Policy Evaluation in the Era of COVID-19 (PDF)

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 United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (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 United Nations Development Programme (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 UN Evaluation Group (UNEG), instructor at the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET), and was a founding board member of the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA). He holds a DPhil and post-graduate degree in Geography and Education and is the recipient of numerous awards and extensively published.