Toulemonde, Jacques

(b. 1947, Roubaix, France). M.A. Economics, Paris-Sorbonne University, France; M.A. Management, Institut d'Economie Scientifique et de Gestion (IESEG), Lille, France.

Toulemonde is Scientific Director and cofounder of the Centre for European Evaluation Expertise (Eureval-C3E). He provides expertise and advice on evaluation to public organizations at the international, national, and regional levels in many countries. Besides being actively involved in building evaluation capacity in the European Union, he teaches evaluation in several French universities and is an invited speaker at international conferences. He is also a member of the International Evaluation Research Group. Previous professional experience includes being Senior Researcher in Policy and Program Evaluation and Professor of Public Economics at the National School of Public Engineering in Lyon, Officer-in-Charge of Urban Planning and Development for the French Ministry of Housing and Public Works, and Economist for the Algerian Ministry of Planning.

His primary contributions to the field of evaluation center around causality analysis, evaluation in partnership across levels of government, evaluation capacity building, and the quality and professionalism of evaluation. Besides setting up and developing the European Evaluation Society and the French Evaluation Society, [Page 422]he has trained hundreds of evaluation managers in the European institutions and in all European countries. He is Coeditor of Politics and Practices of Intergovernmental Evaluation (with O. Rieper) and author, editor, or coauthor of many journal articles, reports, and training seminars. He has contributed to several evaluation guidelines that have been widely disseminated in Europe, such as the MEANS Collection, a set of six handbooks issued in 1999 by the European Commission. He has also contributed to four books: Intergovernmental Evaluation, Building Effective Evaluation Capacity, the International Evaluation Atlas, and Assessing Evaluative Information.