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Environmental Studies, Kyoto University in Japan; Division for Global Affairs, Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey; and the International Studies Pro- gramof theUniversity ofMontana,Missoula.Hewas educated at theUniversities ofHelsinki andLund,andholdsaPhDinSocial andEconomicGeography.Hehas authored/edited several books and publishedmore than 30 peer reviewed articles andbookchapters on topics related to the environment, natural resourcesmanage- ment, environmentalhazards, andevaluation.HisbookEvaluatingEnvironment in InternationalDevelopmentwaspublishedbyRoutledge-Earthscan inMay2014. In October2012, theEuropeanEvaluationSocietyawardedhispaperonenvironmen- tal evaluation for a “distinguished contribution to evaluationpractice.” RobD. van denBergPresident, International Development EvaluationAssocia- tion and Visiting Professor, International Development Institute, King’s College (London), isagraduateof theStateUniversityofGroningen in theNetherlands.He is also aVisiting Fellow at theCentre forDevelopment Impact at the Institute of SocialStudies inBrighton,UK.He isamemberof theMonitoringAdvisoryGroup of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation. From 2004 to 2014hewasDirectorof the IndependentEvaluationOfficeof theGlobalEnviron- ment Facility inWashington, DC and before that Director of Evaluation of the DutchMinistry of ForeignAffairs from 1999 to 2004. He has been active in the DACEvaluationNetwork (Chair from2002–2004), theUNEvaluationGroupand theEvaluationCooperationGroupof the InternationalFinancial Institutions.Since 2015he is providing independent evaluation advice to development agencies. IoannisVasileiou isanAgriculturalSpecialist,with theClimate-SmartAgriculture (CSA) Upscaling Team, at the World Bank, supported by CCAFS and IFPRI. Ioannis also serves as a ScienceOfficer on Policies& Institutions for theCGIAR ProgramonClimateChange,Agriculture andFoodSecurity (CCAFS).His current work focuses on issues related toglobal change and resilience, aswell as enabling governance, institutions and financingmechanisms for agriculture. He has previ- ously worked on sustainability issues in the European Commission, the United Nations, and thenon-profit sector.Heholds aMaster of InternationalAffairs from Columbia University, where he specialized in Economic and Political Develop- ment, aswell as a jointMsc-MBA in IndustrialManagement, focusing onEnergy and Environment, from the National Technical University of Athens and the University ofPiraeus. RomanWindisch is the Deputy Country Director of Swiss State Secretariat for EconomicAffairsSECOinVietnam.Heis responsible forSwitzerland’seconomic development cooperation program on infrastructure financing and private sector development.Before, heworked for several years at headquarters as anevaluation officer in SECO’s quality assurance division. He holds aMaster degree inGeog- raphy from theUniversity of Zurich and aDiploma on SustainableDevelopment fromDeMontfortUniversityLeicester. 350 About theAuthors