Janet Kerley

Janet Kerley is a master evaluator and a practiced trainer in evaluation and performance measurement. As a Technical Director and Senior Evaluator in the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Practice at Palladium, she provides technical leadership for evaluations in the ME unit, technical direction on design and field methods, and supervision on the evaluation reports. She was the Chief of Evaluation, Research and Measurement for the Peace Corps where she established an impact evaluation series of the work of Peace Corps Volunteers with their host country counterparts. Ms. Kerley was the Team Leader for Monitoring and Evaluation in the Office of the Director of Foreign Assistance, US Department of State, leading a 200-member inter-agency team to develop standard indicators for the 2007 Foreign Assistance Reform reporting tool. She worked at USAID in CDIE, in the Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination where she oversaw the Initiative to Revitalize Evaluation, under Director Natsios. She also served as the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in the Bureaus for Africa and Europe and Eurasia. Prior to joining USAID, Ms. Kerley was a Senior Researcher at Aguirre International. She has worked in 62 countries in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. She is fluent in Spanish and occasionally remembers her French. She is the Co-Chair of the SID Working Group on evaluation. Check out her recent interview with TechChanges on how technology has influenced evaluation.