Leslie A. Fierro, PhD is an evaluation scholar and practitioner who focuses on helping organizations and broader systems strengthen their capacity to support the effective commissioning, planning, implementation, and use of evaluation.

 

Her aim through both research and practice is to advance the role evaluation, and other forms of evidence, can have in designing and strengthening policies, practices, and systems that aim to improve well-being and eliminate disparities. Prior to her time with McGill, she worked for the U.S. CDC, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Canada’s International Development Research Centre, and Claremont Graduate University. Some of her recent work includes facilitating and co-authoring the update of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) globally recognized Program Evaluation Framework, leading the first case competition in evaluation capacity building (the Max Bell School of Public Policy’s Evaluation Capacity Case Challenge), and co-authoring several articles examining and advancing the field of evaluation capacity building.

 

Dr. Fierro is the former Co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Evaluation Association’s (AEA) New Directions for Evaluation, the former Associate Editor of English language articles for the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, and is a current AEA Board Member-at-Large.