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Marta Foresti

Marta Foresti
Senior Advisor-Evaluation Unit
Ministry of Economy
Via Nerra 1
00176 Rome, Italy
e-mail: marta.foresti@tesoro.it
Phone: 39 (0) 64 761 9081
e-mail: Marta_foresti@yahoo.co.uk



 

Kim Forss

ANDANTE - tools for thinking AB
Bisp Thomas n. 8
645 34 Strèngnès
Sweden
Phone : 46-152-197-00

e-mail: kim.forss@mailbox.swipnet.se

www.andante-evaluation.com

Kim Forss holds a Ph.D. from the Stockholm School of Econmics. His research has concerned comparative studies of evaluation, the design of inquiring systems and organisational learning, utilization of results as well as process use of evaluation. He is a founding member of the Andante group of companies, and owner/manager of Andante - tools for thinking AB that specialises on evaluation. He has conducted a large number of evaluations for a variety of public and private organisations in Sweden and abroad, as well as for the UN system. He has been teaching evaluation at several universities, developed in-house training programs and designed participatory evaluation processes for capacity development.
Jan-Eric Furubo

Audit Director
The Swedish National Audit Office
114 90 Stockholm
SWEDEN
Phone: +46 8 5171 42 66
FAX:    +46 8 5171 41 00
E-Mail:  jan-eric.furubo@riksrevisionen.se

 

Jan-Eric Furubo is an experienced evaluator since the 1970s when he conducted evaluations about the effects of different policy instruments in the field of energy conservation and health policy. Since the mid 80s he has been with the National Audit Office and even for a period with the National Financial Management Authority. In the 90s he was the head of a unit which main responsibility was to take part in the creation of evaluation strategies within the governmental sphere. He was later the head for the secretariat for strategic analyses within the audit office. Jan-Eric Furubo is the author of many articles and publications in the field of evaluation and the relation between budgeting, auditing and evaluation. He is co-editor of the International Atlas of Evaluation published 2002. He has been member of the board and Secretary General of European Evaluation Society. He is at present president in the Swedish Evaluation Society.

Andrew Gray

Canny Barn
Hetton-le-Hill Farm
Nr Houghton-le-Spring
DH5 0QX
UNITED KINGDOM
Phone: +44 191 526 6587
FAX:    +44 191 374 1274
E-Mail: a.g.gray@durham.ac.uk


Professor Andrew Gray (formerly Professor of Public Management at the University of Durham) now provides free-lance academic services for public management as it responds to the intensification of the mixed economy of public services. His current principal positions are (1) Vice Chair, County Durham Primary Care Trust, (2) Professorial Fellow, North East Public health observatoty (3) Editor, Public Money and Management. He is on the board of the Public Management and Policy Association and a founding Board Member of the European Evaluation Society.

Katia Horber-Papazian

Professor of Local Policy and Evaluation
Institut de Hautes Etudes en Administration Publique
Route de la Maladiere 21
CH-1022 Chavannes-pres-Renens
SWITZERLAND
Phone: 41-21-694 07 30
FAX:  +41 21 694 06 09
E-Mail: Katia.Horber-Papazian@idheap.unil.ch

 

Steve Jacob

Professor of Public Policy
Université Laval
Faculté des sciences sociales
Département de science politique
Pavillon Charles-de-Konninck
Québec G1K 7P4 (Québec)
Canada
email : steve.jacob@pol.ulaval.ca

Phone : + 1 (418) 656-2131 poste 12330
Fax : + 1 (418) 656-7861

 



Steve Jacob (1975, Belgium) is professor of policy analysis at Laval University in Québec.
After studying history at the Free University of Brussels, he became research assistant at the Free University of Brussels and the Catholic University of Louvain. He holds a Masters (2001- Institut d'Etudes Politiques - Paris) and a PhD (2004 - Free University of Brussels) in political science. His doctoral thesis was a cross-comparison of the institutionalization of policy evaluation in France, Belgium, Switzerland and The Netherlands. He has published several articles and reports on policy evaluation and public administration in Belgium. His research deals with the modernization of the public sector and the institutionalization of policy evaluation.

William Jenkins

Professor of Public Policy and Management
School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Cornwallis North East

University of Kent,
Canterbury CT2 7NF
UNITED KINGDOM
E-Mail: w.i.jenkins@kent.ac.uk
Phone : 44 227 827 537

 

Myoung-Soo Kim

Professor of Public Administration
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Seoul 130-791
REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Phone (office): +822 961 4346
Mobile: + 82-16-252-6235
FAX:              +822 967 1406
E-Mail: mskim528@yahoo.co.kr

E-Mail : mskim@hufs.ac.kr

 

Myoung-soo Kim is professor of public administration at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Republic of Korea. He served as Vice-president in 2001, as Deans of Academic Affairs and College of Social Sciences of the University. Dr. Kim also served as presidents of the Korean Association for Policy Studies in 1996 and of the Korean Association for Policy Analysis and Evaluation during 1993 and 1994. He served as performance evaluator of government-invested corporations and of Seoul City-invested Corporations. He has published numerous articles on program evaluation, public auditing, governmental reform, and anti-corruption. He is author of Public Policy Evaluation and co-author of Public Auditing.
Yoon-Shik Lee

Professor
Department of Public Administration
Soongsil University
1-1, Sangdo 5-Dong, Dongjak-GU
Seoul 156-743
REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Phone: +82 2 820 0514
FAX:    +82 2 822 3486
E-Mail: Yoonslee@ssu.ac.kr

 

Yoon-Shik Lee, who received a Ph.D in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Michigan United States in 1986, is a professor in the Department of Public Administration at Soongsil University in Seoul, Korea . His major field Program Evaluation. He is also interested in information & knowledge management. He served as vice presidents for academic affairs and for planning and coordination at the university. He was visiting Fulbright professor at the University of Maryland at college Park in the U.S. in 1995-6. He also served as the president of the Korean Assocation for Policy Studies. As chairman of the Committee on Evaluation of the Knowledge information Management of the Ministry of the Information and Communication and as a member of the Evaluation Commission on the Government Affairs of the Prime Minister's Office, he has been getting involved in the policy-making processes of the governmental agencies. In addition, he has been consulting with foreign goverments in the field of policy development. He wrote numerous books ans articles on program/policy evaluation and information/knowledge management including e-government.
Frans L. Leeuw

Director, WODC (Justice, Research and Evaluation Dept.)
Koninginnegracht
19, 2514 AB Den Haag
Holland
Phone: + 31 - 70 - 3706556

E-Mail: f.leeuw@minjus.nl and flleeuw@cuci.nl



 

 

Frans L. Leeuw (1953, Netherlands) currently is Director of the Research, Statistics and Information Center affiliated with the Dutch Ministry of Justice, Den Haag, the Netherlands. He also is Professor, Law, Public Policy and Social Science Research at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Earlier positions were Professor, Evaluation Studies, Utrecht University; Chief Review Officer of the Higher Education of the Netherlands, Director of the Performance Audit and Evaluation Division of Netherlands National Audit Office, Dean of the Humanities Faculty at the Netherlands OPen University and Associate Professor Social Policy Research with Leyden University In 1980 he was Fulbright Scholar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. As of January 1, 2003 he is President of the Dutch Evaluation Society. He is a member of several editorial review committees of applied social science and evaluation journals. He is a consultant to the World Bank, and he participates in several steering committees on evaluation, foreign affairs and developmental policies.


Donald Lemaire

Public Service Commission
Ottawa,
CANADA
Phone: +1 613 952 4642
E-Mail: Donald.lemaire@psc-cfp.gc.ca

 

 

Tom Ling


Professor of Public Policy
RAND Europe
Westbrook Centre
Milton Road
Cambridge CB4 1YG
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 1223 353 329
E-Mail: tling@rand.org
www.rand.org/randeurope

 

 

Tom Ling was the senior research fellow at the National Audit Office before joining RAND Europe where he is Director for Evaluation and Audit. He is interested in how evaluation practices have been applied in settings designed to secure accountability and to support learning. His current work includes supporting the analytical capacity of the UK Department of Health and the UK Clinical Research Collaboration, ongoing projects with the European Commission, and evaluations for the UK Health Foundation focusing on how to engage professionals in the process of quality improvement in healthcare. He has published widely on the UK public sector including 'The British State Since 1945', 'Reforming Healthcare by Consent' (editor), 'Ex Ante Evaluation and the Changing Public Audit Function', and 'Accountability to Parliament in the UK' (forthcoming). He is also a visiting Professor of Public Policy at Anglia Ruskin University.

Jeremy Lonsdale

Director
National Audit Office
Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1W 9SP
United Kingdom
Phone: 44- 0207 798 7412
E-mail: Jeremy.Lonsdale@nao.gsi.gov.uk

Jeremy Lonsdale is a Director at the National Audit Office in the United Kingdom. He is currently responsible of the development of value for money audit, including quality assurance, training and methodology. He joined the NAO in 1988 and qualified as an accountant in 1991. In 2000, he completed a PhD at Brunel University in the Department of Government. In 1999 he co-authored a book published by Oxford University Press 'Performance or Compliance ? Performance Audit and Public management in Five countries'. He is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Manchester Business School.