左涛博士，现任教育部外资贷款事务中心外资处（全国学生资助管理中心中职处）处长、高级工程师。长期从事教育外资利用和学生资助相关领域的管理和科研工作，发表学术论文、文章十余篇，编写或翻译书目二十余册，专著包括：《国家助学贷款资产证券化模式研究与实践》等。主要研究领域为财政支出绩效评价、存量资产证券化、国际金融组织贷款交付科学、学生资助精准管理。左涛先生拥有中国吉林大学经济学博士学位。

        张绘，中国财政科学研究院教科文研究中心副研究员。本硕博均就读于北京师范大学经济与工商管理学院获公共管理博士学位。2009年获国家资助前往美国哥伦比亚大学教师教育学院（Teachers College）访学一年。

        Riccardo Polastro is the Regional Evaluation Adviser at UNICEF Regional Office for East Asia and the Pacific. As the Regional Evaluation Adviser, he has developed and managed the strategy and action plan to strengthen the evaluation function in East Asia and Pacific region. He has twenty years of experience in humanitarian affairs and development aid having worked in over sixty five countries for the International Movement of the Red Cross, the United Nations, NGOs, donor agencies and private firms. Riccardo has carried out policy and operational evaluations and reviews funded by BPRM, Canadian DFAT, Danida, DFID, DG ECHO, IASC, ICRC, KOIKA, NMFA, OCHA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNDP, SDC, Sida and other organizations. He lectured in several university-level Master’s programs and provided professional training on results-based management. He holds an MPhil in Peace and Security, an MA in International Relations. Riccardo obtained his Maîtrise of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He served as ALNAP steering committee member.

        王雍君，1962年8月13日出生于湖南省邵东县。1994年中国社会科学院研究生院毕业，获经济学博士学位；现为中央财经大学教授、博士生导师，中央财经大学政府预算研究中心主任，北京财经研究基地首席专家，中国财政学会理事，中国财政学会外国财政理事，北京市财政学会理事，北京市党外高级知识分子联谊会理事、监事。2004年入选中央财经大学首批教育部跨世纪优秀人才。自2008年起享受国务院特殊贡献专家津贴。2013年获聘“国家审计署特约审计员”和“国家审计指南专家委员会委员”，2013年获聘国家开放银行高级专家。2013年被全国公共管理专业学位研究生教育指导委员会聘为“全国MPA培养院校公共经济学师资培训班”授课专家。1995-1998年在财政部预算司借调工作，先后担任《地方财政》杂志副主编和主编。

        王泽彩，中国财政科学研究院办公室主任，研究员，制度经济学博士，硕士生导师。中国财政学会理事，中国农村财经研究会理事，中国财政学会绩效管理研究专业委员会副会长兼秘书长。他擅长用“财政均富”理念，专注财政政策、财政体制、部门预算、国库集中收付、政府采购、政府会计、预算绩效管理、内控制度等研究。参与国家级、省部级和世界银行、亚洲开发银行等一系列重大课题研究。著有《企业家职业化》、《财政均富论》、《部门预算管理》、《绩效：政府预算的起点与终点》等9部，发表论文百余篇。先后为美国、加拿大、日本、德国、委内瑞拉、越南、柬埔寨等国家，以及汇丰银行、高盛集团等国际金融机构授课，输出中国财政理论与实践。

        彭润中，现为财政部亚太财经与发展学院处长，上海国家会计学院教授。为上海市经济学会会员，相关政府部门咨询专家。2001年从复旦大学世界经济研究所毕业，获经济学博士学位。1982-1994年间主要从事自然科学研究；1994年至今主要从事财经领域的教学与研究，并参与相关国家级课题、省部级课题的研究与企业、政府咨询工作；先后在荷兰、伊朗、美国等国家学习与工作。研究领域主要包括世界经济、投资项目评估、绩效评价、金融等。作为主要作者完成两项国家社科基金课题，多项省部级自然科学与财经课题；先后撰写财经与自然科学专著、译著多部；在国内外主要学术刊物发表中英文论文十余篇。多次获得厅（局）、校级科研成果奖励和先进工作者称号。

        王瑞军，科技部科技评估中心主任

        张朝阳，国家卫生计生委项目资金监管服务中心主任, 研究员,北京大学、复旦大学兼职教授。2007年博士研究生毕业于复旦大学社会医学与卫生事业管理专业；1992年硕士研究生毕业于美国伊利诺州大学公共卫生学院公共卫生专业；1983年本科毕业于同济医科大学医学专业。曾任国家卫生部医政司副司长、基层卫生与妇幼保健司副司长、农村卫生管理司副司长;负责或参与过世界银行卫生一、二、三、四、八、九、十一等项目的方案设计和组织实施；DIFD的中国卫生政策支持项目(HPSP)、中英全球卫生项目(GHSP)组织实施，兼任项目主任；承担过WHO、UICEF、亚行、澳发署等许多项目组织管理和实施；主持过香港明爱、香港嘉道理等慈善项目的组织管理工作等。

        王蕾现为亚太财经与发展学院研究员、上海国家会计学院讲师。研究兴趣为金融风险管理和财政支出绩效评价。2013年毕业于上海交通大学，获管理学博士学位。2015年赴加拿大卡尔顿大学参加世界银行IPDET（国际发展评价项目）培训。近年来，在知名期刊上发表论文十多篇，参与财政部及上海市课题多项。

        储雪玲，农业部对外经济合作中心副研究员，管理学博士，工作领域为农业国际合作、绩效评价。她主持或参与了13个国际金融组织贷赠款项目管理工作，近年来连续为农业部的农业投资项目绩效评价提供技术支持，执笔编写的“农业投资项目绩效管理操作手册”已由农业部下发各省，成为指导全国农业投资项目绩效管理的首个技术规范。

        刘启明博士为中国农业大学人文与发展学院副教授。1999年，获日本日本专修大 学法学学士学位；2001年，获日本早稻田大学国际关系学硕士学位；2004年，获日本东京农工大学农林经营经济学专业农学博士学位。是 Shanghai International Program for Development Evaluaion Training2010 级学员。 至今， 参与过财政部 国际金融组织贷款项目试点工作的各类活动，包括项目绩效评价、农业类项目和城 建环保类项目指标体系开发、再评价指标体系开发与应用、各年度项目绩效评价报告的评审与工作总结等。参与过农业部计划司《政府农业投资项目管理试点工作手 册》（2015）的编制。自 2013 年开始，作为讲师参与了亚太财经与发展学院承办的 shipdet 和西部班的培训。

Farzana Ahmed is the Lead Evaluation Specialist at the Independent Evaluation Department (IED) of the Asian Development Bank. Amongst other evaluation roles, Ms Ahmed leads the evaluation capacity development function at IED. Ms Ahmed joined the ADB in 1998 and prior to joining IED, held positions in ADB Operations that included a country posting in Indonesia and a secondment as an Advisor to the Australian Agency for International Development. Before joining ADB, Ms Ahmed worked in various  nancial positions in the private sector in the United Kingdom and Australia. Bangladeshi by origin, Ms Ahmed graduated from Oxford University, UK and is a quali ed chartered accountant.

Joanne Asquith is Senior Evaluation Specialist in the Independent Evaluation Department at the Asian Development Bank. She has worked for a number of development agencies in both operations and evaluation, and has spent most of her career based in the  eld in Asia, Africa, and the Paci c. Joanne holds a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Manchester.

Michael Bamberger has a Ph.D in Sociology. He has 45 years of experience in development evaluation including 23 years with the World Bank where he worked on development evaluation, evaluation training for the Asia region and gender and development. Since retiring from the Bank he has worked as an independent consultant on development evaluation with 10 UN agencies, development banks and NGOs. He currently advises the Evaluation O ce of the Rockefeller Foundation, a member of the international advisory panel of the Independent Evaluation O ce of UNDP, and a member of UN Women’s evaluation advisory panel. Recent publications include RealWorld Evaluation: Working under Budget, Time, Data and Political Constraints (2012; Introduction to Mixed Methods in Impact Evaluation (2012); How to Design and Manage Equity Focused Evaluations (2011); Emerging Opportunities: Monitoring and Evaluation in a Tech-Enabled World (2014) and Dealing with Complexity in Development Evaluation.

Andrew Brubaker is Senior Evaluation Specialist at the Asian Development Bank. He has been with ADB for 4 years and primarily works on thematic evaluations related to environment, agriculture and natural resources management and public sector management. Before joining ADB, he worked in evaluation at the International Fund for Agricultural Development and for several US government agencies. Andrew’s international work began in the Philippines where he served as a US Peace Corps Volunteer. He has a Master’s of Public A airs degree from Indiana University and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Temple University.

Heather Bryant is Evaluation Advisor at the UNDP Independent Evaluation O ce (IEO), where she has been working since 2012. She is currently conducting evaluations of UNDP country programmes called Assessments of Development Results, most recently in Malaysia, Morocco, Mauritania and Cameroon. She also recently completed a Joint Evaluation of the GEF/UNDP Small Grants Programme in collaboration with the GEF Independent Evaluation O ce. Prior to joining the UNDP IEO, Heather worked for UNDP Nepal as the head of the Strategic Planning and Development E ectiveness Unit, where she was responsible for planning, monitoring and evaluation tasks, with a special emphasis on human rights, gender equality and social exclusion issues. Heather has a master’s in geography from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and speaks English and French.

Michael Carbon has worked in evaluation since 2005, first for IFAD, Rome and later for UNEP, Nairobi. Michael led a great variety of ex-post evaluations in Africa, Asia and Latin America, including evaluations of the UNEP disasters and conflicts, climate change and chemicals and waste sub-programmes, the UNEP Sudan Country Programme, the IFAD DR Congo CSP, and numerous environmental and rural development projects and programmes. Before starting his evaluation career, Michael worked in northern Vietnam, as a technical assistant and later as a project coordinator in the field of rural extension and farmer organization. Michael obtained a MSc in Bio-engineering, specializing in Forestry, Nature Conservation and Tropical Agriculture from KUL (Leuven, Belgium), an Engineering Diploma in Tropical Agronomy from CNEARC (Montpellier, France) and a PhD Preparatory Studies Degree in Geography and Development Practice from INA-PG (Paris). Michael recently returned to the IFAD Independent Evaluation Office as a Senior Evaluation Officer.

Xueling Chu is Associate Research Fellow from the Foreign Economic Cooperation Center, Ministry of Agriculture of the PRC. She is engaged in agricultural international cooperation and performance evaluation. She has presided over or participated in 13 loan or grant projects funded by international  nancial organizations, and worked as a consultant in the performance evaluation for MOA’s agricultural investment projects in recent years. The “Operation Manual for Performance Management of Agricultural Investment Project”, which is the  rst technical standard in the performance management for agricultural investment projects in China, written by Ms. Chu and her colleagues, has been issued to all the Chinese provinces. She holds a Doctoral degree in management.

Alexandra Chambel is Evaluation Adviser at the Evaluation O ce of UNFPA, in New York. She has more than 21 years of experience on international cooperation and development aid. This has included positions in bilateral and multilateral organizations spanning evaluation, monitoring and policy. She started her career at the European Commission, working with the Africa, Caribbean and Paci c countries in 1995, in Brussels. She has worked as Evaluation O cer at the Institute of Portuguese Cooperation of the MFA of Portugal before being seconded, in 2002, to the European Commission/ EuropeAid where she hold management and coordination positions in evaluation and monitoring. After almost 6 years of working in HQ, she became Policy Adviser at the EU Delegation in Guatemala. In 2009, Alexandra relocated to New York and joined the Evaluation O ce of UNDP as Evaluation Specialist prior to joining UNFPA in 2011.

Marco Gatti is Principal Evaluation Specialist at the Asian Development Bank. He has extensive experience in conducting evaluation studies, including corporate, sector and project evaluation studies. Amongst his recent corporate evaluations are Managing for Development Results, Knowledge Products and Services, and Regional Cooperation and Integration. Prior to working at ADB, he was a sta  of Elf Trading France SA (Elf Aquitaine Group) and DRI Energy, DRI/McGraw-Hill Inc in Paris, France. He completed his undergraduate Degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Master’s (M.Sc.) Degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Cheryl Gray joined the IDB in June 2011 after working 25 years at the World Bank, most recently as Director of Independent Evaluation. Prior to that position, she served as a Director in their Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Vice-Presidency, managing the World Bank’s work on economic policy, governance, legal and judicial reform, and gender and poverty analysis in 30 ECA countries. From 1997 to 2002 she served as Director for Public Sector Reform, co-authoring the World Bank’s anticorruption and public sector reform strategies, and from 1987 to 1997 she worked as an economist in the World Bank’s Development Research Department and O ce of Chief Economist. Before joining the World Bank she worked for three years as an advisor in the Ministry of Finance in Indonesia. Cheryl holds a PhD degree on Public Policy from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford University.

Caroline Heider is the Director-General and Senior Vice-President of Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank Group. She joined the Independent Evaluation Group on October 1, 2011. She reports directly to the World Bank Group’s Boards of Executive Directors through the Committee on Development E ectiveness. Caroline has more than 25 years of international experience, the majority of which in evaluation. Prior to the World Bank Group, she has worked with  ve multilateral organizations, including two international  nance institutions (Asian Development Bank and International Fund for Agriculture Development), a technical agency (UNIDO) and two Funds and Programmes of the UN System (UNDP and WFP). She is a life-time member of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS). She has been a member of the American Evaluation Association, the Australasian Evaluation Society and the European Evaluation Society. She served a 2-year term as vice-chair of the UN Evaluation Group.

Masahiro Igarashi is an evaluation expert with more than 25 years of experience in development evaluation, economic analysis, organizational reform and policy development, and result-based management. He is currently serving as the Director of OED and has led the reform process of FAO’s evaluation function to enhance the quality of its evaluations and their utility to stakeholders. Before joining FAO, he served as Evaluation Advisor at the United Nations Development Programme. Prior to this, he served as Programme Management O cer and Economic A airs O cer at the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development. He holds a doctorate degree in economics from the University of Queen’s in Canada and a master’s degree in socio-economic planning from the University of Tsukuba in Japan. He will deliver the keynote for FAO’s session on the importance of linking evaluation with policy and governance in food security.

Asela Kalugampitiya is a Sri Lankan lawyer currently working as EvalPartners Executive Coordinator which is co-chaired by United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG). He manages initiatives related to Global Evaluation Agenda 2016-2020 and EvalPartners global activities. Asela has been working in the M&E  eld for over 15 years particularly in gender equality and policy development. He has worked for international organizations including International Development Law Organization (IDLO), UN Women, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), International Labor Organization (ILO) and CARE International as Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist. Asela was instrumental in initiating “engaging parliamentarians in evaluation” campaign which led to the launch of Global Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation. He was also instrumental in International Year of Evaluation 2015 and organizing Global Evaluation Week held at the parliament of Nepal.

Young Uck Kang joined ADB in July 2014 for promoting internal/external knowledge sharing, especially through a case-based approach in capturing and sharing tacit knowledge embedded in developmental experiences and ADB’s projects. As a knowledge management practitioner, he was a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management (2005-2014), teaching Analysis of Market and Public Policy, Analysis of Policy-making Process, and Strategic Leadership in Public Management. His specialties also lie in the area of policy analysis and evaluation, public  nance, governance, and public education. Kang earned his PhD in Public Administration from the New York University in 2004. He holds a Master of Philosophy from the New York University in 2001, a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago in 1998 and a Master of Business Administration from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1991. He has a BA in economics and computer science from the Georgetown University.

Walter Kolkma is an experienced evaluator and has been Director of one of the two divisions in the Independent Evaluation Department of the Asian Development Bank for the last 5 years. As such he oversaw many challenging evaluations such as on ADB’s support for inclusive growth and the Millennium Development Goals. He was team leader and Director for various environmental and social safeguards evaluations at ADB. Previous to his 15 year career in ADB, he worked for 7 years in Pakistan on the social action program, 2 years in Lebanon on administrative reform, and a year in Sudan on refugee integration, apart from a 5 year stints in the Netherlands in the Free University Amsterdam and a year in OXFAM-Novib. Walter Kolkma holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Wageningen with a thesis on the monitoring and planning of public investment programs in Pakistan.

Suk-Won Lee is Associate Dean and Professor of Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University (SNU) in South Korea. Since 2014, he has been leading the Centre for International Development Evaluation(CIDE) at SNU. From 2002, he has conducted numerous individual and governmental research projects of program evaluation at SNU. He has also served as a member of many di erent government committees, including the Evaluation Subcommittee of International Development and Cooperation Committee in Prime Minister’s O ce, which he is to serve for two years from the second half of 2016. Before joining SNU, he was a Research Associate at the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC), a leading research organization in the USA best known for large-scale random-assignment experimental evaluations. He holds a Ph. D. from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, and a Masters and a Bachelor from Seoul National University.

Kouqing Li is the Director-General of the Asia-paci c Finance and Development Institute (AFDI) and President of Shanghai National Accounting Institute (SNAI). He is also a member of the Education Advisory Group of IFRS Foundation; Advisory specialist on Management Accounting of the Ministry of Finance of China; Executive Member of the Council of the Accounting Society of China and Executive Member of the Council of China Association of Chief Financial O cers. Prior to joining SNAI in 2000, Li had been teaching in the Department of Economics and Trade, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE) since 1988. From 1998 to 2000, he was the Principal Coordinator of the Sino-US Joint MBA Program at SUFE. Li earned his professorship in 2000. He received his Doctoral Degree in Business Administration from SUFE. From 1996 to 1997, he was a visiting scholar at the American Graduate School of International Management).

Yamini Mishra is the Gender Responsive Budgeting Specialist for the Regional O ce for Asia Paci c for UN Women. In her current role, she serves as a Policy Specialist, providing technical support to various stakeholders including member states, regional bodies, other UN Agencies and CSOs. She has been invited by the Government of India to be on several important committees, including the Feminist Economist Committee set up by the Planning Commission of India. Before joining UN Women, Yamini was the Executive Director, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA), Delhi, an organization which does cutting edge work on governance issues using budget analysis as the entry point. Prior to this, Yamini worked with the Asia Paci c Forum on Women, Law and Development, located in Thailand, a regional women’s rights network.

Indran Naidoo is the Director of the Independent Evaluation O ce of the United Nations Development Programme. Since 2012, Indran has overseen more than 50 global, thematic and country programme evaluations. He has convened biennial global conferences on national evaluation capacity, most recently in Bangkok in 2015. He is also a Vice-Chair of the United Nations Evaluation Group. His prior career involved leadership, design and implementation of oversight systems in South Africa at the National Department of Land A airs and the Public Service Commission, where he was Chief Director and DDG for both Leadership and Management Practices and M&E. He holds a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, a Masters in Geography, West Virginia University (USA), B.Ed. in Curriculum Development (UNISA) and a B.A. in Geography and B.Paedagogics from the University of KwaZulu Natal. He has participated in Executive Development programmes at Oxford, Harvard, and Wits Business School.

Rakesh Nangia is the Evaluator General for Independent Development Evaluation at the African Development Bank. Prior to joining the AfDB, he spent 25 years at the World Bank, where he held several positions including Director of Strategy and Operations for the Human Development Network and Acting Vice-President for the World Bank Institute. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi and Harvard University and holds degrees in business administration and engineering.

Runzhong Peng is the Director and Professor of the Asia-Paci c Finance and Development Institute under the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China. He graduated from the Institute of World Economy of the Shanghai-based Fudan University and holds a PhD in economics. He also has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Changchun Institute of Geosciences. Since 2002, his research area has covered regional economies, focusing on  nance, project evaluation and public private partnership. He also worked as senior expert for the Ministry of Finance in performance evaluation of agriculture and infrastructure projects funded by international  nancial organizations in the country. He is either an author or co-author of more than 20 papers and books, in English and Chinese.

Riccardo Polastro is Regional Evaluation Adviser at UNICEF Regional O ce for East Asia and the Paci c. As Adviser, he developed and managed the strategy and action plan to strengthen the evaluation function in East Asia and the Paci c. He has over twenty years of experience in humanitarian a airs and development aid having worked in more than 65 countries for Red Cross, UN, NGOs, donor agencies and private  rms. Riccardo has carried out policy and operational evaluations and reviews funded by BPRM, Canadian DFAT, Danida, DFID, DG ECHO, IASC, ICRC, KOIKA, NMFA, OCHA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNDP, SDC, Sida and other organizations. He lectured in several university-level Master’s programs and provided professional training on results based management. He holds an MPhil in Peace and Security, an MA in International Relations. Riccardo obtained his Maîtrise of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He served as ALNAP steering committee member.

Juan Manuel Puerta is a senior economist at the Independent O ce of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Juan Manuel joined the IDB in March 2010, after working as a Professor of Economics at the Central European University in Budapest. As a researcher Juan Manuel specialized economic development, labor economics and economic history. His research on the causal e ect of public policies on child labor, education and fertility was recognized by the Economic History Society (UK) and the Economic History Association (USA). As an evaluator Juan Manuel has specialized in the evaluation programs in the  scal, infrastructure (urban development, energy and water and sanitation) and regional integration areas. Dr. Puerta holds a Ph.D. in Economics (summa cum laude) from Pompeu Fabra University. He also holds an M. A. on transition economics from CERGE-EI, Prague.

Dr Jyotsna (Jo) Puri heads evaluation at the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and is the Deputy Executive Director of the organization. Jo is a member of 3ie’s senior management team, leads 3ie’s open, thematic and policy related grant windows and is also responsible for fund raising while advocating for greater and better evidence. Jo Puri has over 21 years of experience in evaluation and evidence-based policy and has worked earlier at the World Bank and the United Nations. Jo is also currently adjunct faculty at the School of International and Public A airs (SIPA), Columbia University. She has published variously on using and undertaking impact evaluations in agriculture, environment, climate change, infrastructure and humanitarian contexts. She also sits on the board of the Community of Evaluators, South Asia, and the Geneva based Humanitarian Quality Assurance Initiative.

Jian Qu is the Vice President of China Development Institute. His research focuses on industrial economy, regional development strategy, operation of state-owned assets and research on public policy. During his career of more than 20 years in China Development Institute, one of China’s top think tanks, he hosted more than 100 governmental research projects, provided strategy consulting for over 10 multinational companies, and conducted IPO feasibility studies and strategy consulting for more than 50 listed companies. In the past decade, Dr. Qu conducted several researches on China’s industrial policy at national, provincial and local level. In the Asian Evaluation Week, Dr. Qu will share his experience of evaluating the policy of industrial transfer in Guangdong Province.

Muhammad Quibria is currently Professor of Economics at Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD. Previously, he worked at Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank Institute for more than two decades where he held various senior positions. He held academic positions with University of Dhaka, University of Oxford, Boston University, FASID-GRIPS graduate program in International Development (Tokyo) and Singapore Management University. He is a consultant to ADB, World Bank and various UN agencies. Recipient of numerous academic awards including the Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Senior Commonwealth Academic Fellowship, Fulbright Senior Fellowship and UNU-WIDER Visiting Fellowship. Dr. Quibria’s research on development issues has appeared in leading academic journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Development Economics, International Economic Review and World Development. In addition, he contributes regular op-ed pieces to both national and international media. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University, and was a Postdoctoral fellow at Nu eld College, Oxford.

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Patricia Rogers is internationally known for her work to improve the utility, quality and feasibility of evaluation. She is Professor of Public Sector Evaluation at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government. She has worked with government, aid agencies, UN agencies and development banks on evaluations in various sectors and producing guidance on evaluation design and management. Previous projects have been undertaken with national government departments in Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, DfID, DFAT, USAID, UNDP, UNICEF, WB. She is the co-author of a comprehensive guide to e ective use of logic models and theories of change Purposeful Program Theory. She leads the international collaboration BetterEvaluation, a platform for generating and sharing knowledge about how to choose and use evaluation methods and processes to suit particular situations. Her work has been recognized by international awards, including the Gunnar Myrdal Evaluation Practice Award of the American Evaluation Society.

Veronique Salze-Lozac’h is Deputy Director General in the Independent Evaluation Department. She is an economist, with a strong political science background, and has worked for both the public and the private sector on foreign direct investments, inclusive growth, private sector development, and policy reforms in Africa and Asia. Prior to joining the ADB, Ms. Salze-Lozac’h was Senior Director of Economic Development and Chief Economist at The Asia Foundation, where she oversaw strategic planning for the Foundation’s economic activities and developed programs across 18 Asian countries in areas of policy reform, enabling business environments, regional cooperation, trade and women entrepreneurship. In this role she supported Asian initiatives to accelerate inclusive and sustainable economic growth and broaden economic opportunities.

Marco Segone is Director, Independent Evaluation O ce, at UN Women; Chair, United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), the network of Evaluation O ces of 46 UN agencies; and co-founder of EvalPartners, the global partnership for national evaluation capacities. Previously, he was responsible for the decentralized evaluation function as well as the national evaluation capacity development portfolios at the UNICEF Evaluation O ce; Regional Chief, Monitoring and Evaluation in the UNICEF Regional O ce for Europe and Central Asia; Regional O ce for Latin America and the Caribbean; Brazil Country O ce, and Niger Country O ce. Marco also worked in international NGOs in Albania, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand and Uganda. He has authored numerous publications including Evaluation for Equitable Development Results and How to Design and Manage Equity-Focused Evaluations.

Shinji Takagi, a Japanese national, joined the IMF’s Independent Evaluation O ce as Assistant Director in 2013 after twenty-three years of teaching at Osaka University, where he is now Professor Emeritus. As a specialist in international monetary economics, Mr. Takagi is the author or co-author of over 160 publications, including an undergraduate textbook that has sold 30,000 copies in the Japanese academic market. He began his career at the IMF and subsequently worked at the Bank of Japan and the Japanese Ministry of Finance. As Advisor at the IEO, he previously directed evaluations of the IMF’s surveillance and crisis management roles in Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, and Korea. His presentation at the 2016 Asian Evaluation Week is based on his latest work evaluating the IMF’s standby arrangements following the global  nancial crisis, including in the euro area. Mr. Takagi holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester.

Vinod Thomas is former Director General of the Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). During his 5 year term in ADB, he led IED on the assessment of ADB’s development e ectiveness and provided lessons to inform actions. He was responsible for evaluating policies, programs, and projects, as well as thematic issues at the regional, country, and sector levels. Prior to joining ADB, Vinod was also the Director General and Senior Vice-President of the Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

Vijayalakshmi Vadivelu is an Evaluation Advisor at the Independent Evaluation O ce of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). She has twenty- ve years of experience in international development policy, evaluation, and research. She has lead and managed evaluations of development and crisis related programmes at the global and country levels. She recently carried out an evaluation of contribution of global and regional Human Development Reports to public policy process and UNDPs contribution to anti-corruption and addressing drivers of corruption. Currently she is conducting an evaluation of UNDPs Strategic Plan and Global and Regional Programmes. She is a Visiting Professor at the Division of Global A airs, Rutgers University, New Jersey. Prior to joining UNDP, she conducted research on decentralization issues and gender in development at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology.

Ruijun Wang is Director-General of National Centre for Science and Technology Evaluation, Ministry of Science and Technology, PRC. Dr. Wang Ruijun is in charge of evaluations of the National S&T Major Projects, national key S&T programs, project, institute, budget and policies. He had been working in the Ministry of Transport, the Maritime Safety Administration, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and Supervision Department of CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He has long term engagement in STI management and development strategy research. He was responsible for the research on and formulation of the National “12th Five-Year” Development Plan for Science and Technology, the National “12th Five-Year” Plan for Indigenous Innovation Capacity Building and the related plans, National Medium and Long-Term Science and Technology Development Plan (2006-2020), the National “11th Five-Year” S&T development plan and planning system, relevant transportation plans and technical policies, and maritime development strategy.

Yong-jun Wang is a professor and a doctoral supervisor at the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), PRC. He also serves as Director of the Research Centre for Government Budget at CUFE, and Chief Expert of Beijing Financial Research Base, the trustee council member of China Fiscal Academy, Beijing Fiscal Academy, and Beijing Friendship Association for Non-Party Senior Intellectuals. He was selected among the  rst batch of the Trans-Century Talents of Ministry of Education in 2004, and has been receiving the State Council Allowance for Experts with Special Contributions since 2008. He was appointed as Special Auditor of the National Audit O ce and a member of the National Audit Guidelines Expert Committee in 2013, and Senior Specialist of China Development Bank in 2013. His research interests include public  nance management, government budget, corporate  nancial management, and has published numerous papers, monographs in these  elds. He received his PhD degree in Economics from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1994.

Ganeshan Wignaraja is Advisor to the O ce of the Chief Economist at the Asian Development Bank. During 2012-2015, he was the Director of Research of the ADBI Tokyo. In a career spanning over 25 years in international economics research, economic policy and advisory work, he has held positions at the ADB, the Commonwealth Secretariat, OECD, Oxford University, ODI, UN University Institute for New Technologies and a major UK consulting  rm. He has worked with major international development agencies including WB, IFC, DFID and USAID. He has published 15 books on international economics, regional integration, and development  nance. His books include: Asia’s Free Trade Agreements: How is Business Responding?; Connecting Asia, Infrastructure for Integrating South and Southeast Asia; and Production Networks and Enterprises in Asia. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Asian Economics. He holds a DPhil in Economics (Oxford University) and a BSc in Economics (London School of Economics).

Toshiyuki Yokota, a senior evaluation specialist at Asian Development Bank (ADB), with over 28 years of experience in transport, environmentally sustainable development, urban development, and performance evaluation. Prior to joining ADB, he worked at the World Bank; and the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. He has recently prepared country- , sector-, and project-level evaluations of ADB’s support in Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Kyrgyz Republic, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Tajikistan. Mr. Yokota earned his doctorate degree in transport from the University of Tokyo, received his Masters of International Relation and Public Administration from Columbia University, and Masters of Civil Engineering from Hokkaido University.

Naoyuki Yoshino is Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute; Professor Emeritus of Keio University, in Tokyo, Japan; and Chief Adviser at the Japan Financial Services Agency’s Financial Research Center. He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University. He has been a visiting professor at various universities including the University of New South Wales (Australia), and Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (France). He served as chairperson of Council on Foreign Exchange, a board member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan, chairperson of the Meeting of Japanese Government Bond Investors (Ministry of Finance), and was President of the Financial System Council of the Government of Japan. He was conferred honorary doctorates by the University of Gothenburg (Sweden,2004), by Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany,2013) and the Fukuzawa Award from Keio University for his contribution to academic research in 2013.

Zhengwei Zhang is the Deputy Director General of Department of International Economic and Financial Cooperation, Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China since June 2016. Before this assignment, he served as the Deputy Permanent Representative and Counsellor of the Permanent Representation of the PRC to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture from March 2013 to June 2016. In such a role, he also sat on the IFAD Executive Board and the IFAD Audit Committee. Representing China, Dr Zhang had been deeply involved in the Consultation on the Tenth Replenishment of IFAD’s Resources as well as the development of the IFAD Borrowing Framework. Dr Zhang has acquired nearly 20 years’ experiences of research and practice in  nance, public management and development, including his service from 2006 to 2008 as the Advisor to the Board Director of China in the ADB. He also worked in the private sector as the CFO at a joint venture from 1992 to 1995. Dr Zhang holds a PhD in Administration and an MS in Accounting. He is a member of ACCA and CICPA.

Min Zhao is Director of the Asia-Paci c Finance and Development Institute (AFDI), Associate Professor of Shanghai National Accounting Institute (SNAI). She graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University with a Ph.D. degree in economics in 2007. She attended SHIPDET (Shanghai International Program for Development Evaluation Training) that same year, and then IPDET in 2008. Since then, she began to explore practices and researches in evaluation. Now she is leading some evaluation research schemes for governments, training professionals in evaluation, and providing advisory services to local people’s congresses on PBB. She is also Head of CLEAR-SHIPDET Center (Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results). She has published almost 20 articles in international journals such as the Journal of Asian Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Public Finance Research, Asia and Paci c Economics.

Zhang Zhaoyang is Director-General of Center for Project Supervision and Management, National Health and Family Planning Commission (CPSM/NHFPC), PRC. He is a Research Fellow, and Part- time Professor of Peking University and Fudan University. He obtained his Master’s degree from School of Public Health, University of Illinois, USA (1992), and Doctoral from Fudan University (2007). He had worked as the DDG of the Department of Medical Administration, the Department of Primary Health and Maternal and Child Health, and the Department of Rural Health Management, NHFPC. He had led/participated in the project design and implementation of the World Bank- nanced Health Projects I, II, III, IV, VIII, IX and XI, had been the Director of DFID- nanced Health Policy Support Project (HPSP) and Global Health Support Project (GHSP). He was engaged in several project management and implementation of WHO, UNICEF, ADB, AUSAID and charitable programs for Caritas Hong Kong, Hong Kong’s Kadoorie, etc.

Tao Zuo is Director of the Centre of Foreign Investment and Loan A airs (National Center for Student Assistance Administration) of Ministry of Education, PRC. Being long engaged in the management and research of foreign capital utilization in education and student  nancial assistance, he has published a dozen of articles on academic journals, and has written and translated more than twenty books, including his scholarly monograph named Research and Practice on Asset Securitization Mode of China’s National Student Loan, etc. His main research areas are asset securitization, education investment performance evaluation, science of delivery of international  nancial organization loan, and accurate management on student  nancial assistance. Mr. Zuo Tao holds a Doctorate in Economy from Jilin University, P.R.China.