Day 1

Moderator

• Harvey Garcia, UNDP IEO, Evaluation Specialist

Panelists

• Anupam Anand, Global Environment Facility, World Bank Group, Senior Evaluation Officer
• Liu Yongfeng, Guangdong International Engineering Consulting Corporation, China, Deputy General Manager
• Serdar Bayryyev,  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Toshiuki Yokota, Principal Evaluation Specialist, Asian Development Bank, Senio

Moderator

• Ketevan Nozadze, GEI/World Bank Group, Evaluation Officer

Panelists

• Andy Rowe, Footprint Evaluation, Canada, Independent Consultant 
• Camille Spencer, Ministry of Planning and Development, Trinidad and Tobago, Programme Director, M&E
• Eddy Garcia, Ministry of Planning, Costa Rica, Head of Evaluation Unit
• Gensuo Jia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, China, Professor

Moderator

• Messay Tassew, UNDP IEO, Regional Evaluation Adviser for Africa

Panelists

• Anne-Claire Luzot, World Food Programme, Director of Evaluation
• James A Jaber, Liberia Revenue Authority, Liberia, Assistant Commissioner for Real Estate Tax Division
• Vijayalakshmi Vadivelu, UNDP IEO, Chief of Section, Corporate/Thematic Evaluations

Discussion Themes

Moderator

• Saltanat Rasulova, UNDP IEO, Regional Evaluation Adviser for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

Panelists

• Dongwan Yang, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Commerce, China, Assistant Researcher
• Erdenechimeg Ulziisuren, Mongolian Evaluation Association, Mongolia, Founder and President
• Joseph Muserero

Moderator  

• Denis Jobin, Co-Chair, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) EvalSDGs—EvalPartners, and Senior Evaluation Specialist

Panelists

• Emmanuel Jimenez, Asian Development Bank, Director General, Independent Evaluation Department
• Gonzalo Hernández Licona, GEI, Mexico, Evaluation Specialist
• Patrick Duong, Governance (Public Goods and Services), UNDP Global Lead
• Sohini Mookherjee, CLEAR South Asia, India,

Moderator

• Thomas Rossmueller, UNICEF, Partnerships and Capacity Development Officer

Panelists

• Ada Ocampo,International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), President
• Bala Yusuf-Yunusa, Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals, Nigeria, Senior Technical Adviser
• Nea-Mari Heinonen, Development Evaluation Unit, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland, Deputy Director and Lead Evaluation Sp

Moderator

• Jozef Vaessen, Evaluation Advisor, Global Evaluation Initiative, IEG, World Bank

Panellists

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Moderator

• Timothy Lubanga, Commissioner for Monitoring and Evaluation, Office of the Prime Minister, Uganda

Panellists

• Joao Cardoso, President, National Statistical Institute, Cabo Verde
• Nemariam Yohanes Mengistu, Director, Ministry of Finance and National Development, Eritrea
• Elena Kukharevich, First Deputy Chairperson, National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus
• Camille Spencer, Programme Director, Monitoring and

Moderator

• Alison Evans, Director General, Evaluation, World Bank Group

Panellists

• Kevin Watkins, Visiting Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics, and former CEO at Save the Children UK and the Overseas Development Institute
• George Gray Molina, Head of Strategic Engagement and Chief Economist, UNDP
• Isabella Kiplagat, Economist, National Treasury and Planning, Kenya
• El Hassan El Mansouri, General Secretary, Nationa

Moderator

• Indran Naidoo, Director, Independent Office of Evaluation, IFAD

Panellists

• Mita Marra, Associate Professor of Political Economics and Policy Evaluation, University of Naples “Federico II”
• Dugan Fraser, Programme Manager, GEI, World Bank Group

Is evaluation innovative and nimble enough for a rapidly changing world? Are innovations aligning with need?