I have in-depth knowledge of international development cooperation and M&E experience of more than 25 years, including through field exposure in fragile, war-affected and transition countries. I have worked in 30 countries outside Europe, for and as part of UN coordination bodies and UN agencies (for some 7 years). As team leader or senior expert, I completed with success more than 20 evaluations and 2 meta evaluations. 19 EU-related M&E tasks, and a total of 101 publications / reports and 66 presentations and lectures, have resulted from UN, EU, bilateral and private sector contracts. My working languages are English, French and German. Demonstrated experience in the conceptualization and implementation of complex strategic and thematic evaluations relates; Focus : Democracy and Rule of Law; Education, learning and capacity-building; fundamental rights; human rights-based and gender-based approaches to programming; gender equality; employment and social protection; public administration reform; migration; crisis prevention, stabilization and post-conflict rehabilitation; civil society and local authorities. Interventions comprise projects, programmes, strategy and policy interventions on behalf of UN (FAO, UNDP, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNITAR, UNOCA, UNRWA, UNU-EHS and WHO) bilateral partners (German Federal Foreign Office/FFO, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs/FDFA) as well as capacity building for 17 national and civil society actors.