<strong>Evaluation expert with more than 20 years of experience in development evaluation, results based management, crisis prevention and recovery, governance and public sector management. Before joining FAO, he worked for UNDP, UNFPA and the World Bank Group. As an Evaluation Specialist at the United Nations Development Programme, supported formulation of the revised UNDP Evaluation Policy, design of the evaluation quality assurance system and implementation of corporate strategy for strengthening country-level evaluation capacities. Prior to this, he served as Coordinator of Monitoring and Evaluation, leading and managing thematic evaluations of UNDP’s crisis prevention and recovery interventions, and after-action reviews of emergency responses. He holds a Masters’ degree in international economics from the Ukrainian Institute of International Relations and International Law, and speaks fluent English and Russian.</strong>