Ian is President of the International Evaluation Academy, a M&E Specialist Advisor with the South African Presidency and an International Advisor on Evaluation/MEL and Evidence Systems. He was Deputy Director General in the South African Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation to 2018, where he established and ran the National Evaluation System and was a founder of the Twende Mbele African Government M&E Partnership. Since 2018 Ian has been researching, training and consulting internationally in evidence use, monitoring and evaluation systems, working particularly in Africa and Asia. The International Evaluation Academy focuses on the contribution evaluation can play in addressing the polycrisis, and Ian has been very closely involved in driving a 3 Horizons initiative to explore how the evaluation field can play this transformational role. In the South African Presidency Ian has developed the MEL system for the just energy transition. He has worked in 21 countries in Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia, with government, civil society and the private sector. He is associated with the universities of Cape Town and Witwatersrand, and an editor and author of the book Evidence Use in Policy and Practice: lessons from Africa.