Professor Howard White

Director Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis, Global Development Network, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Global Development Network, New Delhi, India

Howard White was the former CEO of The Campbell Collaboration, where he led innovations in governance, publishing, staffing, evidence synthesis products, and tools to support evidence use in decision-making. He was also the founding Executive Director of at the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), before which he led the impact evaluation program of the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group. His research areas include aid and development effectiveness, anti-poverty interventions, macroeconomic modelling and policy, evaluation and evidence synthesis methods, knowledge translation, evidence eco-systems, and mixed methods approaches in research and evaluation.

Howard has supported agencies in many countries in evaluations and the use of evidence. He has been given awards for services to evaluation by the governments of Benin and Uganda. He was Managing Editor of the Journal of Development Studies (2002–13) and founding Managing Editor of the Journal of Development Effectiveness.