Appendix 3: CV of Dr Alison Evans
SUMMARY
OF
EXPERTISE
· Analysis & Evaluation:
economist with 30 years of experience working on poverty, public
policy, aid and development effectiveness. Reputation for big
picture and policy-relevant thinking and an ability to bring together
intellectual/academic rigour with a practical focus on delivery
and results. Extensive advisory and evaluation experience across
the bilateral and multilateral development system. Wide geographic
experience spanning Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and South Eastern
Europe.
· Strategy & Leadership:
Over 20 years of experience leading strategy processes in a variety
of roles and capacities, including as a senior economist at the
World Bank and, most recently, as Executive Director of the Overseas
Development Institute - the UK's leading international development
and humanitarian affairs think tank.
· Communication & Interpersonal Skills:
excellent communication skills with a track record in representing
organisations nationally and internationally to governments, donors,
the media and the general public. Strong public speaking and facilitation
skills involving small and large groups.
· Financial & Management Skills:
Leading an annual budget of £25m+ with 200 research and non-research
staff at ODI. Led a major process of strategic repositioning,
organisational change and office relocation all within a tightly
managed budget. Extensive people, team and project management
experience.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Independent Consultant
April 2013 to present
Focus areas: development cooperation, development
financing, evaluation, poverty and women's empowerment.
Institutional Roles
Ongoing
Non-Executive Director, Oxford Policy Management,
UK
Vice-Chair, Board of Trustees, BBC Media Action
Board Member, North-South Institute, Ottawa, Canada
External Grant Committee Member, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Denmark
External Advisor, Program for Results Review, OPCS,
World Bank
Scientific Advisory Board Member, Centre for Global
Cooperation, Duisberg, Germany
Chair, ESRC/DFID Poverty Research Commissioning Panel
Recent Consultancy Projects
January - September 2014: Strategic Advisor, German
Multilateral Organisations Assessment - Methodology and Review,
BMZ/ adelphi
January - May 2014: Background Paper for World Bank
South Asia Regional Strategy 'Gender Equality and Shared Prosperity
- What will it take?'
January-March 2014: External Reviewer - Multilateral
Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN) 2.0
July - September 2013: Options for Mobilising
Concessional Finance - Background Paper for the African Development
Bank, Resource Mobilisation Strategy with Pedro Martins,
Annalisa Prezzon & Edward Hedger (ODI)
June-August 2013: Women, Collective Action and
Agency - What Works? Background Paper for World Bank Report
on Voice, Agency and Participation
April - December 2013: External Reviewer, UK Multilateral
Aid Review -Update
Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London
UK May 2009 to April 2013
Executive Director
· Intellectual leadership and quality assurance
across the full range of ODI programmes
· Leadership on strategy and policy development
· Leading the Senior Management Team to
ensure that the Institute delivers on high-quality applied research,
practical policy advice and policy focused dissemination and debate
· Leading on strategic institutional partnerships
and fundraising
· Setting and delivering the annual budget
and overseeing financial monitoring
· Leading on major external initiatives,
engagement with media and representing ODI externally with stakeholders,
including UK HMG and the UK Parliament
· Working with the ODI Board to ensure effective
governance of the Institute
· Managing revenue growth of 30%, establishment
growth of 40% and a major investment in a new fit-for-purpose
office building
Additional Roles/Responsibilities:
· External Reviewer of the DFID UK Multilateral
Aid Review
· Trustee of BBC Media Action (formerly
BBC World Service Trust)
· Chair of the BSI Advisory Board
· Chair of the HPG, Advisory Board
· Network Council Member Climate Change
and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)
· Advisory Board member World Development
Report 2012
· Member of the World Bank's Advisory Council
on Gender 2011/12
· Member of the Oxford University International
Development Department Council 2010-2013
· External advisor World Bank, IEG PRSC
Evaluation
· External advisor World Bank, IEG Trust
Fund Evaluation
· External advisor WFP School Feeding Programme
Evaluation
· External reviewer Global Partnership for
Education
· Numerous appearances at UK Parliamentary
Select Committees: IDC, PAC and House of Lords Economic Affairs
Committee.
Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London.
UK August 2006 to April 2009
Director of Programmes, Poverty and Public Policy
Group
· Leading and managing a group of 30 researchers
and support staff in four programme teams with an annual turnover
of +/- £2.5 million.
· Leading a restructuring of programme teams
to improve strategic focus and internal coherence plus a stronger
focus on financial and business processes as the basis for
improving financial performance.
· Senior management team member with lead
responsibility for the 'Future of Aid' cross cutting theme and
the ODI Annual Retreat
· High level briefings of UK and international
policy makers and development representatives from political parties
· Senior management training 2007
Projects:
· Chair of the Food Security Panel of the
Australian Research Awards 2008;
· Review of the Uganda Joint Assistance
Strategy (DFID);
· Co-organiser of the Dutch-World Bank conference
on the 'Future of the World Bank';
· Member of the Transatlantic Task Force
on Development (GMF);
· Team Leader: Review of Poverty and
Social Impact Analysis (World Bank);
· Team Leader Review of SWAps in Agriculture
and Rural Development (Global Donor Platform on Rural Development),
· Team Leader: Design of the Governance
and Poverty Policy Analysis and Advice Programme Vietnam (DFID);
· Co-author of IFAD's 2007 Annual Review
of Results
· Facilitator of the Ghana Joint Assistance
Strategy (DFID).
Institute of Development Studies, Brighton. UK
July 2005-July 2006
Research Fellow
· Theme leader on 'Aid'
· Team Leader - Independent Evaluation
of Rwanda's PRSP 2002-2005.
· Joint author of a Framework for Evaluating
the Paris Declaration, OECD/DAC Evaluation Working Group.
· Lecturer on the MPhil Development Studies,
MA Governance and MA Gender
· Presented at Select Committee briefings,
House of Commons seminars and workshops.
Independent Consultant, UK
June
2000-July 2005
Consultant/Advisor
· Lead Expert on the Independent External
Evaluation of IFAD, March 2004 - April 2005.
· Lead Reviewer Donor Harmonisation in Albania,
November 2004, DFID/EC.
· Lead Reviewer Donor Harmonisation in Republic
of Serbia May 2004, Govt. of Serbia.
· Lead DFID/ODI PRSP Monitoring & Synthesis
Project, March 2001- 2004.
· Lead Evaluation of the PRSP Process
in Ethiopia. World Bank, Operations Evaluation
Department, 2003.
· Lead The Design and Application of
MTEFs and their Evolving Linkages with PRSPs.
Eight country study (Team manager, and co-author of final synthesis
report with Malcolm Holmes) DFID UK/ODI, 2002/3.
· Lead PRSPs in Conflict-affected Countries
- Report and Strategic Framework (with Lyndsay Hilker Mclean,
Andrew Norton, Erin Coyle and Laure Helene Piron) DFID UK/ODI,
2002.
· SPA 2002 Background Paper on Donor Alignment
and General Budget Support for SPA Technical Missions on Coordination
and Harmonisation.
· Review of DFID Support to the Tanzania
Poverty Monitoring System, 2002
· SPA/World Bank 2001 Stocktake of Progress
in Implementing the SPA 5 Agenda
· Annual Policy and Performance Review (APPR)
and Advisor on the Country Assistance Plan Process, DFID Tanzania,
2001-3.
· Institutionalisation of the PRSP Processes
and Monitoring. Case Study Author - Tanzania. SPA/ODI, 2000-2001.
· Evaluation of IDA Lending
(IDA 10-12), Poverty Reduction, Operations Evaluation Department.
World Bank, 2000.
World Bank, Washington DC
September 1994 - April 2000
Senior Economist and Senior Evaluation Specialist
· Senior Evaluation Specialist - Task Manager:
The Effectiveness of the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy
1990-1999', OED
· Senior Evaluation Specialist - Task manager:
The Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 1997/8, OED
· Co-Author and Core Team Member- World
Development Report Team 1997 - The State in a Changing World.
· Economist- East Asia and Pacific, Country
Operations Division 1 - Cambodia.
· Economist - Poverty and Social Policy
Department
· Team member of the Kazakhstan Social Protection
Project.
· Young Professional 1994-1995.
University of Sussex, Brighton. UK
September
1990 - August 1994
Lecturer in Economics
· Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses
in microeconomics, labour economics, development economics, gender
and development.
· Co-course director - MA Economics (Development)
1993/4
Bristol City Council, UK
September 1989 - August 1990
Economist, Planning Department
Institute of Development Studies, Brighton. UK
August1984 -August
1989
Research Officer
QUALIFICATIONS
| 1992 - 1996 | Ph.D (Development Studies), Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.
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| 1983 - 1984 | MPhil Economics of Development, with Distinction, Cambridge University.
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| 1980 - 1983 | B.A (Hons) Economics, First Class, University of Sussex.
Gladstone Memorial Prize for best 3rd Year Economics Dissertation
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