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Mita Marra

Researcher,
National Research Council (CNR)
Department of Economics and Statistics
University of Salerno
Italy
Phone 39 081 613 4086
FAX : 39 081 579
9467
E-Mail : Mita.Marra@issm.cnr.it


Mita Marra is a full-time researcher at the Italian National Research Council. Building upon her background in economics, she has obtained the Ph.D. in Public Policy from the George Washington University and the Master of Arts in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University. Since 1998, Mita Marra has consulted with the World Bank Institute and the Operations Evaluation Department of the World Bank, conducting evaluations on training and institutional development programs in developing countries. She is interested in the role of evaluation within the public sector, the new public management, and local development policies.
John Mayne 

654 Sherbourne Rd
Ottawa, Ontario K2A 3H3
CANADA
Phone: 613-729-9877
Fax: 613-729-4161
E-Mail: john.mayne@rogers.com

Dr. Mayne is an independent consultant. Until 2003, he was at the Office of the Auditor General of Canada where he led efforts at developing practices for effective performance measurement, managing for results, and performance reporting in the government of Canada, developing methodologies for providing audit assurance on performance reports, as well as leading the Office's audit efforts in accountability and governance. Prior to that, he was with the Treasury Board Secretariat. He has authored numerous articles and reports, and edited five books in the areas of program evaluation, public administration and performance monitoring

 

Burt Perrin

La Masque
30770 Vissec
FRANCE

Phone: (33) 4 67 81 50 11 (fax by arrangement)
E-Mail: Burt@BurtPerrin.com

Burt Perrin, an independent consultant based in France, has some 30 years' practical experience internationally in evaluation, policy and programme development, and strategic planning, on behalf of governments at all levels, international organisations, NGOs and the private sector. Burt places strong emphasis on taking a practical approach, so that evaluation is most likely to result in action. Examples of recent publications include: "How to - and How Not to - Evaluate Innovation", "Making Yourself - and Evaluation - Useful", and "Effective Use and Misuse of Performance Measurement".

Claus C.Rebien

Chief Project Manager
COWI, Ltd.
Parallelvej 2
2800 KGS. Lyngby
Denmark
Phone: 45 4597 1271
e-mail: ccr@cowi.dk


Claus C. Rebien holds a Ph.D. in Evaluation Theory and Methodology from Copenhagen Business School, and an MA in Political Science and Public Administration from University of Copenhagen. He was the Tietgen Prize Award winner, 1996.

Dr Rebien is Chief Projects Manager in COWI's Division for Economics and Management. He has more than 15 years of experience in planning, implementing and evaluating projects, programmes and organisations.
Dr Rebien has previously been employed as Programme Officer at the United Nations Office in Jamaica and as Research Officer at UN headquarters in New York.
He has authored and co-authored a number of books and articles on evaluation, and is currently working on a project to develop teaching material for evaluation training. He was a member of the first board of the Danish Evaluation Society, and chaired the group that developed the Danish evaluation terminology.


Olaf Rieper

Director of Research
AKF - Institute of Local Government Studies-Denmark
Nyropsgade 37
DK - 1602 Copenhagen
DENMARK
Phone: 45 43 33 34 68
FAX:    45 43 33 34 01
E-Mail: or@akf.dk

Olaf Rieper has an MA in sociology (1974) and a PhD in Organisation Theory from the Copenhagen Business School of Economics and Social Sciences (1984), and is Director of research at the Danish Institute of Government at Research Institute (AKF), Copenhagen. Prior to that he was an associate professor at the Copenhagen Business School, the Danish Institute of Technology, and the University of Michigan. He was awarded first prize for a monograph on Working Environment Year 2000. He has conducted evaluations and research on public programs and organisations for Danish and Norwegian government agencies and for the EU Commission. He has authored books in evaluation methods and -policy.
Olaf Rieper is a part time lecturer in " evaluation practice and methods" at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.

 

Ray Rist

Chair
c/o Independent Evaluation Group
The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
Washington DC 20433
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Phone: 202 458 5625
FAX:   202 522 3125
E-Mail: rrist@worldbank.org

RAY C. RIST is  with the Operations Evaluation Department (OED). Prior to coming to the World Bank in 1996, his career has included fifteen years in the United States Government with appointments in both the Executive and Legislative Branches. He also has served twelve years as a university professor with positions at The Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, and The George Washington University. Dr. Rist was the Senior Fulbright Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, Germany in 1976 and 1977. He has authored or edited 23 books, written more than 125 articles, and lectured in more than 50 countries. For the past fifteen years, he has chaired an international working group with representative from seventeen countries who are collaborating on research related to evaluation and governance. He also has a four year old grand-daughter named Molly and a new grandson named Ethan.

 

Rolf Sandahl

Ekonomistyrningsverket
Box 45316
SE- 104 30 Stockholm
SWEDEN
Phone: 46 8 690 4310
FAX: 46 8 786 4996
E-Mail: rolf.sandahl@esv.se

Rolf Sandahl holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. He is expert in evaluation and public management questions at the Swedish Financial Management Authority and author of many books and articles in the area of policy instruments, evaluation and management by results.
Robert (Reuven) Schwartz

Robert Schwartz, Ph.D.
Director of Evaluation and Monitoring
Ontario Tobacco Research Unit
Associate Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences
University of Toronto
Tel. 416-978-3901
Cell 416-346-4509
Fax 416-946-0340
email: Robert.Schwartz@utoronto.ca

 

Robert Segsworth

Department of Political Science
Laurentian University
Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6
CANADA
Phone: 705 675 1151
FAX:    705 675 4872
E-Mail: bsegswor@nickel.laurentian.ca

Bob Segsworth has been a member of INTEVAL since its inception. He is editor of The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation/ La revue canadienne d’évaluation de programme. He has published articles and chapters on evaluation in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Currently, he is Professor of Political Science at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Current research centres on performance indicators, accountability and local government and Canadian public administration’s perception of evaluation.