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Sandra Speer

Independent Evaluator
Untere Matthias-Claudius str. 11
D-65185 Wiesbaden
Germany
Phone : +49 611 1873432
Fax : +49 611 1873430
E-Mail: sandra_speer@t-online.de

 

Sandra Speer (GERMANY/HUNGARY) is working as an independent evaluator. The focus of her work is on national and international evaluation and research for public agencies like the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Security as well as evaluations in the fields of vocational education and training, labour market and social policy. Her specialization is in evaluation methodology, the relationship of different preordinate and emergent evaluation models.
Markus Spinatsch

Consulting for Public Policy and Administration
Spitalgasse 14
CH - 3011 Bern
SWITZERLAND
Phone: +41 31 312 13 24
FAX:    +41 31 312 13 25
E-Mail: ms@m-spinatsch.ch
http: www.m-spinatsch.ch

 

Dr. Markus Spinatsch is currently a consultant for Public Policy and Administration in Bern. He is consulting national and international policy decision makers in questions of task assessment, strategy, organization and evaluation of public policies. He was formerly Head of Parliamentary Administration Control in Bern. In this function, he directed evaluations of public policies and programs on behalf of the Swiss Parliament and he was consulting the Parliamentary Oversight Committees in their task of supervision over the Government and his administration. He is a social scientist with a Ph. D. in sociology. Before assisting the Swiss Parliament, he was for many years research director in a Swiss non-governmental organization dealing with fundamental and applied research in the fields of health promotion, substance abuse and dependencies. He also worked as a social science advisor for the Swiss Development Corporation in Bangladesh and he conducted a number of research projects in the field of international development.

 

Nicoletta Stame

Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
Dipartimento di Ricerca Sociale
Corso Italia 38A
00198 Roma
ITALY
Phone: +39 06 474 2822
FAX:    +39 06 844 033 46
E-mail: nstame@aconet.it

 

Nicoletta Stame teaches Social Policy at the University "La Sapienza", Rome. She was a co-founder and the first president of the Italian Evaluation Association. She is the past President of the European Evaluation Society for 2004-05. Nicoletta is interested in the theory and methods of evaluation. She is the author of "Strategie familiari e teorie dell'azione sociale" (Milan, 1990), "L'esperienza della valutazione" (Rome, 1998) and of many essays in volumes and journals and editor of "Classici della valutazione" (Milan, 2006). Her professional background includes researches on socio-economic development, industrial policies, family business and political participation. She has evaluated programs of enterprise creation, aid to SMEs, social integration. Her work aims at enhancing the evaluation capacities of public administrators, program implementers and beneficiaries.
Jacques Toulemonde

Eureval - Center for European Evaluation Expertise
13 bis, Place Jules Ferry
69006  Lyon
FRANCE
Phone: +33 4 72 83 78 80
FAX:    +33 4 72 83 78 81
E-Mail: toulemonde@eureval.fr
www.eureval.com

 

Jacques Toulemonde, is partner and co-founder of Eureval - Centre for European Evaluation Expertise, and managing director of the Master of Public Policy Evaluation in Lyon University. Under contract with the European Commission, he co-ordinated several programmes on evaluation methodology in the field of socio-economic development (MEANS) and development aid (EuropeAid). He works as a leader of evaluation teams and as an adviser for public organisations in many countries. He is the author and editor of articles and books dealing with quality and professionalism in the field of evaluation, evaluation techniques and causality analysis, performance measurement and evaluation in partnership.

Jos Vaessen

Institute of Development Policy and Management
University of Antwerp
Lange St. Annastraat 7
2000 Antwerp
Belgium
Tel: + 32 3 275 59 29
Email: Jos.Vaessen@Ua.Ac.Be
Jos Vaessen, MSc agricultural development economics (Wageningen University, 1997), is a researcher at the Institute of Development Policy and Management of the University of Antwerp. He has been involved in research and evaluation activities in the fields of poverty alleviation and rural development, mostly in Central America. He is particularly interested in theory-based approaches to evaluation as well as the methodological underpinnings of program evaluation, both prominent issues in his ongoing PhD research.

Robert D. Van den Berg

Director, Evaluation Office,
Global Environment Facility (GEF/EO)
1818 H Street NW
Washington, DC 20433 USA
Tel : +1 202 473 6078
Email : rvandenberg@thegef.org

www.thegef.org/gefevaluation.aspx

 
Peter Van der Knaap

Director of Policy Evaluation
Netherlands Court of Audit
PO Box 20015
NL-2500 EA The Hague
Tel: +31-70-342 42 60
Email: Peter.vanderknaap@rekenkamer.nl
www.rekenkamer.nl

 

Dr. Peter van der Knaap is director of policy evaluation at the Netherlands Court of Audit and board member of the Netherlands Evaluation Society VIDE. His main research interests are theory-based, policy oriented learning, evaluation utilisation, and performance oriented budgetting. Prior to this work at the Court of Audit, Van der Knaap was responsible for national policy evaluation at the Ministry of Finance. In 1997 he earned his PhD on "Learning government, intelligent policies", a study into the effects of policy evaluation and recommendations on the EU structural funds regulations.

 

Peter Wilkins

Assistant Auditor General Performance Review
Office of the Auditor General
4th Floor Dumas House
2 Havelock Street
West Perth
Western Australia 6050
Australia
Phone: +61 8 9222 7588
Email: peter.wilkins@audit.wa.gov.au

Peter has diverse work experience in Australia, England, Malaysia and Canada including roles as an engineer, Research Fellow, consultant and over twenty years as a public sector manager. He is currently Assistant Auditor General Performance Review for the Auditor General of Western Australia with responsibility for the conduct and reporting of examinations of the efficiency and effectiveness of public sector agencies. He also holds the positions of Adjunct Professor in the School of Accounting and The John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, and Associate of the, Public Sector Governance and Accountability Research Centre at La Trobe University, Victoria.
He has extensive practical and research experience regarding accountability, public sector performance reporting, and assessing and improving the performance of national and State audit offices. He liases regularly with audit offices in Australasia, North America and Europe and has contributed to national and international initiatives. He has conducted and initiated research and presented papers, lectures and courses on public sector management, accountability and audit.

Eduardo Zapico-Goni

Eduardo Zapico-Goni
Evaluation Unit, Directorate of the Budget
European Commission
Brussels, Belgium
Telephone: +32 2 298 0774
E-mail: Eduardo.ZAPICO-GONI@cec-eu.int


 

 

 

Eduardo Zapico previously worked as a researcher on public expenditure management in the Institute of Fiscal Studies, in Madrid. He also collaborates as a part time associate professor on public management and budgeting in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
He has worked in the National Audit Office of Spanish central Government, in the fields of public expenditure control and program evaluation. Before he was in the OECD/SIGMA department doing research and consultancy for Central and Eastern European countries on Budgeting and Resource Allocation.. Previously he worked at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht (The Netherlands), teaching and researching on public management and budgeting.
He studied Business Admon. (University Complutense of Madrid) and Public Administration at the University of New York. He holds a MPA (New York) and a PhD (Madrid) in Public Admon. He has published several books and articles on Public Budgeting, and Spending Management (e.g. La Modernizacion Simbolica del Presupuesto Publico, IVAP, 1989). Also he has coedited with John Mayne, Monitoring Performance in the Public Sector, Transaction Publishers, 1997 and with Aaron Wildavsky, National Budgeting for Economic and Monetary Union, EIPA, 1993.