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Invited Speakers

International Keynote Speakers

Stewart I. Donaldson
Professor and Chair of Psychology, Director of the Institute of Organizational and Program Evaluation Research

Dean of the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University, Stewart Donaldson continues to develop and lead one of the most extensive and rigorous graduate programs specializing in evaluation. He has taught numerous university courses, professional development workshops, and has mentored and coached more than 100 graduate students and evaluation professionals during the past two decades. Dr. Donaldson has also provided evaluation services to more than 100 different organizations and secured more than 30 extramural research and evaluation grants and contracts. 

His current grants with the Rockefeller Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation are focused on improving evaluation practice in developing countries.  He is serving a 3-year elected term on the Board of the American Evaluation Association, is a fellow of the Western Psychological Association, and is on the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of Evaluation, New Directions for Evaluation, Evaluation and Program Planning, Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation, and the SAGE Research Methods Online.

Dr. Donaldson has authored or co-authored more than 200 evaluation reports, scientific journal articles, and chapters, and his recent books and volumes with colleagues include Emerging Practices in Development Evaluation (Information Age, forthcoming); Advancing Validity in Outcome Evaluation: Theory and Practice (Jossey-Bass, 2011); Social Psychology and Evaluation(Guilford, 2011); Applied Positive Psychology: Improving Everyday Life, Health, Schools, Work, and Society(Routledge Academic, 2011); What Counts as Credible Evidence in Applied Research and Evaluation Practice?(Sage, 2008); Program Theory-Driven Evaluation Science: Strategies and Applications(Routledge, 2007); Applied Psychology: New Frontiers and Rewarding Careers (Erlbaum, 2006); and Evaluating Social Programs and Problems: Visions for the New Millennium(Routledge Academic, 2003).

Dr. Donaldson has been honored with Early Career Achievement Awards from the American Evaluation Association and Western Psychological Association.

Penny Hawe,
Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, AHFMR Health Scientist, University of Calgary, Canada.

Penny Hawe was recruited from Australia to the University of Calgary and holds the position of  Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences. She became a Health Scientist of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research in 2007, having previously been an AHFMR  Senior Scholar. Her undergraduate degree is in community psychology from the University of New South Wales. She has an MPH from the University of Sydney and a PhD from the University of Melbourne. In 2004 Penny received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to establish the Population Health Intervention Research Centre.  She was the Director of PHIRC from 2004-2010. She was the Markin Chair in Health and Society from 2000-2010. From 2006-2010 she was the Co-Chair of the Population Health Intervention Research Initiative for Canada, representing the Institute Advisory Board of CIHR's Institute of Population and Public Health. She is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. Penny co-authored the seminal text ‘Evaluating Health Promotion. A Health Worker’s Guide’ and recently co-edited, with Judith Ottoson, a special issue of New Directions in Evaluation on the theories of knowledge change in evaluation (2009;124:1-108). Her interests include: complex community-level interventions to promote health; social network analysis; theory of population health interventions;  whole school approaches to mental health promotion; methods and ethics in population health. Her main work is in the theory and methods of complex systems thinking in population-level policy and program interventions.

Sandra Nutley,
Professor of Public Management, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Sandra is Professor of Public Management at the University of Edinburgh, where she is also Director of the Research Unit for Research Utilisation.  In addition to her academic role, she is a non-executive director of the Social Work Inspection Agency Board (Scotland).

Sandra has an international reputation for her work on research use and evidence-informed policy and practice, and she is a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences on these issues.  She has written many papers and her research on this topic is captured in her recent book on Using Evidence (Nutley et al 2007, Policy Press).  In 2010 she edited and contributed to a theme issue of the Evidence & Policy journal (Vol 6. Issue 2), which considered evidence and policy in six European countries.
Sandra has sought to practice what she preaches on the importance of dialogue and interaction between academics and those working in policy and practice roles. Much of her own research is applied and is undertaken in partnership with ‘user’ organisations.  She has also been a member of several policy advisory groups. 

From 2006-2009, Sandra chaired a group which reviewed the supply incentives for knowledge exchange activities in Scottish universities and how these can be enhanced, what can be done to stimulate public policy and practice demand for the knowledge available from universities, and what is needed to improve the interaction between the supply and demand sides of this equation. 
Prior to joining academia, Sandra worked in local government in the UK and since then she has been seconded to work with several public sector organisations, including the Scottish Government. She has also worked on a consultancy basis with a wide range of public and voluntary sector organisations.

National Keynote Speakers

Patricia Rogers,
Professor of Public Sector Evaluation, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Patricia Rogers is Professor in Public Sector Evaluation, at RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Australia. She teaches with the Australian and New Zealand School of Government and The Evaluators Institute, George Washington University. She leads the BetterEvaluation project, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, an international collaboration to improve evaluation practice and theory by sharing information about evaluation methods.

Professor Rogers has worked in public sector evaluation and research for more than 25 years, across a wide range of programs, including health, early childhood, education, community development, Indigenous housing, criminal justice, and agriculture, and levels of government. In addition to her work with government and non-government agencies in Australia and New Zealand, she has worked with national and international organizations in Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, the UK, and the US. She is a current elected member of the Board of the American Evaluation Association.

Her publications include Purposeful Program Theory (Jossey-Bass, 2011) with Sue Funnell and contributions to the Encyclopedia of Evaluation, the Sage Handbook of Evaluation, the Handbook of Practical Evaluation, Evaluating the Complex and Evaluation Roots, with Jane Davidson.

Her work has been recognised by the AES’ Evaluation Training and Services Award for outstanding contributions to the profession of evaluation, the AES’ Caulley-Tulloch Prize for Pioneering Literature in Evaluation, the AES’ Best Evaluation Study Award, awarded to the consortium led by Professor Rogers for the evaluation of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2000-2004, and the American Evaluation Association’s Myrdal Award for Evaluation Practice, presented to an evaluation practitioner who has made a substantial and cumulative contribution to the professional practice of evaluation, and whose work brings to life the AEA’s Guiding Principles for Evaluation.

Ian Anderson,
Head of Murrup Barak, Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development, University of Melbourne
Former Director of Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit

Professor Ian Anderson has worked in Aboriginal (Koori) health for more than 20 years: as an Aboriginal Health Worker, in health education, as a general practitioner and as an academic. He was the Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, then the Medical Adviser to the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care. Ian's family are Palawa Trowerna from the Pyemairrenner mob in Tasmania which includes Trawlwoolway and Plairmairrenner and related clans.

Ian has a professional background in medicine and social sciences. He has written widely on issues related to Aboriginal health, identity and culture, and has also been involved in Aboriginal health policy development. He holds the Foundation Chair in Indigenous Health at the University of Melbourne where he is the Head of the Murrup Barak Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development. Ian also chairs the National Indigenous Health Equality Council, which advises the Australian Government on its progress towards meeting its Close the Gap health targets for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Peter Shergold,
Chair of the NSW Public Service Commission; Macquarie Group Fdn Professor and Head of the Centre for Social Impact, UNSW; Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney; formerly Secretary of the Australian Government's Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Peter Shergold was a CEO in the Australian Public Service for two decades. For five years from February 2003, Dr Shergold was Australia’s most senior public administrator, serving as Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Dr Shergold is now the Macquarie Group Foundation Professor at the Centre for Social Impact.

Dr Shergold has significant Board experience in the public, private and ‘third’ sectors. In government he served on the Board of CSIRO and Centrelink and is now Chair of the National Centre for Vocational Education Research. Since leaving the Australian Public Service he has become a non-executive Director of AMP Ltd (a listed company), Corrs Chambers Westgarth (non-listed) and is the Chairperson of a small venture capital start-up, QuintessenceLabs. He is also actively involved in the non-profit sector and is Chair of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation and a Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence and the Sir John Monash Foundation.