Board of Directors

Sandiran (Sandi) Premakanthan is a Sri Lankan born Canadian Citizen. Sandi lives in Ottawa, Ontario Canada. He holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Ottawa with concentration in Finance, Accounting, Auditing and Evaluation. Sandi is an Accredited Productivity Professional /Industrial Engineer (Fellow Institute of Management Services, United Kingdom – FMS and an Associate, Institute of Industrial Engineering – AIIE, a Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Quality Management Systems (ISO 9000), American Society for Quality (ASQ), Lead Auditor, Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14000) and a Certified Provisional SPICE (Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination – ISO 15504) Assessor (CPSA).

Sandi has over 25 years of general management consulting, evaluation and auditing experience in the public and private sectors. During the past several years with the Public Service of Canada, Sandi successfully developed Performance Results Based Management Strategies and conducted evaluations. He is currently a Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor with the Office of Business Integration and Planning Directorate, Health Security Infrastructure Branch (HSIB), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Sandi has taught Production/Industrial Engineering, Evaluation, Auditing, and Management at the University, Community College and Professional Institutions for over 25 years. Over the past decade, he presented a number of papers, workshops and seminars on Managing for Performance Results and other related subjects at international conferences and events in North America, Australia, Asia, Africa and Europe.

He is the President and Principal Consultant, Symbiotic International Consulting Services (SICS), Ottawa, Ontario Canada. Sandi is a Certified Trainer and is engaged in providing Management Education and Training/Professional Development and Facilitated Learning events and Services.

Sandi is a Credentialed Evaluator (CE) and an active member of the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES). He has close links with several other evaluation societies, associations and networks worldwide. He is the Chair /President of the International Organization for Collaborative Outcome Management – IOCOM (www.iocomsa.org), a Canadian registered not-for-profit Corporation.

He has a PhD in HRD and a Certified Prince2 Practitioner. Currently he lives in Malaysia. He is working as the Chief Operating Officer with People Talent Tech (Sdn Bhd) in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. He is an experienced organization development (OD) and project management professional with a track record of designing and implementing OD/HRD programs and evaluating development programs in public (government), development (non-profit) and corporate
sectors. He has served as Country Representative of IOCOM for Pakistan and editor for IDD.


Key areas of expertise include: operations management, organizational diagnosis, designing and implementing OD interventions, designing of projects, developing project plans, conducting project investment analysis, designing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems, impact evaluation of projects, programs and policies, designing and facilitating leadership and management development programs.

Raymond Peterkin graduated with a B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa in 2003 summa cum laude with options in co-operative education and management and entrepreneurship. Raymond is now a member of NCCT where he finished his M.A.Sc in Electrical Engineering in 2006 conducting researching in reconfigurable computing (FPGAs) and MPLS to optimize how data is routed on the Internet and best effort networks. He is now a Ph.D student continuing research in embedded systems and higher layer networking protocols like the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

Raymond is a member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the IEEE Computer Society and the Golden Key Society.

S.T.Bagalkoti is currently Professor of Economics, and Director of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) at the Karnatak University Dharwad, India. He is currently on the Editorial Board of the Assam Economic Review. He has published widely and engaged in supervising Ph.D. scholars.

Dr. Siddappa Bagalkoti has been in post-graduate teaching since the last 31 years. He has been a researcher, research supervisor, trainer and consultant. He has organized and actively participated academic events and training programmes. His research interests are basically in rural, social and environmental issues. He is on editorial boards of journals and member of professional organizations, national as well as international. He has served as Coordinator of research programmes, Development Officer of the University and on assessment and evaluation teams. He has contributed to the University by drafting plans, funding proposals and presenting them before the agencies. He was involved in monitoring the plan implementation as well.

MBA, MSc, BSc (Hons), PGCE

Alan commenced his career as a Chemistry graduate in the bullion industry before moving on to manage at director level and eventually managing his own company after gaining his MBA.

He moved into Further, and then Higher, Education in the U.K., reaching the position of Principal Lecturer (Partnerships) at Buckinghamshire New University, where he gained a MSc in Technology Enhanced Learning.

During his time as Principal Lecturer he was responsible for ensuring partners, in the U.K and worldwide, delivered programmes with the quality expected in the U.K. He was an external examiner for five Universities in the UK and also acted as an external advisor for the University of Worcester for their partner in the U.K. and for Coventry University for their partner in Hong Kong.

His partnership activities involved interaction with academic institutions in Germany, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Macau as well as many institutions in the U.K.

In Sri Lanka he has worked with several institutions and his involvement is ongoing with some of them, which involves spending a considerable amount of time in Sri Lanka.

Since leaving Buckinghamshire New University he has been appointed Chief Academic Verifier for Edhat International (UK), Quality Assurance Officer for School of Business London and Quality Assurance Officer for Success Point College, Sharjah, Director of IDM Nations Campus, Sri Lanka, and Director IDM Nations Campus, India.

His EdHat International (UK) role has included quality visits to institutions in Swaziland and Sri Lanka.

He is currently Director at HAC Consulting Ltd which provides Higher Education services and services to the pharmaceutical industry.

BA MBA PhD candidate

born in Namibia and citizen of South Africa, he is

Director of the Centre for Social Impact (an auditing and training NPO)

Director of the Justice and Reconciliation Centre (a justice and training NPO)

Director of 4Sight Prediction Solutions (Pty) Ltd (a software development firm

Errol practises as an auditor, consultant and evaluator in the private and public sectors, auditing and training many of South Africa’s corporate foundations on CSI policy, organisational capacity, project design, and impact.

He was part of the fight against apartheid, developing policy for Government and a black apolitical party. As head of a social research department, he conducted a landmark survey at the height of war, taking risks with his life to enter battle zones and map community needs.

A solid academic, he has lectured (Economics, Micro and Macro Economics, International Trade Economics, Management, Marketing and Organisational Behaviour) and tutored (Managerial Finance, Business Conditions Analysis, Strategy etc) at 4 universities.

He has audited or trained tens of thousands of staff members on hundreds of projects, training World Bank funded Government projects for the last ten years in Africa, the Middle East and Asia on Results Based M&E.

He has been an international management consultant, participating in landmark projects throughout Africa and in mergers and acquisitions, IT and risk management, product development, business intelligence and corporate governance in South Africa’s world class banking sector.

Errol is busy with a Ph.D in law. His MBA electives were Entrepreneurship and Law. His thesis involved reforming tax law. He obtained legal credits at the Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand. His BA majors were Law, Politics and African Politics. His subsequent studies involve international law, entrepreneurship, economics, mediation and psychology. His scores are in the upper 90s.

Md. Abu Hanif currently lives in Afghanistan and he holds Bangladeshi citizenships by birth. Hanif obtained his Masters in Development Study degree from Southeast University, Dhaka majoring in poverty alleviation, development concepts and measurements of indicators, micro and macro economics, monitoring and evaluation in NGO affairs, project management and development, environmental development and gender and development. He has obtained diploma degree on ‘Basic Ecology on Integrated Rice and Fish Farming System’ from Sains University, Malaysia. He attended two weeks training on ‘Integrated Rice and Fish Farming system’ from Kantho University in Vietnam. Hanif has attended in series of training on ‘International Programme of Development Programme, Monitoring and Evaluation in development and peace building programme’ in Carleton University Ottawa Canada, University of Ulster of Northern Ireland, Pretoria in South Africa organized by IMA International and many more in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Egypt and Cambodia.

Hanif has over 18 years of research, monitoring and evaluation, and project management experience across a number of sectors including livelihoods, economic development, education, health, disaster risk reduction, environment, emergency, and local governance. Hanif has authored numerous research and evaluation reports, articles and workshops on topics such as assessing program impacts, results-based management, project baselines, projects feasibility studies and participatory monitoring and evaluation guideline. He has provided monitoring and evaluation and Humanitarian Accountability standard training to more than 400 national and international NGOs staff it Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

Abu Hanif is currently employed as the Programme Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor of Concern Worldwide, Afghanistan with more than 3,000 staff and Concern implementing Food Income Market Interaction, Health, Education, HIV and AIDS and Emergency Programme in Afghanistan with more 32 countries over the world. Hanif has also held the positions of Monitoring and Evaluation Expert with the Concern Worldwide, Bangladesh and more than six years with CARE Bangladesh. Hanif is a founder member of Community of Evaluation Expert forum of Southeast Asia, member of Asia Peacebuilding Forum, AMAN Bangladesh and networking member of IPDET, INCORE, IDEAS, Keystone, 3i, Afrea and European Evaluation Society as well as the accountability forum of National and International Organisation in Southeast Asia.

Dr Madri Jansen van Rensburg, a South African, has focussed her career on resilience of individuals (especially vulnerable groups such as children). Madri has conducted various research and evaluation studies in 19 different African countries. She is registered as a research psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. Madri holds two doctorates in Psychology and Consulting Psychology and two Masters’ degrees in Anatomy and Research Psychology. She worked and published extensively in health, social sciences, and industrial/organisational sectors.

She started her career as an academic at the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Johannesburg. Thereafter she worked in several NGOs including People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA); Project Support Group Southern Africa (PSG), LifeLine Southern Africa as research manager. Since 2007, she is working as an independent consultant in the development sector and founded Resilience Analysis Consulting.

Madri places a strong emphasis on practical and implementable research (especially enabling change and resilience on individual, group, organisational or community level) and considers herself a methodologist with an interest in designing participatory methods. She enjoys working in multi-cultural settings using mixed method approaches and is experienced in both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Her experience and background ensures that she has a unique ability to design studies that ensure that a sound theoretical basis and academic foundations are implemented in context relevant methods.

She is a member of various associations and committees including: Academic and Non-Fiction Authors Association of South Africa (ANFASA), Africa Gender and Development Evaluators Network (AGDEN- Chairperson 2015-18), Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA), EvalGender+ (Management Committee 2015-18), International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), International Organisation for Collaborative Outcome Management (IOCOM), South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA), Psychological Society of Southern Africa (PsySSA), Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology of South Africa (SIOPSA), and the University of Johannesburg, Faculty of Health Sciences Academic Ethics Committee (2005 to 2012) and Technikon Witwatersrand Ethics Committee (1997-2002).

Samuel Kouakou is a Credentialed Evaluator and international consultant.
He is the Vice-President of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) and President of the Ivorian Initiative for Evaluation (2IEval).

He has been the M&E Officer of the C2D JUSTICE Project and the former Deputy Director of Evaluation and Sustainability in the Directorate of Projects Evaluation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Côte d’Ivoire.

He has an extensive experience in national and international public and private evaluation and author of several papers on Monitoring and Evaluation. Mr Kouakou is member of several monitoring and evaluation networks (AfrEA, CES, WA, EES, IDEAS, IOCOM).

Mr. Kouakou holds a Diploma in International Environmental Law from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), a Master’s degree in Rural Engineering from the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2IE), and several post-graduate certificates in International Projects Management, Integrated Water Resources Management, Gender mainstreaming, Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation, and a E-Learning tutor certificate from the Association of Francophone Universities (AUF).

Mr Kouakou is IOCOM West Africa Regional Representative. He is an active member of EvalPartners as well as EvalYouth. He has been a Mentor for the EvalYouth Global Mentoring Program, for Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEEs).

Kunzang Lhamu is a Bhutanese citizen and lives in Thimphu Bhutan. Kunzang obtained her Master degree in public policy from the National University of Singapore.

Kunzang has recently been appointed as the Director of the National Commission for Women and Children (NCWC), Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB). Prior to this, she worked as the Chief of the Research and Evaluation Division (RED) of the Gross National Happiness Commission (GNHC), RGoB. She has spearheaded initiatives to institutionalize outcome management in Bhutan through development of the National Evaluation Policy and National Evaluation Protocol and Guidelines (currently in draft) and also is the Chair of the Evaluation Association of Bhutan, which is in the process of being registered as a Civil Society Organization.

John Njovu is a Zambian Independent Consultant specialized in business, economics, governance, monitoring and evaluation, social development and taxation. He offers consultancy services to private companies, NGOs, cooperating partners and governments. He has been an Independent Development Consultant for over 20 years. He is also an author and actor. He is the founder of JTN Arts that promotes Zambian arts, and the JTN Youth Empowerment Project that builds film production capacity in the youths of his community.

John is past Chairperson of the Zambia Evaluation Association (2006-9) and the Chairperson of the Government’s Governance Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (2011-12). He is a former Treasurer of the African Evaluation Association (2017-18) as well as an Honorary Member of the Zambia Monitoring and Evaluation Association. He has been a Country Representative for Zambia (2013 to date) and more recently the Southern African regional representative (Coordinator) of the International Organization for Collaborative Outcome Management (IOCOM). He is also a member of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) as well as a founding member (2017) of the network for Indigenous Evaluators (EvalIndigenous) of the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE). EvalIndigenous is an international sub-committee of the Global Evaluation Partners’ (EvalPartners’) Group.

Mr S Thavaraj S Subramaniam, a consultant, teaches part time in Labour Laws in the plantation sector, Company Law and Business Law in a private colleges and Health Promotion in the local universities.

He started his legal studies with the University of London and Wolverhampton in 1990. He obtained his LLB in 1996 and then did his Certificate in Legal Practice successfully in 1997. In 2009 he was called to the Malaysian Bar. Since then he has engaged himself in teaching Law and is also a member of the Prison Committee of the Legal Aid Centre of the Malaysian Bar. He has since July 2012 been practicing as an Advocate and Solicitor with the High Court of Malaya.

a former member of the Board of Directors of the Malaysian Health Promotion Board (2013 - 2017) Malaysia. Prior to that he was the Director of the Research and Development Division of the Board ( 2010-2012). From 1986 to 1994 Mr Thavaraj was withthe Health Education and Communication Centre, Ministry of Health (MOH), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where he was the program manager responsible for health programes. In 1994 he was transferred to the Public Health Institute (IKU) where he became the head of the Health Education Division and Coordinator and Trainer for the Post Graduate Program in Health Education/MHSc, UKM. From 2005 to 2008 he was appointed as the Director of the newly formed Institute for Behavioral Research.

Mr Thavaraj has jointly published several research papers on health behaviour under the Ministry of Health. He has coordinated several Post Graduate Courses in Health Education for Health Education Officers from theMOH, trained 75 health Education Officers. and has conducted 30 short courses for the MOHin Risk Communication, Patient Education, Communication, Speech Writing and other relevant areas in Health Education and Health Promotion. He has trained 532 staff from various categories in the above fields. His consultancies are mainly in Risk Communication/Communication, Health Education, Health Promotion, Occupational Safety and Health, Health and Labour Laws.

Mr Thavaraj received the award of excellence in the government service for the year 1996 , and for the year 2003. In 2002 he was awarded AMN from the King of Malaysia. Among his main achievements and contributions are the accreditation of the post graduate course in health education by the National University of Malaysia in 1996, pioneering the Healthy Lifestyle Campaign 1990-1994 and pioneering Risk Communication programs from 1998 to 2012.. Mr Thavaraj has been instrumental in the above the areas raising the benchmark to the international standards. His pioneering efforts in Risk Communication Training Module has been adopted by ASEAN for which he was offered several consultancies in training ASEAN health officials. He is well versed and skillful in the fields of Health Promotion, Risk Communication and the related subjects. During his last assignment with the Malaysian Health Promotion Board, he was responsible for research and development. He developed several training modules for NGOs