Claudia Maldonado

Claudia Maldonado (MPA from Princeton; PhD from University of Notre Dame) is a professor of Public Policy and Evaluation at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), and a former member of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) in Mexico. She specializes in evaluation and social policy and promotes critical engagement in methodological debates in the field. She was founding Director of the Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Latin America (CLEAR-LAC). She has trained public officials and evaluators in evaluation theory and impact evaluation in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Editor of several books and author of research articles on evaluation, performance-based management in Latin America, and the methodological landscape of the field. Claudia Maldonado has served high level advisory roles in evaluation at UNICEF, UNDP, GEI and regularly facilitates ECD initiatives like EXCEL, EVALAC and EVALUAM. She is ad honorem member of the National Academy of Evaluators in Mexico, and has taught intermediate and advanced topics in evaluation at the Universidad Complutense, El Colegio de México, National Evaluation Capacities, the Latin American Center for Administration for Development, ESAD in Columbia, Universidad de los Andes, ESAP-Brazil and many other international institutions.