Board Members
Maria Bustelo (President)
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.
Maria.Bustelo@europeanevaluation.org
Claudine Voyadzis (Vice President)
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.
Claudine.Voyadzis@europeanevaluation.org
Bastiaan de Laat (Secretary General)
Bastiaan de Laat (PhD) has a longstanding experience in evaluation. Founder-director of the French subsidiary of the Technopolis Group (1998-2006) he led many evaluations for and provided policy advice to a great variety of local, national and international public bodies. He trained several hundreds of European Commission staff and national government officials in evaluation and was involved in the design of monitoring and evaluation systems for various public organisations. More recently, he worked as Evaluator at the Council of Europe Development Bank and currently holds a post of Senior Evaluator at the European Investment Bank.
Bastiaan.deLaat@europeanevaluation.org
Peter Wichmand (Treasurer)
Peter.Wichmand@europeanevaluation.org
Ian Craig Davies (Past 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.
Ian.Davies@europeanevaluation.org
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.
Karin.Attstroem@europeanevaluation.org
Barbara Befani
Barbara Befani is a London-based Evaluation Methodologist working as an independent consultant. She has a European PhD in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies and her interests include small-n methods, the evaluation-specific logic, analytic sociology applied to evaluation; and most recently computational methods for complex systems modelling and the study of culture and microaggressions. Barbara collaborates on a regular basis with Evaluation: the International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice; she has joined international research networks and taught evaluation approaches and methods to PhD students, NGOs, UN and EU officers. In her 6 years of professional experience, she has been involved in a DFID UK-funded research project on rigorous methods for the impact evaluation of complex development interventions; in the Independent External Evaluation of UNESCO; in other evaluations for FAO and in several EU Structural Funds evaluations and good practice studies. She has published on international journals and co-edited a methodological compendium on the evaluation of effects of EU Cohesion Policy, commissioned by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. She is a member of the American Evaluation Association and the Swedish Evaluation Society. Barbara is fluent in English, French and Italian and understands some Spanish, Swedish and German.
Barbara.Befani@europeanevaluation.org
Kim Forss
Kim Forss holds a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Economics. He is the founder/owner and manager of Andante – tools for thinking AB, and in the company works with research, teaching, and consultancy assignments in evaluation. Over the past 25 years, he has evaluated policy and strategy in the field of development cooperation, public administration, the national system of Parliamentary inquiries, as well as policies for research and development. He has worked extensively with organisational analysis, for example of the Swedish Government Offices, the national museum structure, music exports, Swedish regional administration and of several UN agencies (governance systems in UNEP, reform processes at WHO and UNDP, organisational learning in UNICEF, and a comprehensive evaluation of UNESCO). His recent research publications include a recent volume on evaluating complex policy, and he contributes to a forthcoming volume on evaluation cultures, as well as evaluation and equity. He is a member of the European Evaluation Society since 1992 and a founding member of Swedish Evaluation Society, where he has served on the Board for six years, in 2010 and 2011 as the President.
Kim.Forss@europeanevaluation.org
Liisa Horelli
Liisa Horelli, PhD in environmental psychology, is adjunct professor at the Centre of Urban and Regional Studies, Aalto University, Finland. She has carried out action research (i.e. action and its evaluation) and published articles on participatory urban and regional planning, especially from the perspective of health promotion and the enhancement of human-, and gender-friendly environments with different stakeholders. In addition, she has conducted evaluations since the 1990s on EU-funded programmes and projects. Liisa is currently President of the Finnish Evaluation Society (FES), whose mission is to promote the development of evaluation theory and practice, and to strengthen the evaluation culture in the activities of the public, private and third sector. She is fluent in Finnish, Swedish, English and French, and gets by with Italian, Spanish, German and Russian.
Liisa.Horelli@europeanevaluation.org
Co-opted members
Dear colleagues,
The EES Board is happy to welcome back Sandra Speer as co-opted EES Board member (1 year term, renewable) in view of the upcoming EES Conference in Helsinki, October 2012. Sandra will in particular take on responsibility for the organisation of the pre-conference workshops, which she very successfully organised for the 2010 Prague Conference already.
I would like to take this opportunity to state that the conference preparation can use your support. Don’t hesitate to make yourself known to me or any other Board Member if you want to make a contribution to the conference organisation.
Best regards
Bastiaan de Laat
EES Secretary General
Sandra Speer
Sandra Speer (Germany) is working as an independent evaluator based in Wiesbaden, Germany. The focus of her work is on national and international evaluation and research for public agencies and Federal Ministries. She conducts evaluations mainly in education, labour market, social policy and adjacent fields. Her areas of expertise include evaluation methodology, e.g. the relationship of different preordinate and emergent evaluation models as well as research on evaluation and evaluation capacity building. Previously she worked as a researcher and co-founded a private institute for evaluation. She served as an elected EES member of the board of directors from 2004 until 2009.
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.
Robert.Picciotto@europeanevaluation.org
