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Lead Evaluation Officer
Dr. Nanthikesan
Sri Lanka
English
s.nanthikesan@ifad.org
+39 06 5459 2243
PhD Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Masters in Public Administration Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA
Bachelor in Engineering Sri Lanka
Nanthikesan is Lead Evaluation Officer at the Independent Office of Evaluation at IFAD. He has over 25 years of professional experience in the development field, including more than 20 years of evaluation experience in the United Nations development system. As Head of the thematic evaluation group in IEO of UNDP, he conceptualized and conducted corporate and country level evaluations. As a Regional M&E Advisor in the Asia-Pacific as well as the Sub-Saharan Africa regions, he was responsible for planning, monitoring and evaluating country programmes and developing M&E capacities in 68 countries. Prior to joining the United Nations system, he was a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University.
Professional affiliations and distinctions Member, International Development Evaluation Association Member, Asia Pacific Evaluation Association Member, American Evaluation Association Member, Sri Lanka Evaluation Association Guest lecturer at Columbia University, SIPA Authored several evaluation-related peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and blog pieces. Convened sessions in a number of international evaluation events (American Evaluation Association, Asia Evaluation Week, Asia Pacific Evaluation Association, COP26, European Evaluation Society, and United Nations Evaluation Group).
25 years International Development experience, with focus on Asia and Sub Saharan Africa.
+20 years experience in the evaluation field
2019 Rome, Italy
2016 Bangkok, Thailand
2009 New York, USA
2002 New York, USA
Lead Evaluation Officer Independent Office of Evaluation IFAD
Regional M&E Advisor Asia Pacific Regional Office UNFPA
Regional M&E Advisor Regional Bureau for Africa UNDP
Evaluation Officer Independent Evaluation Office UNDP
 Publications
 Blogs
 Presentations
'Evaluating Transformational Adaptation in Smallholder Farming: Insights from an Evidence Review'. In Transformational Change for People and the Planet: Evaluating Environment and Development. Juha I Uitto, Geeta Batra (eds.) Springer Open: Cham, Switzerland. 2021
Laura Silici, Jerry Knox, Andy Rowe, and Suppiramaniam Nanthikesan   2021
"Rapid Evidence Assessment: Lessons from Climate Adaptation Responses of Smallholder Agriculture". Journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL),
Laura Silici, Jerry Knox, Andy Rowe, and Suppiramaniam Nanthikesan   2021
"Evaluationg Post-Conflict Assistance. In: David Jensen and Steve Lonergan, eds., Assessing Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. 2013 Earth Scan: London, pp. 389-408.
Nanthikesan   2013
"The Evolution of Inequality in Length-of-Life: France 1806 1987 February 2001, Vol. 11 No. 3, Working Paper, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, MA.
Nanthikesan   2001
Averting a ‘train wreck’ – Taking stock of environmental consequences of development interventions
Nanthikesan   2021
Measuring Capacities Thematic Evaluation of IFAD’s Support to Smallholder Farmers’ Climate Adaptation
S. Nanthikesan   2023
Lessons from a major Climate Adaptation Evaluation (IFAD) Considerations for assessing climate adaptation solutions in agricultural sector and their environmental sustainability
S. Nanthikesan   2023
Mainstreaming Environmental Sustainability in all IFAD Evaluations
S. Nanthikesan   2022
Thematic Evaluation of IFAD’s Support for Smallholder Farmers’ Adaptation to Climate Change
S. Nanthikesan   2022
Approaches and Methods to Climate Change and Environmental Evaluations | IsDB Group Evaluation Symposium
S. Nanthikesan   2022
3rd International Conference, Asia Pacific Evaluation Association
S. Nanthikesan   2022
Transformative Pathways to Food Security Building Resilience to Climate Change | Asian Evaluation Week 2021
S. Nanthikesan   2021

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