2007 Presenters

Jeffrey Engels
Dr. Deborah Storie
Juliet Willetts
Paul Crawford
Associate Professor Cynthia Mitchell
Chris Nelson
Dr. Francois Tsafack
Dr. Matthew Clarke
Dr. Simon Feeny
Dr. Linda Kelly
Joshua Pepall
Dr. Keith Horton
Kate Nethercott

Jeffrey Engels

Jeffrey Engels is a development practitioner from the United States and current post-graduate student at the School of Social and Environmental Inquiry, Development Studies, University of Melbourne. He was Director of the Center for Agribusiness & Rural Development and prior to that Director of the United States Department of Agriculture's Marketing Assistance Project in Armenia. Before going into private consulting, Mr. Engels was president of an export management company specializing in supplying infrastructure products for hospitals, schools, and affordable housing throughout Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Dr. Deborah Storie

Deborah Storie has worked with a community development team in rural Afghanistan, particularly in the field of veterinary practice. Since returning to Australia, she has participated in evaluations of rural community development projects in several other countries. Deborah studies and teaches aid and development, facilitates training in community development (mainly in Afghanistan), and supports TEAR Australia as Vice-Chair of the Board and member of the Project Review Committee.

Juliet Willetts

Juliet Willetts is a researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney (www.isf.uts.edu.au). She specialises in interdisciplinary research that supports improvement to international development aid and sustainable water management.

Paul Crawford

Paul Crawford is a consultant with Aid-IT Solutions Pty Ltd (www.aid-it.com.au) and an adjunct research fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney. He specialises in international aid monitoring and evaluation and planning.

Associate Professor Cynthia Mitchell

Cynthia Mitchell is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney (www.isf.uts.edu.au). She specialises in individual and institutional learning for sustainability, with a particular interest in the provision and management of better infrastructure for water and the built environment.

Chris Nelson

Chris Nelson is an M&E specialist working with AusAID on the Philippines program under the bi-lateral country program. Chris has previously worked as an economist with the OECD in Paris, taught development programs in Europe, Africa and Australia, and has been a project officer with various programs in Southern Africa. He is in the final stages of his PhD in M&E at the Institute for Sustainable Development, University of Technology, Sydney. His special interest is in the use of alternative methodologies for development project evaluation.

Dr. Francois Tsafack

Francois Tsafack is a Quality Advisor at World Vision Australia, a role that includes conducting evaluations, baselines and establishing a capacity building culture. He has a doctorate in public health and is a member of the Australasian Evaluation Society. His professional interests include human ecosystems modeling; anthropology and community development; and, health impact assessment (human and environmental) of development projects with an emphasis on vector/water borne diseases.

Dr. Matthew Clarke

Matthew Clarke is Director and Senior Lecturer of the International and Community Development Program at Deakin University. Matthew has published three books, four edited books over 30 book chapters and refereed journal articles. He also contributes to The Canberra Times, The Age and ABC radio and television. Matthew undertakes regular evaluations of community development projects in the Pacific and South-East Asia for various NGOs, with a particular interest in HIV/AIDS and health-related projects.

Dr. Simon Feeny

Simon Feeny is an ARC post-doctoral Fellow at RMIT University. Simon has published over 20 journal articles and book chapters. During 2002, Simon was an intern at the United Nations University’s World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki. In 2005, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford. Prior to his post at RMIT, Simon was employed by the Melbourne Institute for Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne.

Dr. Linda Kelly

Linda Kelly is an independent consultant specialising in areas of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment. Linda works with Australian and international NGOs and AusAID across several areas of program design, management and assessment.

Joshua Pepall

Joshua Pepall is the Accountability and Capacity Building Advisor for World Vision Sri Lanka. Over the last 10 years he has worked on development, relief and rehabilitation projects in Australia, Asia, the Middle East and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In his current role he acts as World Vision field representative for the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership International and the Emergency Capacity Building Initiative. His professional interests include psycho-social intervention, torture and trauma recovery, community relief and rehabilitation programming.

Dr. Keith Horton

Keith Horton is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia. He co-edited Globalisation and Equality (Routledge, 2004) with Haig Patapan, and Global Ethics (Paragon, forthcoming) with Thomas Pogge. He has also published a number of articles on the moral implications of world poverty and related themes, and is currently writing a book, Should We Give to Aid Agencies? (to be published by Edinburgh University Press).

Kate Nethercott

Kate is a gender specialist in the Gender Equality Thematic Group in AusAID. She is responsible for producing the gender equality policy for AusAID. She has previously worked in the PNG Branch in AusAID. She has a strong interest in monitoring and evaluation systems.