Thirty years of experience in international affairs, having worked in the private sector (consultancy), public administration (European Union's Directorate General for International Partnerships - DG INTPA) and nonprofit sector (NGOs, Academia, Institute for European-Latin American Relations - IRELA).
Areas of expertise: 1. Intervention Cycle Management (ICM): design, implementation and management, monitoring and evaluation, and quality control of processes and outputs. 2. Training: ICM, Logical Framework Approach (LFA) and monitoring. 3. Communication and Visibility, Aid Effectiveness, Programming and Financing. 4. Analysis of international/EU politics.
Main sectors of expertise: Good Governance, Human Rights and Support to Civil Society (20 years of experience), Education and Culture (5 years of experience), Rural Development, Environment, Trade, Employment and Social Protection, Research and Innovation, and Basic Health and HIV-AIDS (4 years of experience).
Monitored and/or evaluated circa 250 EU co-funded projects in Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Involved in the Results Oriented Monitoring (ROM) System of the EU since its inception phase in 2000 both as part of the external ROM Team or within the EC (DG INTPA), having contributed to its testing, implementation, improvement and development (handbooks, indicators, database, linkage with other quality systems, methodologies, etc.). Expertise on statistics, performance management, results reporting, quality control (circa 1,500 reports quality controlled), gender mainstreaming and other crosscutting issues. Performed as team leader and mission leader on several occasions (e.g.: Team Leader of the Monitoring and Learning System for the EU Trust Fund on Migration for the North of Africa, and Team Leader of the ROM Asia Contract 2003–2005). Evaluator of project proposals in the framework of the EU Horizon Programme, and the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF).