Albert Byamugisha
Mr Albert Byamugisha is currently the Commissioner for Monitoring & Evaluation in the Office of the Prime Minister, Uganda. He is in charge of overseeing the implementation of the National Monitoring and Evaluation Policy and Chairs the National Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Working Group, composed of over 80 members coming from across public service, NGOs, private sector and donor community. The Working Group has a number of sub-committees, some of which he chairs notably the sub-committee on Evaluation which is tasked with overseeing the implementation of the Government Evaluation Facility.

Ana Morice
Dr Ana Morice is a Pediatrician, Master in Public Health and Epidemiology. She is currently the Technical Director of the Costa Rican Institute for Research and Training in Health and Nutrition (INCIENSA), which coordinates the National Networks for Surveillance of Transmittable and Non Transmittable Diseases, performing epidemiologic analysis, quality assurance, applied research and training. Earlier, she coordinated collaborative research and evaluation projects as an Officer of UNICEF responsible of the “Health and Nutrition Program in Costa Rica” and as epidemiologist who worked for the Panamerican Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her main research areas are related to health policy analysis and impact evaluation of childhood and maternal health interventions and immune preventable diseases.

Ana Rosa Soares
Ana Rosa Soares is an Evaluation Specialist in the UNDP Evaluation Office where she is the coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean Region and responsible for conducting country and regional-level programmatic evaluations and supporting the development of guidance for evaluations carried out in UNDP. Prior to working for the EO, she was a Strategic Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and the focal point for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for UNDP in Brazil. Before joining the UN, Ms. Soares was an International Projects’ Manager at the Center for International Development for the State University of New York, working with bilateral and multilateral cooperation of international development programmes, projects in Africa, Europe and Latin America. She has also worked as a political advisor for national and sub-national governmental bodies; and taught undergraduate and graduate level classes in Public Administration, Political Science and International Development in Brazil and the US. Ms. Soares has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and holds a Masters’ degree in Public Administration, International Development & Comparative Studies.

Aristide Nounagnon Djidjoho
Aristide Djidjoho has been Public Policies Evaluation Bureau Coordinator in the Office of the Prime Minister (Benin) since 2009.  There, he has overseen the implementation of public policies framework, public policies strategy evaluation, the development of specific evaluation tools, evaluation of development public policies and programs, and the redaction of the National Evaluation Policy. He has also prioritised capacities building in evaluation for M&E public officers and organised the first Benin Evaluation Days. In the past he has served as Minister of State in charge of Development Assistant (MECPDEAP/Benin), Minister of Development, Economy and Finance Assistant (Benin), Deputy-Director of Audit and management controlling department – West African States Central Bank (WASCB) (Senegal), and Chief of Management Analysis Service at the Internal Audit Department – WASCB (Senegal).

Armando J. Vieira Filho
Armando Vieira is a Development Policy and Government Management Advisor of the Secretariat of Strategic Affairs - Presidency of the Republic of Brazil. Currently he is involved in a National Evaluation project. He headed the National Agenda for Public Management on promoting the Brazilian public management modernization. At Sciences-Po, Paris, he was involved in a joint project Franco-West African on good governance. He has served as organizer of the UN Special Joint Mission on Harmonization and Alignment - Paris Declaration as well MDG’s implementation in Mozambique.

Azusa Kubota
Azusa Kubota is currently an Evaluation Specialist in the Evaluation Office of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where she is responsible for conducting country-level programmatic evaluations (known as the Assessment of Development Results, in Ghana, Guyana, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, Somalia, Tunisia) and thematic evaluations and supporting the development of guidance for evaluations carried out in UNDP. She has played an instrumental role in drafting UNDP Annual Reports on Evaluation to the Executive Board (2006, 2007 and 2008) and the revision of the UNDP Evaluation Policy (20110). She is also the lead author of the Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results (2009). Prior to joining the Evaluation Office, she worked in UNDP Malawi as a programme officer, responsible for programmes, supporting trade and investment promotion and capacity building and system development in Monitoring and Evaluation for poverty reduction strategies and pro-poor programmes. She has also worked for non-profit organizations in Senegal, Lesotho and Washington D.C. where she was responsible for organizing training programmes for senior government officials in the area of international law and economic development. She holds a Masters Degree in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University in New York, U.S.A.

Edwin Cabnal
Edwin Cabnal, a geographer specialized in geographic information systems -GIS, is currently one of the lead cartographers of the Planning and Programing Secretariat of the Guatemalan Presidency– SEGEPLAN. Among other duties, he is in charge of providing cartographic support and geographic analysis for the National Planning System. The topics addressed in his daily work include the mapping of risk assessment, deforestation, land use planning, water resources, urban development, international cooperation, and public infrastructure investment, among others. In addition, he has participated in facilitating GIS training for municipal government, governmental institutions as well as local universities around the country.

Ekingo Magembe  
Ekingo Magembe is an economist with more than 9 years of experience in civil service, as well as in leading the review and designing of and implementing the Poverty Reduction Strategy Monitoring System in his country. He serves as the Poverty Monitoring Officer, whereby he leads the process of resource mobilization and utilization for poverty monitoring. In 2007, he was a member of the Team which reviewed the Strategic Plans of the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and Presidents’ Office-Public Service Management. In addition, he has also participated in the drafting of various documentations such as Economic Surveys (2007, 2008 and 2010), PRSP Annual Implementation Reports (2008/2009 and 2009/2010) and Medium Term Strategic Planning and Budgeting Manual which is being used across government.

Enkhtaivan Erdenesuren
Enkhtaivan Erdenesuren, Head of the information, research, monitoring and evaluation division of National Development and Innovation Committee of Mongolia.  Former he has worked as a principle of Mongol Business Institute; since establishment of the Committee he is working as a Head of the division. The division is responsible to carry out economic research and evaluation, to monitor implementation of the Comprehensive National Development Strategy, economic and social development priorities, Millennium Development Goals and to evaluate their results. In 2011 they have done first stage evaluation report on implementation of the Comprehensive National Development Strategy and it is ready to be adopted by Parliament of Mongolia.

Hernan Rodriguez Minier
The lawyer Hernan Rodriguez Minier has worked for more than six years in design, monitoring and evaluation of projects or related activities in several countries such as Honduras, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic. He has been a consultant for several institutions such as Foundation for Municipal Development (FUNDEMUN), Binational Border Development Program of Honduras and El Salvador, Rural Infrastructure Program of World Bank, Swiss Development Agency COSUDE. He is a member of several monitoring and evaluation networks such as Honduran Evaluation Network, does monitoring and systematization of the projects  of the Gender Evaluation Group, and the Latin American Network of Evaluation.

Henry Morales
Henry Morales is from Guatemala. Over the past 20 years he has been working on issues related to indigenous peoples, cooperation, trade and development in Central America. He is currently the coordinator of the group "Movement Tzuk Kim-pop" that brings together various non-governmental bodies. He has worked as an international consultant and researcher in various assessment processes of public policies and cooperation programs in Guatemala and Central American countries. He has written several books on cooperation, development and social movements. He holds a doctorate in economics from the UNED of Spain.

Indran Naidoo
Dr Indran Naidoo is the Deputy Director-General: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) at the Public Service Commission of South Africa (PSCSA). The PSCSA is an independent, constitutionally mandated body responsible for M&E in the country, and exercises oversight over a country of 50 million people, and a public sector comprising 1,1 million persons. Dr Naidoo holds graduate and post-graduate qualifications in English, Geography and Education, and completed his doctorate through the University of Witwatersrand, focusing on the role played by M&E in promoting good governance. He has presented paper in several international conferences, published and is an elected Board member of the International development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) and the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA). He is also a visiting faculty member at the International programme for development Evaluation Training (IPDET).

Juan Manuel Cordero González
Juan Manuel Cordero González graduated in Law from the University of Costa Rica and has postgraduate studies in Public Policy Management from the University of Chile. He studied Senior Management at INCAE and Human Rights at the University of Alcalá de Henares. He has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Political Science at the University of Costa Rica. He has been a speaker and panelist at seminars on Human Rights, Social Security and Poverty Reduction Program organized by the United Nations Development Programme, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Interamerican Institute of Human Rights. He has worked for over 25 years in public administration, always linked to the field of Human Rights and Development. Among his latest charges is Director of the Quality of Life of the Ombudsman of the People. He is the Deputy Health Minister responsible for Social Development and Fight against poverty Administration (Arias) and is currently the Deputy Minister of Social Work.

Juha I. Uitto
Juha I. Uitto is Deputy Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Evaluation Office. He joined the office as Evaluation Adviser in 2006 and has conducted and managed several programmatic and thematic evaluations, particularly in the Asia and the Pacific region. He also serves as the Executive Coordinator of the UN Evaluation Group (UNEG). In the past, Juha has worked as evaluator, researcher and consultant in international development with the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and other agencies. He was for nine years on the faculty of the United Nations University. A geographer by training, he holds an MSc from the University of Helsinki in his native Finland and PhD in Social and Economic Geography from Lund University in Sweden. He has authored a large number of articles, book chapters and reports on topics related to environment and development, natural resources management, environmental hazards, and evaluation.

Katongo Sabina Mulenga  Chifwepa’s Bio
Katongo S. M. Chifwepa is a Director in charge of Policy Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation  in the Policy Analysis  and Coordination Division at Cabinet Office in Lusaka.  Katongo worked  as a Regional Planner both at National  and Regional (provincial) level. At regional level, she was responsible for coordinating government development activities. She later moved to Cabinet Office and served as a Principal Policy Analyst were she gained experience in policy formulation/design  processes.  For eight years, Katongo was seconded to the Catholic  Secretariat: as National Secretary for the Catholic Commission for Development (Caritas), which entailed coordination of development and emergency response  programmes, mostly funded by various international donors.  During this period, she also gained vast experience in strategic planning  and programme development and management, including coordination and management of programme/project evaluations. Katongo has served on various Boards and commissions both at home and international level. Currently, she is in the process of setting up the Policy Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation  Section in the Division.

Junia Valéria Quiroga da Cunha
Is graduated in Social Sciences by the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2000), holds a doctorate in demography completed through a Partial Doctoral Fellowship (“sandwich PhD”) program of the University of California, Berkeley (2005) and a doctorate in Demography from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2006). In the Demography field, she acts primarily in the following themes: gender, poverty, HIV, race, and sexuality. Since 2005, she integrates the team of the Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger (MDS) where she currently is the Director of Evaluation of the Evaluation and Information Management Secretariat.

Melania Núñez Vargas
Melania Nuñez Vargas, is trained in the area of Sociology and a graduate of the National University of Costa Rica.  She currently holds the position of Deputy Minister of the National Planning and Economic Policy of the Government of Costa Rica; institution who among its functions is responsible for the development and evaluation of the National Development Plan.  She is the National Project Director of “Strategic Planning Strengthening (Planning, Budgeting, Evaluation) of the State of Costa Rica”, financed by AECI – UNDP, as well as the “Project Plans of Local Human Development (PCDHL) and Municipal Strategic Plans (PEM):  Innovative tools to address the asymmetries of development in Costa Rica.”  She has previously worked as a consultant in the areas of planning, evaluation and auditing for private companies, government institutions and international organisations, accumulating more than 12 years of experience in the field.

Mohamed Fadel
Mohamed Fadel, after studying business, is the founding director of the audit firm, BRACET. Cabinet Bracet is among his major achievements, along with the development of the Chart of Accounts and procedure manuals of Mauritania. In addition, he is a member of the National Order of Chartered Accountants of Mauritania, a columnist of the independent press, and Senior Vice President and Technical facilitator of the Mauritanian Association for Monitoring and Evaluation (AMSE) and the Mauritanian Network for Monitoring and Evaluation (REMS).

Prudence Kaoma
Prudence Kaoma is an M&E Specialist in the Ministry of Finance and National Planning, in Lusaka Zambia. Prudence has more than ten years of experience in project management and monitoring and evaluation. Ms Kaoma has worked in rural development and has also worked on poverty reduction programmes for international organizations.  She has also been on  a number of committees that had oversight over evaluation of various government sector programmes. Prudence has participated in development of M&E frameworks for the Fifth and Sixth National Development Plans for Zambia and is a focal point person in the Research and Development Programme coordinated by the Ministry of Finance and National Planning. The role played on the Research and Development Programme involves supporting sector ministries to identify areas of evaluation so as to promote evidence-based decision making. The other tasks Prudence is involved in relate to the provision of training in Monitoring and Evaluation for government programme implementers so as to help enhance capacities for results-based management.

Mohammed Najib Guedira
Mohammed Najib Guedira is a specialist in the social economy and the economic and financial analysis of the social sectors. He has been the director of the Social Development Agency since July 2000. Previously, he was an International Consultant with the World Bank, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He has numerous years of leadership and experience working with social economy and social problems (health, housing, education), insurance and welfare, "sustainable development" and poverty.

Mohamed Mouime
Mohamed Mouime has been the Director of Information Systems division at the National Observatory for Human Development since 2007. Prior to that he had been the Head of Division in the Ministry of Economy and Finance (1994-2007) and the Head of Division in the High Planning Commission (1980-1993.) His accomplishments include: Analysis of the effects of exchange rates on foreign trade.; a paper on the efficiency wage and the alignment of wages to prices; development of a model of an econometric model for developing medium-term projections and simulations of economic policies; an analysis of the effects of enhancement of minimum wages on the economy; a publication, together with an article on "National-Regional Integrated Model of the Moroccan economy" in the magazine "Region & Development"; and a contribution to a study on the sources of growth in the Moroccan economy. He has worked on Human Development in Morocco as elements in a national strategy. He has contributed to the development of a report on the pattern of economic development of regions in Morocco as well as to the development of the reference price for Morocco's economy based on the input - output tables of 1998.

Nadira El Guermai
From 1983 to 1987 Nadira El Guermai served as Assistant and Research Fellow at the Chair of Psychology at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland. From 1987 to 2005, she joined the Ministry of Equipment as a unit responsible for training where she was was in charge of the conceptualization, supervision, monitoring and evaluation of continous training plans, as well as the set up of a framework allowing the integration of newly recruited senior executives preparing to take positions of responsibility; During the years 1998 and 1999, she was a member of staff of the Special Education Training Commission headed by the Council of His Majesty the King. In 2005, she joined the staff of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH), the Ministry of Interior as Assistant National Coordinator; On January 22, 2009, she was appointed by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, Governor, National Coordinator of INDH. She is also president of an association whose aim is the support of troubled youth.

Raphael T. Waida
Raphael T. Waida has over 20 years work experience in the areas of Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring and Evaluation of development interventions particularly in the sectors of public service, agriculture, and Health. The main areas of work include preparation of Baseline surveys, Evaluations and Impact Assessments using participatory approaches. Other areas include undertaking financial and economic viability studies in irrigation sub-sector as well as Preparation of performance reports. Additionally, he has been a member of a Technical Working Group that was responsible for rationalization and harmonization process of monitoring, evaluation and reporting arrangements across the Government of Tanzania. Furthermore, he has undertaken research work in a form of short term consultancies. He is conversant with Computer Application Packages for data analysis such as SPSS, Spreadsheet programmes such as MS Excel and Word Processing packages such as MS Word. He is currently an employee of the Tanzania’s President’s Office – Public Service Management as Assistant Director – Monitoring and Evaluation.

Soma De Silva
Soma De Silva is a former Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Officer UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia. She is a founder member and two times past president of the Sri Lanka Evaluation Association and the current president of the International Organisation for Collaboration in Evaluation (IOCE). She has initiated and is currently coordinating the project ‘Teaching Evaluation in South Asia’ which is designed to establish evaluation training at post graduate diploma level in academic institutions in South Asia and is sponsored by the International Development Research Centre. For nearly twenty years she has worked in the field of evaluation, commissioning, organizing and supporting evaluations of national development programmes, she initiated and coordinated the South Asia Evaluation volume published in 2008.

Velayuthan Sivagnanasothy
Velayuthan Sivagnanasothy is the Secretary, Ministry of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development of the Government of Sri Lanka. Prior to this, he served as the Director General of the Department of Foreign Aid and Budget Monitoring of the Ministry of Plan Implementation for the Government of Sri Lanka. He has more than 25 years of senior-level public sector experience in development planning, management, and monitoring and evaluation at the national level. He led the institutionalization of Managing for Development Results in Sri Lanka, established the national electronic Project Monitoring System, undertook many on-going and ex-post evaluations of nationally important development projects and programmes and established the web based Evaluation Information System in the Government.  He currently serves as a Vice-Chair of the Asia Pacific Community of Practice on Managing for Development Results (MfDR) and Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Capacity Development for Development Effectiveness (CDDE).  He serves as a Resource Person in many national and international forums including the International Programme for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) of the University of Carleton, Ottawa, Canada. He is also a Governing Council Member of Sri Lanka Evaluation Association.

Yonghe Zheng
Prof. Yonghe Zheng is a management official of science fund and policy analyst in basic research with more than 15 years of experience. He is Deputy Director of Bureau of Planning, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and Director of Evaluation Office in NSFC and in charge of management of Evaluation Division in Bureau of Planning. He has been working for Funding and Management Performance Evaluation as one of the designers and as a coordinator with the National Center for Science and Technology Evaluation since 2008. He has been in NSFC since 1996, once he was assistant to President Cunhao Zhang for 4 years, Division Director in Bureau of International Cooperation for 3 years, and a Chinese Council in the Consulate General of the PRC in San Francisco for 3 years, and a program official for the National Key Basic Research Program in Joint Office of NSFC and Ministry of Science and Technology for 3 years.