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Plenary speakers and special lecturersPLENARY SPEAKERS
Howard White, Chief Executive Officer Howard is Chief Executive Officer of the Campbell Collaboration. Previously he was the founding Executive Director of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and before that led the impact evaluation programme of the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. He started his career as an academic researcher at the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague, and the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. As an academic he leans toward work with policy relevance, and working in the policy field leans toward academic rigour as a basis for policy and practice. His other interests are running and walking, preferably long distances in remote places, and reading English history.
Dr. Kevin J. Olival, Vice President for Research at EcoHealth Alliance in New York, USA He is the Modeling and Analytics coordinator for the USAID PREDICT-2 project, and also oversees zoonotic disease surveillance efforts in multiple countries under the project. Dr. Olival’s research over the last 15 years has focused on understanding the ecology and evolution of emerging infectious diseases, with a current focus on developing analytical tools to forecast and prioritize the discovery of viral zoonoses. He has been at the forefront of recent international investigations to understand the origins and transmission of: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in Saudi Arabia; Reston Ebola virus in the Philippines; Nipah virus in Bangladesh and Malaysia; and coronaviruses in Southeast Asia and China. He is passionate about using sound science to inform policy for both public health and environmental conservation.
Madeleine McKinnon, Director, Impact and Learning – Paul G. Allen Philanthropies Madeleine leads measurement, evaluation and learning of philanthropic investments by Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen. Previously, Madeleine oversaw monitoring and evaluation at Conservation International and was responsible for reporting on institutional achievements across CI’s global programs in 25 different countries. Over the past 15 years, she has worked on planning, assessing and reporting of conservation impacts on biodiversity and human well-being at site and regional scales with research institutes, NGOs, and private consultancies. She is currently the principal investigator of an interdisciplinary working group on Evidence-based Conservation as part of the Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP). She has published in high impact journals, including Nature and Science, on aspects of evidence-based policy and practice, program evaluation, systematic planning, and prioritization of conservation investments.
Originally from London, she graduated from the University of Edinburgh with B.Sc. in Ecology, and has a Master’s in Applied Ecology and Conservation from the University of East Anglia. She earned a PhD in program evaluation from the University of Queensland, Australia. She currently lives in San Francisco.
SPECIAL LECTURERS
JYOTSNA PURI (JO), Head of the Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund Bio Dr. Jo Puri is leads the Independent Evaluation Office of the Green Climate Fund. Previously, she was the Deputy Executive Director and Head of Evaluation at the International Initiative of Impact Evaluation (3ie). Dr. Puri is also adjunct associate professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York where she teaches development evaluation. Jo has more than 22 years of experience in policy research and development evaluation and has worked in several organizations including the World Bank, Columbia University and the UN. Her dissertation related work was instrumental in identifying biases that creep into policy evaluation and specifically in environmental policy. She was also amongst the first researchers to examine the question of measuring the poverty impacts of rural road building. In other research she has demonstrated and advocated for applications of economic theory and modelling with disaggregated data and measuring heterogeneous impacts. She has undertaken and led evaluation related work for UNDP, UNICEF, GEF and the MacArthur Foundation. She has examined and advised on evidence based climate change and environmental policy, advocacy for policy and behaviour change, community based engagements for improving vaccine coverage, methods for rigorously evaluating effectiveness of humanitarian action, behaviour change and climate change policies. Her research has focused on analyzing poverty impacts of policy and infrastructure investments in Asia and Latin America. Her other areas of work include examining impacts of policies in the areas of environment, agriculture, health and climate change. She was also a contributing author of UNEP’s green economy report. At UNEP she provided thematic and strategic advice on program development and engaging governments at various levels for effective delivery of outcomes for equitable, growth transitions.
Jo’s academic qualifications include a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Resource Economics and a Masters in Development Economics. She is a reviewer for the Journal of Environment and Development, and for the Journal of Environment. She has led large teams successfully in both the academic arena and in the policy arena. She can be followed on twitter @jo_puri
Nick Salafsky, Director of Foundations of Success Defining, Assessing & Using Evidence in Conservation Practice Nick Salafsky is the Director of Foundations of Success, a non-profit organization that seeks to improve the practice of conservation. Nick has spent over 25 years working with conservation practitioners around the world to define clear and practical measures of conservation success, determine evidence-based principles for using conservation strategies, and develop the knowledge and skills of individuals and organizations to do good adaptive management. Nick is also the Product Manager for Miradi Adaptive Management Software and Co-Chair of the Conservation Measures Partnership, a community of practice composed of many of the world’s leading conservation organizations and agencies. Nick is based in the Washington DC area where he spends his free time cooking, coaching his daughters’ sports teams, playing ice hockey and ultimate frisbee, and reading alternative history |
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