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Indran A.Naidoo — Director Indran A.Naidoo

Indran has overseen a significant reform of the evaluation function at UNDP moving it towards full independence, enhanced credibility and an expansion in the scope and coverage of UNDP work. Through the professional model under his tenure, the unit has seen IEO take the lead and full responsibility for its work at the global and country level, with changes evident in the methodologies and approaches towards country-level and corporate assessments, quality assessment of decentralized evaluations and national evaluation capacity. The new policy established an Audit and Evaluation Advisory Committee (AEAC) and an International Evaluation Advisory Panel (IEAP) to enhance the credibility and utility of IEO work. He has substantial experience in evaluation thought leadership, has served as instructor (IPDET) and panelist globally on the subject, and sees evaluation as a key accountability tool for improving performance and governance at all levels, and advancing the development agenda. Active in the evaluation community, he has been a board member of the South African M&E Association, former board member of IDEAS, and led conferences at the IEO and elsewhere.

Arild Hauge — Deputy Director Arild Hauge

Arild Hauge is the Deputy Director of IEO. He also serves as the Executive Coordinator of the UN Evaluation Group (UNEG). Following an initial private sector career based in Norway, Arild Hauge joined the UN in 1990 as a JPO in Zimbabwe. Subsequently serving as Head of External Assistance Unit in Swaziland’s Ministry of Planning, he then joined the Office of Evaluation and Strategic Planning at UNDP in New York as an Evaluation Advisor in 1996. Between 1999 and 2005 he was an independent M&E Advisor to various UN agencies and the World Bank. During this time he did the initial development of UNDP’s Outcome Evaluation Guidelines. He was a partner co-recipient of the World Bank President’s 2002 Team Excellence award for his contribution as M&E Advisor to the Uganda Poverty Reduction Strategy Credit (PRSC) programme sponsored by the Operations Evaluation Department. For nearly 10 years before joining UNDP’s Independent Evaluation Office as Deputy Director in May 2015, Arild Hauge served as Chief of Section at the Inspection and Evaluation Division of the UN Secretariat’s (OIOS), supervising a range of thematic and programme evaluations considered by the Secretary-General, the General Assembly and specialized oversight bodies.

Alan Fox — Chief of Section Alan Fox

Alan Fox is Chief of Section for corporate evaluation at the Independent Evaluation Office. He came to UNDP in 2009 after 25 years’ experience as a government official and consultant. He began his government career in 1984, serving as Executive Assistant to the Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, and then Associate Assistant Administrator for Water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to joining UNDP, Mr. Fox served as Vice President for Consulting, and Regional Director – Southern Africa, for the Infrastructure Division of the international engineering and consulting company Pöyry PLC (Finland). His portfolio of project management and evaluation assignments spans 50 countries.

Fumika Ouchi — Chief of Section Fumika Ouchi

Fumika Ouchi is Chief of Section for independent country programme evaluations at the UNDP IEO. Prior to joining the UNDP, Fumika worked for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Bank, UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Office of Internal Oversight Services at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Naturally curious about why things work (and don’t work), she has enjoyed evaluation work for the past 20 years. Particular milestones in her learing included, e.g. eradication of tsetse flies from the Sub-Saharan Africa, counter-narcotics efforts in Central Asia, global human trafficking issues, and mechanics of nuclear safeguards. At UNDP, Fumika is engaged in country-by-country reporting on why our work matters in the context of conflict and crisis, ensuring equity and dignity, and sustainable human development. Served as Executive Coordinator for the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) in 2015-2017.

Heather Bryant — Chief of Section Heather Bryant

Heather Bryant is Chief of Section for capacity development and quality assessment. Before joining the IEO in 2012, Heather worked for UNDP Nepal, heading the Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness Unit, where she was responsible for country programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, with a special emphasis on human rights, gender equality and social exclusion issues. She also facilitated the development by Nepal’s National Planning Commission of a Poverty Monitoring and Analysis System. She has designed and led many workshops and training courses on monitoring and evaluation for government officials, UN staff and partners. Prior to joining UNDP, Heather conducted research at the University of Lausanne’s Institute of Geography in Switzerland.

Ximena Rios — Chief of Section Ximena Rios

Ximena Rios is responsible for leading the Operations Section in order to support IEO’s evaluations and other intiatives, as instructed by the Deputy. She also serves as IEO’s Learning Manager. Prior to joining IEO, she served 5 years in UNDP Chile as Operations Manager, leading the County Office operations to be well known as one of the best offices in UNDP’s regional operations, and is a member of UNDP’s Candidate Pool for Deputy Resident Representatives (Program and Operations). She started her professional career in the founding team of Microsoft in Chile, and subsequently worked for Oracle and Ernst and Young where she developed strong managerial and project management skills. She is a certified Ontological Coach.

Vijayalakshmi Vadivelu — Evaluation Advisor Vijayalakshmi Vadivelu

Vijayalakshmi Vadivelu is an Evaluation Advisor with the UNDP IEO. She has 25 years of experience in international development policy, evaluation, and research. She has led and managed evaluations of development and crisis related programmes at the global and country levels. She recently carried out an evaluation of contribution of global and regional human development reports to public policy process and UNDP’s contribution to anti-corruption and addressing drivers of corruption. She is a visiting professor at the Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University, New Jersey. Prior to joining UNDP, she conducted research on decentralization issues and gender in development at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India.

Ana Rosa Soares — Evaluation Advisor Ana Rosa Soares

Ana Rosa Soares, Evaluation Advisor at IEO, responsible for conducting country, regional and global thematic and programmatic evaluations. She has 22 year of experience in international development, 13 of which mostly dedicated to evaluation and national evaluation capacity development. Prior, she was a Strategic Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and expert on Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for UNDP in Brazil. Before joining the UN, Ms. Soares was an International Development Advisor at the Center for International Development of SUNY and other organizations in Brazil, working with bilateral and multilateral cooperation projects in Africa, Europe and Latin America.

Roberto La Rovere — Evaluation Advisor Roberto La Rovere

Roberto La Rovere, PhD, Development Economist and Evaluation Advisor at the IEO of UNDP. He manages country programme and other evaluations, mostly in French and Spanish-speaking countries, and since 2015 has led the process, planning, and methodology of Independent Country Programme Evaluations and their reform. He brings more than 15 years impact assessment and evaluation experience, including in research for development, having worked for a decade in the CGIAR system (research in agriculture and environment for development) based in the Middle East, in Central and Latin America, and in various locations in Africa. He is author of more than 70 publications, half of which are international peer-reviewed journal papers as well as books and book chapters in International Development.

Richard Jones — Evaluation Advisor Richard Jones

Richard Jones, Evaluation Advisor at IEO UNDP has taken the lead in support to Decentralised Evaluation since joining IEO in 2016. This has included a revision of the quality assessment system as well as analysis of the UNDP decentralized evaluation plans and training of country office M&E focal points. During his 15 years in Development he has most recently worked as a technical advisor in local governance for DANIDA in Vietnam and DfID in Tanzania develoiping planning, budgeting and M&E systems for local governments. In addition to his work in systems strengthening he has undertaken numerous programme/ project and country office evaluations for a number of organisations.

Deqa Musa Ibrahim — Evaluation Specialist Deqa Ibrahim Musa

Deqa Musa has extensive experience in international development assistance/cooperation programme design, monitoring and evaluation. Before joining IEO, she worked in the UN system at country level in diverse policy settings in Africa and Asia. As M&E Specialist with UNICEF she was responsible for strengthening internal and host country M&E systems. She managed large projects with national governments aimed at strengthening capacities to collect, analyse and disseminate strategic data on MDGs. She worked with governments and academia in strengthening evaluation capacities. She successfully advocated for separating programme management and evaluation in UNICEF offices she worked in. At IEO, she undertakes country evaluations.

Oanh Nguyen — Evaluation Specialist Oanh Nguyen

Oanh Nguyen is responsible for managing and conducting independent country-level evaluations, assessing UNDP’s contribution to development results at country level. She also served as the Executive Coordinator ad interim for the United Nations Evaluation Group from September 2014 to April 2015. Prior to joining IEO, she worked for more than 7 years at the Independent Office of Evaluation of the International Fund for Agricultural Development in Rome, Italy, where she was involved in numerous project-level, country-level and corporate-level thematic evaluations, as well as evaluation syntheses.

Yogesh Bhatt — Evaluation Specialist Yogesh Bhatt

Yogesh has over 20 years of international development experience in leading and managing evidence-based policy, program, country and performance evaluations, research studies and impact assessments. Prior to joining IEO, Yogesh led the evaluation programme of the Commonwealth Secretariat in London contributing to planning and policy decisions, organisational learning and change at the Secretariat. Earlier at the International Water Management Institute (CGIAR)- in South Africa and Sri Lanka- he was responsible for evaluation and impact assessment of agriculture and natural resource development projects in Africa. At CARE International in India, he established the Design, Monitoring, Evaluation and Organisational Learning Unit providing strategic, advisory and technical support to all country programs. Yogesh enjoys working on collaborative programs in multi-cultural settings and has lived in India, Sri Lanka, South Africa and UK, and worked with partner organisations in over fifty countries in Asia, Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific.

Anish Pradhan — IT Specialist Anish Pradhan

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Jin Zhang — UNEG Specialist Jin Zhang

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