Keynote speakers

Each international conference has a similar format. On each of the three days of the conference two keynote speakers speak or a plenary meeting is held. There is also an address by the AES President.

 The 2010 international conference features speakers from New Zealand and overseas who bring a wealth of experience and different perspectives to their reflections on the current state and future of evaluation practice. Speakers for 2010 include:

• E Jane Davidson, formerly the Associate Director of the Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, Jane now heads an evaluation consulting firm in Auckland, New Zealand (read more).
   
• Roger Maaka, an academic who has studied and advised on indigenous issues internationally (read more).
   
• Donna Mertens is past president of the American Evaluation Association and editor of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research, as well as a professor at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC (read more).
   
• Thomas Schwandt is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a member of a standing committee of the National Research Council of the US National Academies of Sciences (read more).
   
• Elliot Stern is Professor of Evaluation Research at Lancaster University and the current editor of Evaluation: the international journal of theory, research and practice (read more).