Bonnet, Deborah G.

(b. 1951, Billings, Montana). M.B.A. Indiana University; M.S. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, B.S. Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic and State University.

Bonnet is Vice President for Evaluation at the Lumina Foundation for Education, where she designs and manages the evaluations of the foundation's grants and research work. Before joining Lumina Foundation, she headed the Indianapolis-based virtual firm DBonnet Associates, where she specialized in evaluation services for private foundations and nonprofit organizations. Over the course of 27 years of evaluation consulting, she has conducted more than 100 evaluation studies in a variety of fields, including education, health, human services, community development, leadership, and the arts. She is a pioneer in independent evaluation consulting. Her work has been influenced by Don Campbell, from whom she gained the vision of ...