Chelimsky, Eleanor

Chelimsky is an independent evaluation consultant. She has more than 30 years of experience conducting evaluations and consulting for national and international organizations on evaluation practice and policy. From 1966 to 1970, she was an economic analyst for the U.S. Mission to NATO, charged with statistical, demographic, and cost-benefit studies. From 1970 to 1980, she worked at MITRE Corporation, where she directed work in evaluation planning and policy analysis, criminal justice, and research management. Between 1980 and 1994, she was Assistant Comptroller General for Program Evaluation and directed the U.S. General Accounting Office's Program Evaluation and Methodology Division, whose mission was to serve the U.S. Congress through evaluations of government policies and programs and through the development and demonstration of methods for evaluating those policies ...