Speakers

Robert Axelrod

He is best known for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation which has been cited in over three thousand articles. Among his honors and awards are membership in the National Academy of Sciences, a five year MacArthur Prize Fellowship, the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences for an outstanding contribution to science, and the National Academy of Sciences Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War.

His most recent books are The Complexity of Cooperation (1997), and Harnessing Complexity (with Michael D. Cohen, 2000).

Recently Axelrod has consulted and lectured on promoting cooperation and harnessing complexity for the United Nations, the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Defense, and various organizations serving health care professionals, business leaders, and K-12 educators.

Kwesi Botchwey
Director
Africa Research and Programs
CID

Kwesi Botchwey is the Director of Africa Research and Programs at CID and was the Minister of Finance in Ghana from 1982 to 1995. As Minister of Finance, he was key to the implementation of one of the most far-reaching economic reform programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. He holds a Bachelors of Law degree (LLB) from the University of Ghana, a Masters degree in Law (LLM) from Yale Law School and a Doctorate degree from the University of Michigan Law School. He has taught at the University of Zambia, the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), and the University of Ghana. Dr Botchwey is a member of a Panel of High Level Personalities on African Development set up by the UN Secretary-General and has served as the chairman of the Economic Committee of the Global Coalition for Africa since its inception. He also serves on a member of other important boards, including those of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) He has consulted widely for a number of international institutions, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the UNDP, UNCTAD and the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Margaret Catley-Carlson

Margaret Catley-Carlson is Chair, Director or advisor to many international organizations: The Global Water Partnership (Chair), The Water Resources Advisory Committee for Suez: Paris (Chair), the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa (Vice-Chair), Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International in the UK (Chair, Board of Governors). Commissioner for the Commission on Water for the 21st Century and for the International Advisory Committee - 2020 Vision, of International Food Policy Research. Mrs. Catley-Carlson was president of CIDA, the Canadian International Development Agency (1983-89), and of the Population Council (91-99). She has been Deputy Minister of Health in Canada, and Deputy Director (Operations) of UNICEF, with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Jean-Claude Faure
Chairman
Development Assistance Committee
Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development

Jean-Claude Faure, Chairman, Development Assistance Committee, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Elected in 1999, M Faure was previously Principal Private Secretary to the State Secretary with responsibility for Co-operation and the French speaking world. Previous assignments included Principal Adviser to the Global Coalition for Africa and Director of the Development Directorate in the Ministry of Co-operation and Development.

Theuns Eloff

Born in 1955, Theuns Eloff holds degrees in law and theology from the University of Potchefstroom. As a student, he was SRC president for three years and president of the national body of Afrikaans students in 1979. He served as minister of religion at a congregation at the University of Pretoria for 6 years, completing a Doctorate in Theology in political ethics.

In the wake of difficulties resulting from his inclusion in the delegation which, in July 1987, met with representatives of the ANC in Dakar, he left the ministry in 1989 joining the Consultative Business Movement (CBM), a business organisation facilitating an effective transition. As Executive Director he was involved in facilitating the Peace Process leading to the signing of the National Peace Accord in 1991. He headed Process and Secretarial Services at Codesa (Convention for a Democratic South Africa) and headed the Administration of the Multi-Party Negotiating Process.

After a stint as Deputy Executive Director of the Transitional Executive Council (TEC), he returned to CBM in May 1994. He received the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World award for 1995 from Junior Chamber International. The World Economic Forum acknowledged him as one of 100 "Global Leaders for Tomorrow" in 1996. In February 1995, Theuns Eloff was appointed as Chief Executive of the National Business Initiative, an organisation with 170 member companies, enhancing business' contribution to SA's success in the socio-economic development field.

Eloff is married to Suzette, a life style consultant and freelance singer and they have two daughters: Cecile (20) and Tania (25).

Inge Kaul
Director
Office of Development Studies (UNDP)

Inge Kaul is Director of the Office of Development Studies at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). From 1990 to 1995 she served as Director of the Human Development Report Office at UNDP, where she coordinated a team of authors producing the annual Human Development Report. Before that she held senior positions at UNDP. She has extensive research experience in developing countries, and is author of a number of publications and reports on development financing and aid.

Melinda Kimble

Melinda Kimble became the Sr. Vice President for Programs at the UN Foundation in May of 2000, overseeing program areas concerning health, population, the environment and peace/ human rights. Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as a State Department Foreign Service Officer, attaining the rank of Minister-Counselor. She served in policy-level positions in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, overseeing multilateral development issues and debt policy; in the Bureau of Oceans, International Environment and Scientific Affairs (OES), leading environmental negotiations (e.g, Climate Change Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 1997). Her assignments abroad include Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt and Tunisia. She speaks French and Arabic and holds two masters degrees: Economics (University of Denver) and MPA (Harvard's Kennedy School of Government). She is married to a career AID officer, James R. Phippard (retired) and has four grown stepchildren.

Robert Klitgaard
Dean and Ford Distinguished Professor
International Development

Robert Klitgaard is the Dean of the RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, California, where he is also the Ford Distinguished Professor of International Development and Security.

He previously served as Professor of Economics at the University of Natal, Durban; Lester Crown Professor of Economics at Yale's School of Management; and Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he also served half-time as Special Assistant to Harvard's President Derek Bok.

Klitgaard has been an advisor to many governments on economic strategy and institutional reform, and his consulting work and research have taken him to 30 countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. He has been a consultant to the White House, the World Bank, the IMF, OECD, USAID, the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the Development Bank of Southern Africa, and the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations. In addition to many articles, he has written seven books:

Klitgaard received A.B., M.P.P., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He is married and has four children. He speaks fluent Spanish, fair French and Portuguese, and rust Urdu.

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Frank Cookingham
Head, Evaluation
World Vision International

I am 60 years old, male, Caucasian, U.S. citizen, married with three grown sons and six grandchildren, lay leader in the Chino United Methodist Church. I graduated from Michigan State Univesity with a B.A. in social science in 1963; and from Western Michigan University with an Ed.D. in community education in 1980. I began working in the Evaluation Department at World Vision International in 1985; since 1988 I have directed the small department. I have facilitated community development evaluation teams or monitoring and evaluation training for field staff in approximately 30 countries, primarily in Asia and Africa. In my evaluation work I seek to find an appropriate balance between meeting information needs of various stakeholder groups, and enabling field staff and residents in project communities to think more evaluatively about community development by participating in the processes of data collection and analysis.

Frans Leeuw
Professor
Policy and Program Evaluation, Utrecht University

Frans L. Leeuw, is the President of the European Evaluation Society (EES) and also Professor, Policy and Program Evaluation, Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

Sandra M Libunao
Development Management Consultant

Sandra M Libunao is a Development Management Consultant. Previously she was Director for the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP)-- a grant-making and implementing foundation established by Phillippine businesses contributing 1/5 of 1 percent of gross income. While with PBSP and now as a Consultant she works as a facilitator, resource person, case study writer and evaluator of partnership programs specially in SouthEast Asia.

Jorge Braga de Macedo
Professor

Professor Jorge Braga de Macedo was educated in France, Portugal and the United States, where he gained a PhD from Yale University in 1979. He was appointed President of the OECD Development Centre end 1999. Professor of Economics at the Nova University, and Director at the Institute for Tropical Research (both in Lisbon), he is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass., and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. Jorge Braga de Macedo served as Portugal's Minister of Finance between 1991 and 1993, was a member of the Portuguese Parliament from 1991 to 1995, Director for National Economics at the European Commission from 1988 to 1991, Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University from 1980 to 1986. More on his website: www.fe.unl.pt/~jbmacedo.

Khalid Malik
Director
Evalutions Office
United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP)

Khalid Malik, is Director of the Evaluation Office at the United Nations Development Programme since 1997 following his assignment as UN Representative in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Educated as an economist at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Essex, and Punjab, he has held a variety of key managerial, technical and policy positions in UNDP.

Since 1998 Mr. Malik has been instrumental in the introduction of results based management (RBM) in UNDP, which is emerging as a critical factor in the reform of the organisation. Jointly with the World Bank and key bilateral organisations, he has helped shape the emerging evaluation agenda and contributed to the global debate on the development effectiveness of aid agencies. Mr. Malik chairs the UN Inter Agency Group on Evaluation.

He has edited books and authored articles on a range of topics including poverty and inequality, science and technology, culture, evaluation and results based management.

Douglass C. North
Senior Fellow
Hoover Institution

Douglass C. North is the Hoover Institution's Bartlett Burnap Senior Fellow. His current research activities include research on property rights; transaction costs; economic organization in history; a theory of the state; the free rider problem; ideology; growth of government; economic and social change; and a theory of institutional change.

North received a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1993. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in July 1996, and was installed as the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis in October 1996.

He was appointed Luce Professor of Law and Liberty, in the Department of Economics at Washington University, in the Fall of 1983, and was Director of the Center in Political Economy from December, 1984, through June, 1990. In April of 1985, he was appointed editor of the Cambridge Series of books and monographs on "The Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions."

North's appointments at Washington University in St. Louis follow thirty-two years at the University of Washington-Seattle, where he was Director of the Institute for Economic Research for five years and Chairman for twelve years. He was the Peterkin Professor of Political Economics at Rice University in the fall of 1979, Pitt Professor at Cambridge University in England in 1981-82, and a Visiting Fellow of the center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 1987-88. He was editor of the Journal of Economic History for five years and President of the Economic History Association in 1972. He was a twenty-year member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research until 1986.

In 1987, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has lectured at most major American and European universities and many Asian universities. He is the author of more than fifty articles and eight books.

That part of his research which focused on the formation of political and economic institutions and the consequences of these institutions on the performance of economics through time was published in Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, Cambridge University Press.

North received his B.A. in 1942 and his Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of California, Berkeley. He also served as a U.S. Merchant Marine from 1942 to 1946 and was an instructor in celo-navigation from 1944 to 1946.

Larry Prusak
Executive Director
The Institute for Knowledge Management

Larry Prusak is an Executive Director of the Institute for Knowledge Management. He has extensive research and consulting experience, within the U.S. and internationally, in helping organizations leverage and optimize their information and knowledge resources.

A respected authority in his field, Larry has lectured and been published widely. His book, Managing Information Strategically (John Wiley & Sons, 1994), co-authored with James McGee, is a basic text on the role of information in gaining competitive advantage. Some recent articles include "Myth of Information Overload" (International Journal of Information Management, 1995), "Information Politics" (Sloan Management Review, Fall 1993), "Blow up the Corporate Library" (International Journal of Information Management, 1993), "Knowledge and Risk Management" (California Management Review, Spring 1996), "Eleven Sins of Knowledge Management" (California Management Review, Spring 1998) and "Investing In Social Capital" (Harvard Business Review, 2001). He has recently co-authored two books with Tom Davenport: Information Ecology (Oxford University Press, 1997), and Working Knowledge (Harvard Business School Press, 1997). Working Knowledge has sold over 60,000 copies and has been translated into 12 languages. His most recent book, In Good Company: The Role of Social Capital in Organizations, was published in 2000 by Harvard Business School Press.

Patricia Rogers is Director of the Program for Public Sector Evaluation, an interdisciplinary research and development unit in evaluation, based in the Faculty of Applied Science at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Her particular interest is building the evaluation capacity of service delivery and policy agencies. Recent projects include agricultural research and extension, maternal and child health, community policing, and higher education. Her most recent publications have focused on program theory (causal models) in evaluation for evidence-based policy, accountability, and organisational learning. Dr Rogers has served as Editor of the Australasian Evaluation Society's "Evaluation News & Comment", and is a member of the Editorial Boards of "Evaluation ", "New Directions in Evaluation" and "The American Journal of Evaluation"

Dr. Nafis Sadik, M.D.

Dr. Nafis Sadik, a national of Pakistan, was educated at Loreto College (Calcutta) and received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Dow Medical College (Karachi). She served her internship in gynaecology and obstetrics at City Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and completed further studies at The Johns Hopkins University where she held the post of research fellow in physiology at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario (Canada). Dr. Sadik began her professional life as a physician, practicing obstetrics and gynecology in rural communities in Pakistan. She was Pakistan's Director-General of the Central Family Planning Council. In 1971, she joined the United Nations as technical adviser to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and in 1973 became Chief of its Programme Division. From 1982-1987 she served as Assistant Executive Director.

In 1987, Dr. Sadik was appointed Executive Director of UNFPA, with the rank of Under-Secretary-General, becoming one of the highest ranking women in the UN system and the first woman, in the history of the United Nations, to lead one of its major voluntarily-funded programmes. Dr. Sadik is a dynamic leader and guiding force in the field of international maternal and child health, reproductive and sexual health, including family planning. Under her able leadership as Secretary-General of the landmark International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo in 1994, the approach to reproductive health that includes empowering women through education and economic opportunity was unanimously agreed to by the international community. Dr. Sadik was the first female recipient of the Hugh Moore Award in 1976, named after a pioneer in the United States credited with calling attention to the world population crisis. She was cited for her leadership in the family planning field as well as for her leadership in encouraging other women to find careers in the population field.

Dr. Sadik is a member of the Association of Pakistani Physicians in the United States. She was elected to the 1988 Fellowship ad eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the United Kingdom.

Her contribution to improving the health of women and children of the global community continues to bring her many international awards and honours, most recent of which was her selection as the Laureate, in the individual category, of the United Nations Population Award for her outstanding contribution to the awareness of population issues. Dr. Sadik is currently Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General, and has been named an Eminent Person for the International Year of Volunteers (IYV). Dr. Sadik continues her prestigious career by lending support and sharing her expertise with several Boards of Directors of organizations sharing mutual interests.

Her numerous publications are in the areas of reproductive health and family, population and development, women, and gender and development. Among these are: Population: The UNFPA Experience (New York University Press, 1984); Population Policies and Programmes: Lessons Learned from Two Decades of Experience, (New York University Press, 1991); and Making a Difference: Twenty-five Years of UNFPA Experience, (Banson, London, United Kingdom, 1994).

She is married to Azhar Sadik, businessman (retired). They have three children and two adopted children.

Richard Sandbrook
BSc, FCA, OBE

Education

• BSc (Hons), Biological Sciences,
  University of East Anglia, 1969
• Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, 1973
• Global 500 Environment Award 1985
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, 1988
• Order of the British Empire (OBE), 1990

Richard Sandbrook has over twenty-five years experience in the fields of conservation and environmental sciences. He also has broad experience in development issues. He was a co-founder of Friends of the Earth (FoE.UK) in the early 1970s. Since participating in the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment he has been closely involved with international policies for the environment. In 1976 he joined the London Office of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); first to direct a marine programme, then as Vice President for Policy (1983), Executive Director for Europe (1986), and Executive Director overall (1989 - Aug 1999). Since leaving IIED he has acted as a freelance consultant. His current portfolio includes acting as the coordinator to the Minerals Mining and Sustainable development project (see www.IIED.org\mmsd) as a non executive Director of the Eden Project, various UK Board responsibilities including Vice chairman of Plantlife UK, and as the Chair of the IUCN international planning committee.

FoE and IIED have together given Richard Sandbrook extensive experience of the issues and politics of development and the environment. He has been continuously involved in the financial and personnel management of a wide range of practical environmental projects in both Europe and developing countries. These have been concerned with the agricultural, forestry and fisheries sectors, with environmental economics and urban poverty. He also has many years' experience in the affairs of bilateral and multilateral donor agencies and their procedures. Recently he has worked closely with private sector firms from the mining, oil and gas and the forestry and paper sectors. He has also been a founder member of several organisations including Friends of the Earth International, Earthscan Publications Ltd., the Environment Liaison Center International, UNEP-UK and the European Environment Bureau.

He has served on a variety of Boards and committees that include the UK Round Table for Sustainable Development (1994 - 98), the IUCN Council for Western Europe (1994 - 2000) and the Earth Council Institute Costa Rica (1993 - 98). He has served on several Government Delegations to intergovernmental conferences and regularly attends OECD meetings. He is a member of the Green Globe group that advises the UK Foreign Secretary and the Ministers for the environment and international development. He is an advisor to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on environmental issues. He holds a variety of Directorships/advisory positions for UK based charities and trusts including Plantlife, the British Council, the Eden project and Forum for the Future.

James Sanders
Professor of Education and Associate Director
The Evaluation Center,
Western Michigan University

James R. Sanders is Professor of Education and Associate Director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University. He received his master's degree in educational research from Bucknell University and his PhD in educational research and evaluation from the University of Colorado. He has served as a visiting professor at St. Patrick's College (in Dublin, Ireland), Utah State University, and the University of British Columbia. He is coauthor of Educational Evaluation: Theory and Practice (1973), Practices and Problems in Competency-Based Measurement (1979), Educational Evaluation: Alternative Approaches and Practical Guidelines (1987), Program Evaluation (1997), and author of Evaluating School Programs (2nd ed., 2000). He is author or coauthor of numerous articles, monographs, and technical reports in the area of program evaluation. His articles have appeared in Review of Educational Research, Educational Researcher, Educational and Psychological Measurement, Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of School Psychology, New Directions for Program Evaluation, Evaluation News, Educational Technology, Journal of Research and Development in Education, Educational Measurement, and American Journal of Evaluation.

Dr. Sanders has served as director or codirector of training institutes in evaluation for the American Educational Research Association, the American Evaluation Association, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and the Western Michigan University Evaluation Center. He has served as a member of the board of directors for the Evaluation Network and the American Evaluation Association, and standing committees of the American Educational Research Association, the National Council on Measurement in Education, the National Science Foundation, Phi Delta Kappa, Independent Sector, and the United Way of America. He has directed research and evaluation projects funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Education, National Science Foundation, and several state agencies. He has consulted with numerous school districts, private industries, instructional businesses, government agencies, research and development corporations, community agencies, and major universities. During 1988-1998, Dr. Sanders served as chair of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, a coalition of 16 professional organizations concerned with the quality of evaluations done in education. He was elected by the American Evaluation Association to serve as President-elect in 2000, President in 2001, and Past President in 2002. In 2000 he received the Distinguished Service Award from Western Michigan University and the Friend of Evaluation Award from the Michigan Association for Evaluation.

Nicoletta Stame
Professor, Social Policy
University of Rome

Interested in public sector reform, small firms and socio-economic development of Southern Italy. Currently researching on evaluation theory, and evaluation role in improving government performance.

Co-founder and first president of AIV (Italian Evaluation Association); member of the board of European Evaluation Association; member of the Editorial Advisory Board of "Evaluation". Evaluated Italian government programs for enterprise creation and for technological innovation in declining industrialized areas; European Union programs for social cohesion.

Among here recent Publications:

• 2000: "Household and Small Business across the Disciplines", in Festshrift in Honor of
  Immanuel Wallerstein, ed. by G. Arrighi and W. Goldfrank, special issue of Journal of World-Systems Research, vol. XI, n. 2
• 1999: "Small and medium enterprise aid programs: intangible effects and evaluation
  practice", in Evaluation and Program Planning, vol. 22, n. 1
• 1998: "Evaluation in Italy. Experience and Prospects", in Evaluation, vol. 4, n. 1
• 1998: L'esperienza della valutazione, Roma, SEAM

Elliot Stern
Editor
International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice

Elliot Stern established and leads the Evaluation Development and Review Unit at the Tavistock Institute, which undertakes evaluation and assessment assignments, including organisational reviews, and conducts research to improve evaluation methods. He has particular domain interests in education and training, economic and regional development and innovations via information technologies. He has directed major European and UK public sector projects and acted as consultant to OECD and the European Commission on evaluation design in relation to local development, social policy and vocational education.

His international work has included syntheses of evaluation findings regarding tribal development projects for IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development); reviews of employment policies in rural areas for the New Zealand government; reviewing the System-Wide reviews of CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research); a review of UNESCO's international development co-operation evaluation systems; ex-ante evaluations of voluntary service programmes for the European Union (EU); evaluation of the 'Partnership Principle' in the EU Structural Funds; and advisory work for a number of French public sector agencies.

He is the editor of Evaluation, the International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice and a Council Member of the UK Evaluation Society. He has been a member of the Board of the European Evaluation Society since 1997, Vice President 2000 - 2001 and is President designate 2002 - 2003.

Diane Stone
Reader
Department of Politics and International Studies,
University of Warwick

Diane Stone is Reader in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick and a Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. She teaches in the area of comparative public policy, globalisation and governance. Research has focussed on think tanks and policy advice. Her first book is Capturing the Political Imagination: Think Tanks and the Policy Process (London: Frank Cass, 1996). A co-edited book with Manchester University Press, Think Tanks Across Nations: A Comparative Approach appeared in 1998 and a second edition is in progress. An edited volume Banking on Knowledge: The Genesis of the Global Development Network was published December 2000 by Routledge. Other research interests include the influence of ideas and expertise on policy, the political economy of higher education; the role of non-state actors in domestic, regional and global affairs; conceptual developments in the study of policy networks; and the political process of lesson-drawing and policy transfer.

Warren Van Wicklin
Consultant
International Finance Corporation

Warren Van Wicklin is currently the lead consultant on the IFC Safeguard Policies Review in the office of the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman. Immediately prior to joining IFC he was a staff consultant in the Social Development Division of the Asian Development Bank. From 1992 to 2001 he was a consultant in the World Bank. Most recently he completed more than four years of service in OED as task manager of the OED Participation Process Review. In 1998 he was task manager and completed the OED evaluation, entitled "Recent Experience with Involuntary Resettlement", published by Transaction Publishers. During his tenure in ENV from 1993-96, Warren was a member of the Bankwide Resettlement Review Task Force, established and maintained the Bankwide Resettlement Database, and contributed to several annual reports, articles, and training courses on involuntary resettlement. During 1992 Warren performed much of the data collection and analysis that underpinned the report, "The Contribution of People's Participation: Evidence from 121 Rural Water Supply Projects", one of the case studies of the Participatory Development Learning Group. Prior to joining the Bank he was an independent consultant to USAID and numerous government agencies and foundations. Warren has written several articles on participatory development and involuntary resettlement. He is a US citizen. BA, University of Michigan (1977); PhD, MIT (1990)

Rob D. Van Den Berg
Director, Policy and Operations Evaluation Dpt.
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Rob D. van den Berg is Director of the Policy and Operations Evaluation Department of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Over the past twenty years he has held various positions in Dutch development co-operation. At the end of the eighties he was the executive secretary of the Netherlands' National Advisory Council for Development Co-operation. Successively he was responsible for the Dutch Research Programme and for Dutch development co-operation in Suriname. He has co-edited three books on development and has published numerous articles on policy formulation, research and development co-operation and the historical dimension of development, amongst others.