Dr Fiona Cram

Keynote title: 'Evaluating My Relations'

Dr Fiona Cram is a Mäori (indigenous) woman from Aotearoa/ New Zealand. Her tribal affiliations are to Ngati Kahungunu on the east coast of Aotearoa. Fiona lectured in Social Psychology at the University of Auckland before moving to IRI (the International Research Institute of Mäori and Indigenous Education), at the University of Auckland, as the recipient of an Eru Pömare Mäori Health Research Fellowship from the Health Research Council of New Zealand. In 2003 Fiona established Katoa Ltd., with a primary focus on the facilitation of research and evaluation that is by Mäori, for Mäori. Fiona has authored reports, journal articles and book chapters in the areas of Mäori health, provision of Mäori services, research methodology and ethics, and male violence against women and children.

Professor Frans Leeuw

Keynote title: 'Adding value to evaluations: combining paradigms, browsing for evidence and using (behavioural) theories more effectively'

He is currently the Director of the Research, Statistics and Documentation Department (WODC), Ministry of Justice, Den Haag, the Netherlands. He is also a Professor of Law, Public Policy and Social Science Research, University of Maastrich and is with the Faculty of the World Bank IPDET program and an advisor to several public sector organizations in Europe. He has authored numerous articles, reports and books in the areas of program evaluation, theory-based evaluations, educational evaluations and performance monitoring. He was President of the European Evaluation Society (1999-2002) and has been President of the Dutch Evaluation Society since 2003.