Indran A Naidoo Editor

Pearl Eliadis is Associate Professor (Professional) at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. She also has a private law practice with a focus on human rights, national institutions and democratic development and has worked with the UN, the EU, and the OECD in several sub-Saharan and Asian countries on a range of national and global projects at the intersection of evaluation and the rule of law. She is a member of the Quebec Bar Association and the Ontario Law Society and held the position of president of the Human Rights section of the Quebec Bar for three terms until 2021. She also lectures at McGill’s Faculty of Law and is a full member of McGill’s Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.

Indran A. Naidoo is the Director of the Independent Office of Evaluation of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Rome, Italy. As former Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the UNDP, New York he transformed the evaluation function in terms of independence, output and engagement, producing over 150 country and corporate evaluations. The National Evaluation Capacity series grew to become the largest and most influential platform for advancing evaluation at the government level. Previous roles included that of Deputy Director-General of M&E at the independent Public Service Commission, and M&E Director at the Department of Land Affairs. He served as Vice-Chair of UNEG, instructor at IPDET, and was a founding board member of the SAMEA . He holds a D. Phil, and post-graduate degree in Geography and Education and is the recipient of numerous awards and extensively published.

Ray C. Rist is one of the creators and co-directors of the original IPDET and former president of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS). Retired from the World Bank, Dr. Rist continues to advise organizations and national governments throughout the world on how to design and build results-based M&E systems. His career includes 15 years in the U.S. Government with senior appointments in both the executive and legislative branches. He has held professorships at John Hopkins, Cornell, and George Washington Universities and has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. He has authored and edited 35 books, written more than 140 articles, and lectured in more than 85 countries.