Göran Arvidsson, PhD, is Associate Professor at the School of Business, Stockholm University, and since 1988 Research Director at SNS, the Swedish Center for Business and Policy Studies. He was Head of Secretariat of the Expert Group on Public Finance, the Swedish Ministry of Finance, 1984-1988. Before this he was Director of the Agency Management Control Development Division of the Swedish National Audit Office. At SNS he has been in charge of a number of policy oriented research projects concerning for example the Swedish healthcare and school systems, immigration and workplace diversity, comparative study of management in business and government, life and work of men and women, and dynamic innovation systems. He has promoted evaluation in Swedish national and local government since the late 1970's by lecturing to parlamentarians, officials and staff. He is a member of INTEVAL since its start in 1986.
More information on www.sns.se and www.fek.su.se

Per Oyvind Bastoe, a sociologist from the University of Oslo, Norway, is currently Principal Results Management Specialist in the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines. He has previously held senior positions in the World Bank and in the Norwegian Government Administration. He has also been assistant professor and researcher in social science. He has published several books, articles and reports on organizational development, results-based management, evaluation, planning and social policy.

Jean-Claude Barbier, sociologist, is senior researcher at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) and works at University Paris 1 –Panthéon Sorbonne –CNRS, in the MATISSE team of the Centre d’économie de la Sorbonne (CES). His research deals with the dynamics of systems of social protection and employment policies, as well as European Union building. He was a founding member of the French Society of Evaluation (Société française de l'évaluation - SFE) and secretary of its board (1999-2001). He is one of the co-ordinators of the society's group on "standards and ethics".

http://matisse.univ-paris1.fr/membres/

Prof. Dr. Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc studied sociology at the State University of Leiden and social economic policy at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Until 1989, she was associated with the department of Public Administration at the State University of Leyden. She received a Senior Fullbright Fellowship in 1988 and subsequently held a post at Indiana University where she lectured on comparative politics and public administration. Since 1989 till 1999 she was affiliated to the Netherlands Court of Audit as an advisor on quality management. She is now professor of Public Administration at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. Her professional interests include the general theory of public administration, administrative ethics, and the theory and practice of auditing and evaluation, preferably taking a comparative view. She is presently a Senator (member of the Higher Chamber of the Netherlands Parliament).

Richard Boyle is senior research officer with the Institute of Public Administration in Ireland. Before joining the Institute in 1986, he worked in the local government service in England on policy review and evaluation. His work focuses on public service reform, managing for results in the public service and developing and implementing effective performance management systems. He has published numerous books and articles on program evaluation and performance measurement.

Jonathan D. Breul is a widely recognized expert on the policy and practice of improving government management and performance. As a Partner in IBM Global Business Services and Executive Director of the IBM Center for The Business of Government, he provides consulting services and cutting-edge thought leadership to top political and career employees throughout the federal government.
Formerly Senior Advisor to the Deputy Director for Management in the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President, Mr. Breul served as OMB's senior career executive with primary responsibility for government-wide general management policies and led the development and government-wide implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act.
He also served for nearly ten years as the U.S. delegate and elected vice chair of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Public Management Committee.
Mr. Breul is a Fellow and Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Academy Public Administration (NAPA), a Principal of the Council for Excellence in Government, and an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University's Graduate Public Policy Institute. He holds a Masters of Public Administration from Northeastern University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Colby College.
In 1995 he received the Mydral Award for Public Service from the American Evaluation Association.

Peter Dahler-Larsen is a professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, Southern Denmark University. His research interests include cultural and institutional aspects of evaluation. He has published in Evaluation, Administration and Society, Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Evaluation and Society. He has recently done a study of evaluation, power and democracy as a part of the Danish Parliament s
inquiry into power and democracy in Denmark.
He is the President of the European Evaluation Society.
Together with Jonathan Breul and Richard Boyle, he is editing a book on evaluation in public life, exploring the new roles of evaluative information in a public arena characterized by political images and new media.

Practice in international human rights law and public institutions including evaluation and assessment of national institutions. She has published articles and books on policy instrument choice and on public policy and public administration.

Steffen Bohni Nielsen holds a PhD from University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is currently Director of Evaluative Knowledge at Rambøll Management Consulting where he is responsible for the knowledge and quality management of evaluation services delivered by 140 colleagues across Europe. For the past ten years he has planned, conducted and reviewed numerous evaluation studies within the human services in Denmark and abroad. He has also worked extensively with evaluation capacity building and results-based management. He has published extensively on these topics and serves as a referee for three international public management and evaluation journals. He is a former board member of the Danish Evaluation Society.