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Thomaz Kauark Chianca is an international program evaluation consultant based in Brazil with more than twenty-five years of experience working across over twenty-seven countries in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. He leads COMEA Relevant Evaluations and has worked extensively with foundations, NGOs, governments, and international cooperation agencies. His recent work focuses on rubric-enhanced evaluation, theory of change, and sustainability-inclusive evaluation, including as a core member of the Footprint Evaluation Initiative. His sectoral experience spans early childhood development, education, environmental sustainability, gender equity, poverty reduction, and systems change.

E. Jane Davidson is an internationally recognized evaluation specialist based in the United States, with over thirty years of experience in evaluation theory, practice, and capacity building. She is best known for developing evaluation rubrics as a methodology for making clear evaluative judgments and has contributed extensively to qualitative and mixed-methods causal inference, synthesis, and sustainability-inclusive evaluation. She is a founding member of the Footprint Evaluation Initiative and has worked with governments, foundations, UN agencies, and development organizations across North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania.

Andy Rowe is an evaluation economist based in Canada with more than four decades of experience in evaluation, environmental sustainability, and international development. He has worked extensively with governments, development banks, UN agencies, and philanthropic foundations, leading and advising complex evaluations across climate change, natural resource management, conflict resolution, and governance. He is a founding member of the Footprint Evaluation Initiative and has worked across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Pacific, with professional experience spanning more than fifteen countries.

Patricia J. Rogers is a senior evaluation expert based in Australia with more than forty years of experience in evaluation practice, research, teaching, and evaluation capacity strengthening. She is the founder of BetterEvaluation, a global open-access platform supporting informed choices about evaluation methods and processes. Her work spans government, development banks, UN agencies, NGOs, and philanthropic organizations, with extensive international engagement across multiple regions. She is widely recognized for her contributions to theory-based evaluation, evaluation of complex interventions, and the practical use of theories of change.

Gonzalo Hernández Licona is an economist based in Mexico with more than twenty-five years of experience in social policy evaluation, poverty measurement, and evidence-informed policymaking. He is the founding Executive Secretary of CONEVAL and has held senior advisory and research roles with organizations such as 3ie, the United Nations, UNICEF, IFAD, IPA, and the Global Evaluation Initiative. His work has influenced evaluation systems and policy debates in more than sixty countries worldwide. Currently, he is the director of the Social Observatory of the Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias (CEEY), a Mexican think tank.

Miché Ouédraogo is a public policy researcher and evaluation specialist originally from Burkina Faso and currently based in Canada. He has more than fourteen years of experience in monitoring, evaluation, and learning, working across over a dozen countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He has supported governments, UN agencies, development banks, and international NGOs, and currently serves as President of the African Evaluation Association, playing a leading role in global evaluation capacity development.

Ana María Linares is a senior evaluation professional from Colombia with over thirty years of experience in international development and evaluation. She spent more than a decade at the Inter-American Development Bank’s Office of Evaluation and Oversight, where she led corporate evaluations, advised on evaluation policy, and served as Acting Director. Her career includes extensive work across Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as global engagements through multilateral development banks, UN agencies, and international evaluation networks.

Thania is a senior evaluation and public policy specialist with over 20 years of experience helping governments and international organisations transform how they use evidence to improve policies and outcomes.

She previously served as Head of the Evaluation Unit at CONEVAL (Mexico’s National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy), where she led the national evaluation system, coordinated more than 2,800 evaluations, and worked closely with senior government officials to institutionalise the use of evidence in decision-making.

Thania has worked with UN agencies, governments, development banks, and foundations across Latin America, the Caribbean, MENA, and Central Asia to support evaluation system reforms, strategic evaluations, synthesis studies, and large-scale capacity development initiatives.

Her work focuses on strengthening institutions, designing incentive structures and practical mechanisms, and embedding evaluation and learning into everyday decision-making—helping organisations move from compliance-driven evaluation to real use of evidence for learning, accountability, and improved public outcomes.

Lycia is a technical leader in impact and evaluation, and an applied microeconomist with deep expertise in evaluation methods and evidence-based policy design. She combines this technical knowledge with senior leadership experience across academia, government, and international organisations. Currently, she is a Professor of Public Policy at the São Paulo School of Economics (FGV EESP) and has worked extensively across Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the United States.

Lycia holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Government from and a Master’s degree in Development Economics from SOAS, University of London. Her work focuses on policy design and evaluation, particularly in human capital, social impact, and climate action. She helps institutions develop data-driven, evidence-based approaches tailored to their specific goals and operational needs.