New Director of the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD

IFAD IEO welcomes its new director, Mr Oscar A. Garcia, as of 1 October 2014. Prior to joining IOE, he served as Head of the advisory services at the United Nations Environment Programme, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics in Paris. In that role, he provided guidance to the Partnership for Action on Green Economy. Previously, he was senior evaluation advisor at the Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where he oversaw programmatic and thematic evaluations for Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean.