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DELEGATE PROFILESPROF. DOHA ABDEL HAMID - EgyptProf. Doha Abdelhamid is an economist and policy evaluation expert with 27 years of experience inacademia and consulting. She held positions as senior policy advisor to the former minister of finance,minister of planning and economic development, and finally in the Cabinet of ministers of Egypt. She haslectured in finance and policy evaluations at the American University in Cairo, Carleton University inCanada, Edinburgh Business School, the Arab Academy for Science and Technology, and the Cape BretonUniversity. Doha has served as an IDEAS Executive Board Member for two terms and represented the MENAregion in the Media Society for Consumer Protection and Development. She is co-founder of the MENARegional Network for Development Evaluation and co-founder of the Egyptian Development EvaluationSociety (EgyDeval). She is a Global Task Force Member in the Inwent-World Bank Institute for TrainingEffectiveness Metrics; and member of the regional knowledge management network of IDRC/MERO. Dohahas been recently appointed as the MENA Representative to the Board of Trustees of the InternationalOrganization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE), and also as an International Advisor to the AfricanEvaluation Association (AFREA)DR. ISAAC BEKALO - (Moderator) EthiopiaBorn in Ethiopia, Isaac has twenty-five years of practical experience in community and organizationaldevelopment, management and leadership. As President of IIRR, Isaac takes a lead role in strategyformulation, organizational diagnoses and restructuring, strategic management, business plan developmentand monitoring and evaluation.While pursuing his doctoral studies, Isaac worked as a part-time lecturer in the school of Public Health and asthe Coordinator of Graduate Research Programs in the Philippines and joined IIRR in September 1989 as theAfrica Regional Director. He was appointed its 6th President in January 2009 and built the Africa RegionalCentre and establishing a presence in four East African countries.Isaac has successfully co-created a participatory knowledge-management and documentation system knownas the Writeshop that used by numerous international organizations. He has facilitated and co-authoredseveral leading publications on the Writeshop process and has trained hundreds of senior and middle levelmangers and technical specialists in the same.PROF. BAGELE CHILISA - BotswanaDR. JOSIAH COBBAH - GhanaProf. Bagele Chilisa is a Professor at the University of Botswana where she teaches Research Methods andEvaluation. She has supervised more than 50 Masters and PhD dissertations and has served as externalexaminer for PHD thesis in the SADEC region. She is also author of a number of textbooks that are used bygraduate students internationally. Professor Chilisa has received numerous grants to carry out impactevaluation and intervention research on HIV/AIDS, gender, education, sexualityinteracting with scholars from Sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the world. Her evaluation research onpregnancy policy was the part of a larger project initiated by the Ministries of Education with studies inBotswana, Mozambique, Kenya and Nigeria. Other studies (including HIV/AIDS, gender school experiences,and life skills education) have been carried out with scholars from the United Kingdom, Ghana, Botswana,USA (Pennsylvania, Stanford and Harvard) and have involved studies in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi,Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.Dr. Josiah A. M. Cobbah is a Principal Lecturer in Governance, Leadership and Management and currentlyHead of Administration at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). With morethan 30 years' experience in education in both Ghana and the United States, Dr. Cobbah is an expert ingovernance, human rights, leadership, ethics and social responsibility and development management. He hasbeen a consultant for various national and international agencies. Dr. Cobbah is a lawyer and holds a PhD ingeography with a concentration in rural resources development and planning. He has published in a varietyof areas.African Thought Leaders Forum on Evaluation and Development, Bellagio, Nov 2012 52