an Evaluation Capacity Development Specialist with the Evaluation Unit of the African Development Bank (AfDB). He also worked at the Center for research and expertise in evaluation (CREXE) in Quebec, Canada, where he contributed to several evaluation mandates in Canada.
As principal consultant and associate consultant, he has participated in the evaluation of over fifteen (15) development programs in francophone Africa (Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Niger, Mauritania, Chad, Guinea Conakry, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Burundi, Madagascar, Djibouti, the Comoros Islands, etc.), Guinea Bissau and Canada.
Dr Miché Ouédraogo holds a PhD in public administration, specializing in public policy analysis and management, from the National School of Public Administration (ÉNAP – Quebec, Canada), a Master degree in Project Management from the African Institute of Management (IAM), a Master’s degree in Economics and Management Sciences from the University of Koudougou (UK) and a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the Higher Institute of Population Sciences (ISSP) of the University of Ouagadougou (UO)-Burkina Faso.
He is the author of a published book on participatory evaluation and co-author of several scientific articles and book chapters on evaluation.
On the academic front, he is a lecturer on the Master’s degree in program evaluation at the National School of Public Administration (ÉNAP – Quebec, Canada), the MBA in project management and the Master’s degree in policy, project and program evaluation (ME3P) at the African Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CESAG), in Dakar.
He was a founding member of the Eval-Youth network, co-coordinator of the Francophone network of emerging evaluators (RF-Ee) and co-coordinator of the AfrEA network of emerging evaluators.

Isaac M KIWANGO

Isaac Kiwango is a management consultant with over eighteen years of professional experience, much of which has been in consultancy services. His key skills are in conducting applied research and program evaluations, designing monitoring and evaluation frameworks, training of senior management teams in designing monitoring dashboards, evaluation of leadership development programs, institutional development and training in the areas of leadership development, performance management, relational database developments, data and information systems development, social networking strategies, data management and software evaluations. He has conducted applied research and evaluation on a broad range of issues, including public health, antipoverty initiatives, leadership development, human resource, the environment, training, agricultural sector, criminal justice, international development, community development, systems change, policy effectiveness, managing for results, performance indicators, and effective governance. He has worked with organizations and programs at the international, national, regional, and local levels and with philanthropic, not-for-profit, private sector, international agency, and government programs. He has worked with people from many different cultures and perspectives. Isaac has vast experience in and knowledge of public reform programs. He was involved in the rollout and implementation of the famous public service reform program between year 2000 and 2010 where he assisted in rolling out the computerized M&E system in eleven leading ministries of the government of Tanzania and train staff in the usage of the system. He is particularly well-versed in training civil and public servants.

ReLAC Representative

Brenda Bucheli

Social psychologist with a Master’s degree in Human Resources and Knowledge Management and

postgraduate studies in Statistics and Information Management. Specialist in planning, monitoring and

evaluation of development interventions, individual and organizational capacity development, and

information and knowledge management. I have 30 years of professional experience in various public and

private sector institutions at national and international levels. I have held various technical and high-level

management positions (Director of the NGO Pact Peru, President of the Peruvian Evaluation Network –

EvalPeru, and Director of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for Sustainability Project – USAID MELS).

Extensive consulting experience – more than 60 contracts, successfully managed in Peru and Latin America

from 2005 to present. Twenty years of experience with USAID projects and relevant experience in

environment, climate change adaptation, nutrition, livelihoods, and rural development. Active participation

in professional networks; founder of EvalPeru and RELAC. ReLAC General Coordinator (2024-2027). Since

2006, I have been teaching in graduate M&E programs (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Perú and

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia). Recipient of the Molly Hageboeck Award for Excellence in

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (2024) in the category of Advancement in MEL Training and Capacity

Building.

Professionalization Task Force Member

Natalia Aquilino

Natalia Aquilino is a political scientist and evaluation specialist. She has managerial experience in the governmental (Government of Argentina) and social sectors (CIPPEC, Evaluar), in the international intergovernmental sphere (UN, UNDP, UNEP) and in the high-tech industry (Neoris, Telecom Personal). She led multidisciplinary teams in Latin America and Argentina and managed expert knowledge in social and productive development, education, security and technology. She participated in international and intercultural research teams and change management processes for most of her career. Natalia led more than 30 impact, outcome and process evaluation, designed M&E systems and advised on evaluation policies in Latin America and Argentina. Her research agenda includes evaluability of government programs, M&E systems design, policy influence strategies and accountability. She is a strong advocate for institutionalization of evaluation. Currently, she is M&E National Director at the Secretary for Industrial Development of the Ministry of Economy in the Government of Argentina.