Isabelle Bourgeois, Ph.D., holds the positions of Full Professor at the Faculty of Education and is the inaugural holder of the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue Professorship in Public Policy, University of Ottawa.

 

Her ongoing research work focuses on measuring and building organizational evaluation capacity (EC) in the public and community sectors. Her main contributions in this field include an organizational framework of evaluation capacity, an online organizational EC assessment instrument, and an integrative review of the literature on evaluation capacity spanning a period of 20 years. Dr. Bourgeois was the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation from 2017 to 2022. She has received multiple awards for her work, including the Karl-Boudreault Award for Leadership in Evaluation from the National Capital Chapter of the Canadian Evaluation Society (2017), the Parenteau award from Canadian Public Administration for best French-language article (2021), the Contribution to Evaluation Award from the Canadian Evaluation Society (2025), and the University of Ottawa’s Excellence in Knowledge Mobilization Award (2025).