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Goran Arvidsson

Director of Research
SNS Center for Business & Policy Studies
Box 5629
SE-1
14 86 Stockholm
SWEDEN
Phone: +46 8 50702566
FAX:    +46 8 50702595
Mobile phone : +46 708 934906
E-Mail:  goran.arvidsson@sns.se

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

NORAD
Oslo, Norway

E-Mail: peba@norad.no

 

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

Director of Research (CNRS)
Université Paris 1

Matisse
Maison des sciences économiques
106-112, Boulevard de l'Hôpital
75647 Paris cedex 13
FRANCE
tel 33(0) 1 44 07 81 56
E-Mail: Jean-Claude.Barbier@univ-paris1.fr
http://www.cee-recherche.fr/uk/fiches_chercheurs/barbier.htm
http://matisse.univ-paris1.fr/membres/

 

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".

Sara Batterbury


Policy Research Institute
Leeds Metropolitan University
Bronte Hall
Headingley Campus
Beckett Park
Leeds LS6 3QS
E-Mail: s.batterbury@leedsmet.ac.uk
Phone: 44 (0) 113 283 1747
Fax: 44 (0) 113 283 1748
 
Marie Louise Bemelmans-Videc

Kievitlaan 8
2396 JC Koudekerk ad Rijn
THE NETHERLANDS
Phone: 31 71 3412 1 77
FAX:    31 71 3410 349
E-Mail: m.bemelmans@nsm.kun.nl
Bemelmans-Videc@planet.nl

 

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

Senior Research Officer
Institute of Public Administration
Vergemount Hall
Clonskeagh
Dublin 6
IRELAND
Phone: +353 1 269 7011
FAX:    +353 1 269 8644
E-Mail: rboyle@ipa.ie

 

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

Executive Director
IBM Center for The Business of Government
1301 K Street, NW, 4th Floor, West Tower
Washington, D.C. 20005
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Phone: + 1 202 515-4382
FAX: + 1 202 515-4375
E-Mail: Jonathan.D.Breul@us.ibm.com


 

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

Department of Political Science and Public Management
SDU-Odense University
Campusvej 55
5230 Odense M
Denmark
Phone: 45 65 50 3276
FAX: 45 66 19 2577
E-mail: PDL@sam.sdu.dk

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.

 

Hans-Ulrich Derlien

Professor of Administrative Science
University of Bamberg
Feldkirchenstrasse 21
D - 96050 Bamberg
GERMANY
Phone: +49 951 863 2625/2626
FAX:    +49 951 863 2627
E-Mail: hans-ulrich.derlien@sowi.uni-bamberg.de

 

Hans-Ulrich Derlien, born in 1945, is full professor of Public Administration at the university of Bamberg, Germany. After studying sociology at the Free University of Berlin and at Leicester University, he served as research assistant at the Speyer Graduate School of Public Administration and the University of Cologne. Before accepting the chair in Bamberg in 1978, he was professor of public administration at the University of the federal army in Hamburg; in 1990 he declined a calling to Munich. His research interest is in policy analysis, particularly evaluation, and in the political aspects of local and national government in general and the administrative elite in particular. He presently serves on the editorial boards of the journals GOVERNANCE and Die Öffentliche Verwaltung; he is also board member of the Gesellschaft fuer Programmforschung (Program Research Association) and of the German Section of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences.

 

F. Pearl Eliadis

Law office
Human rights, National institutions and
Democratic Development
64 ave Claude Champagne
Montreal, Quebec
H2V 2XI

e-mail: eliadis@mcconnellfoundation.ca
e-mail: pearl.e@sympatico.ca
Phone : 1-514-771-9462 (Mobile)
Phone : 1-514-739-9462 ex.1 (Office)

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.