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Ross is Professor Emeritus in the Planning, Policy and Design Department in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine, USA. His work focuses on monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment of programs in a variety of areas and sectors, particularly ‘health cities and communities.’ Ross is the author/editor or co-author/editor of 9 books and numerous evaluation-related publications. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in social psychology and evaluation from Northwestern University and his B.A. in psychology from The Johns Hopkins University. He is the Past President of the American Evaluation Association and continues to work closely with the organization, most recently as co-program chair for the 2009 Annual Meeting. In 2006 and 2007, Dr. Conner was elected the President of the Board of Trustees of the International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE). He currently serves as a Senior Adviser to IOCE. Ross's most recent evaluation project was an impact assessment and strategic review of The California Endowment's CommunitiesFirst grant program, which supported over 1,000 communities of many types (urban-rural, large-small and all culturally and ethnically diverse) to self select and act on improvements in community health issues (broadly-defined, in the spirit of WHO’s Healthy Cities initiative). Ross is or has been a consultant or advisor to a variety of organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences, the Rockefeller Foundation, College Board, U.S. National Institutes of Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Peace Corps, National American Red Cross, Healthcare Forum, James Irvine Foundation, State of California Universitywide AIDS Research Program, and the California Agriculture Leadership Program. He is heavily involved in evaluation and impact assessment training. He has served on the faculty of the Evaluators' Institute (Washington, Chicago and San Francisco), the Claremont (CA, USA) Graduate University's Evaluation and Applied Research Methods summer institute, and the Healthforum Fellows Program (San Francisco/Chicago). In recent years, he led evaluation workshops in Russia, the UK, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, and for the South Caucasus countries of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Email
Mywish joined the Standing Panel for Impact Assessment (SPIA) of the Science Council in 2006. She is currently Associate Director of the Pulse CRSP and Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. Mywish's association with the CGIAR dates back to her years as a research assistant, a pre-doctoral fellow and later as Associate Scientist, with the Economics Program of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico. Mywish has B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics from the University of Mumbai and PhD in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing. She is the winner of 1994 Most Outstanding Dissertation Award, American Agricultural Economics Association, USA. Her research interests include: Impact assessment and evaluation of agricultural research and development interventions and the economics of agricultural science and technology. She has worked as a consultant with many international organizations including, the World Bank, FAO, UNDP, CGIAR, and WIPO, and published several papers on topics such as impact assessment, research spillovers, impacts of seed policy liberalization and harmonization, implications of intellectual property rights on public policy and agricultural research in developing countries. Email
Paul is a Dutch national and has been a member of the Monitoring and Evaluation theme of the Science council since 2006. He is the Director of the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources at the Centre of Development Research (ZEF), University Bonn, Germany. Prior to that Paul was Professor and Director, Institute of Agronomy in the Tropics, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany; Paul established the centre for fertilizer development to serve Sub-Saharan Africa with headquarters in Togo and served as director (1986-90); he was a Scientist (1976-83), and Director, Agro-Economic Division (1983-86) at the international Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC). He has developed and implemented integrated research programs on soil fertility, water availability and land degradation in relation to global environmental change, working closely with colleagues from the fields of economics and social sciences. He was a consultant to the World Bank in Rwanda, Madagascar and Burundi; he serves on the editorial board of a number of profession journals in soil science. He was a member of Board of Trustees of CIAT (1992-95). Paul has M.Sc. in Soil Chemistry and Tropical Soils from Agricultural University, Wageningen and a Ph.D. in Soil Chemistry and Plant Nutrition, from Colorado State University. Email
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