Current Board of Directors

MENA Representative

Sana Ben Salem

Sana Ben Salem has a PhD in Management and strategy of companies. Her doctoral work focused, particularly, on Free Business Models. She is a Young emerging Evaluator, representative of the MENA region in the IOCE, a member of the GPFE steering committee and an activist in climate change. Currently, she is a university professor teaching strategic Management. She followed many trainings in diplomacy, renewable energies (Regional Program on Energy Security and Climate Change Middle East and North Africa in Rabat Konrad Adenauer Stiftung) and SDGs. Her field of expertise includes social innovation and digitization.

She is a very active member in evaluation, involved in many national and international networks. She is a leader member in EvalYouth, Former Co-chair of the professional insertion working group with the Francophone Network of Young Emerging Evaluators (RF-Ee) and former member of EvalSDGs.

She worked with many international organizations. She is a member of the UNFPA Steering Commitee working on Youth and adolescents’ Sexual and reproductive health and rights. She supported the collaborative project of Ethmar Organization in partnership with UNITAR on enabling and empowering Youth and young women in Libya. She worked with the IIED on the forest projects under the REED+ initiative. She was a coordinator of the International Program for Developement Evaluation Training in Tunisia with the collaboration of the International institute of Innovation for developement (IIIDev Canada). She worked with EvalYouth to develop toolkit/guidelines for the Involvement of Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEEs) in VOPEs’ activities and leadership structures.

AfrEA Representative

Bali Andriantseheno

Graduated as Economist Statistician, Bali Andriantseheno has thirty five years of professional experience, twenty of them in the monitoring & evaluation fields. He worked mostly as an international Consultant in the private sector, as a resource person for international organizations and as a Program Manager for Government departments. An IPDET alumni, he has in his account more than 30 M&E assignments and he also lectured in the fields of Sustainable Development and Social Public Policy at the University of Antananarivo. He is a founding member and a former President of MASSE, the Malagasy VOPE. He was appointed in March 2015 as the Coordinator General of the Reform Program for Administration Efficiency at the Presidency of the Republic of Madagascar. He is actually a Board Member of AfrEA.

American Evaluation Association (AEA) Representative

Donna Podems

Donna is a researcher, facilitator, and monitoring and evaluation specialist with more than 23 years’ experience. She holds a doctorate in interdisciplinary studies focused on Program Evaluation and Organizational Development, and a Masters degree in Public Administration. She is the author of Being An Evaluator, Your Guide to Evaluation. She has worked with governments, civil society, nongovernmental groups, international donors, and foundations. She has experience designing and reviewing evaluation methodologies for a range of international programs, as well as conducting implementation, outcome and impact evaluations in projects in agriculture, early childhood development, education, environment, gender, health systems, HIV/AIDS, human rights, trade and investment, and women’s empowerment. She has worked for USAID, DFID, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, MasterCard Foundation, multiple UN organizations, African Development Bank, World Bank, and local nonprofits, among others.

Donna is a former National Board Member for the American Evaluation Association (AEA), and a former National Board Member for the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA). She is an Associate Professor at Michigan State University and a Senior Research Associate at University of Johannesburg. She has published multiple papers, books chapters, books and journal articles. She is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Evaluation.

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.

APEA Representative

Aniruddha Brahmachari

Mr. Aniruddha Brahmachari is a social sector professional with more than 24 years of experience in programme management, Monitoring & Evaluation. Mr. Brahmachari had previously worked as the Global Monitoring Evaluation Learning Officer with the Oxfam International Secretariat and as Regional Programme Quality Lead for Horn, East and Central Africa region for Oxfam and OXFAM India. He has worked in similar capacities with LANDESA, IDE, UNDP India, Care India & Nielsen.

Aniruddha heads the Research Operations and M&E function at LEAD@KREA University, India.

He obtained M.Phil in Planning and Development from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and Masters in Planning and Development from the University of Poona and has completed his MBA from Manipal University.

He has authored many papers and edited three books, “Evaluations for Sustainable Development: Experiences and Learning” and “New Directions for Evaluations: Visibility, Voice and Value”. In 2020 he edited a book titled, “Emerging Evaluation Experiences: Way Forward for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals”.

Aniruddha is also the Co-Founder and Co-Leader of Evaluation Community of India and Board Member of Asia Pacific Evaluation Association.

Réseau Francophone d’Evaluation Representative

Dr. Mamadou Coulibaly

Socio-economist of development, specialist and trainer in forecasting, planning and monitoring-evaluation, Mamadou has a Ph.D in social sciences of development and is Teacher-Researcher at the “Ecole Normale Supérieure d’Abidjan” (ENS) / Ivory Coast. Holder of a master’s degree in economics and a diploma of applied studies in social sciences in human capital development (option: expertise in prospective and strategic planning), Mamadou is also an engineer in humanitarian management and development, and is registered in the MASTER humanitarian and international relations.

Mamadou has more than 10 years of experience in strategic education planning, statistical production, community management and project evaluation. He has been a consultant for ECOWAS, UEMOA, UNESCO, UNDP, AfDB, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Côte d’Ivoire.

His skills in Governance, Planning, Evaluation and Project Management have enabled him to participate in the preparation of Strategic Development Documents (Results-oriented PIP, MTEF, DRSP and PND) and in the Evaluation of Government Action.

In addition, given his experience in the strategic management of the education sector, Mamadou participated in numerous works with the Planning Departments of the sector within the framework of inter-ministerial platforms.

He is :

• Permanent Secretary of the Ivorian Monitoring and Evaluation Network (RISE)
• Vice-President of the Francophone Network for Evaluation (RFE)
• Representative of RFE at the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (OICE)

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.

ReLAC Representative

Celeste Ghiano

Celeste is the current general coordinator of ReLAC (Latin America and the Caribbean Network of Monitoring, Evaluation and Systematization) – 2021-2024. She is a Political Scientist, and holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration, with a dissertation about Individual capacities in Evaluation in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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.