Evaluator perspective

Penny Hawkins is an evaluation specialist with extensive experience in international development evaluation and public policy across a wide range of sectors and organisations. Penny is the former Head of Evaluation, UK Department for International Development (DFID). Over the past two decades, she has held evaluation leadership and management roles in the government and philanthropic sectors, including at The Rockefeller Foundation and as Head of Evaluation for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (NZAID) and Social Development, New Zealand. Penny has also held international evaluation leadership roles, including as Chair of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development–Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) Network on Development Evaluation (2013–2016) and as a former President and current Fellow of the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES).