laura.fantini76@gmail.com

She is an independent consultant in designing, managing, monitoring and evaluating international development projects and programmes in several countries of the Global South. She is currently working as M&E independent consultant for Sapienza University of Rome and for the National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research (INDIRE). Moreover, she works as knowledge management senior advisor for the global NGO PROCASUR. She is a trainer on project cycle management, monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management methodology and tools.

She holds a Ph.D. in Development Evaluation with a final discussion on positive thinking approaches.

Currently she is member of the Evaluation Advisory Committee at Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is co-chair of the thematic working group on Development Evaluation within the Italian Evaluation Association (AIV) and an active member of the Democratic Evaluation Laboratory (LVD). She served the European Evaluation Society (EES) as board member from 2018 to 2021.