An advisory board of sector and research professionals provide governance, oversight and strategic advice in terms of the ethical and sustainable development of the organisation. The advisory board ensure the company delivers on its commitments and works within CMPE’s vision mission and values.
The advisory panel of research, academic and practitioner experts provide practice advice to the board and collaborate on projects to ensure rigour and efficacy.
Catherine Scarth
Catherine Scarth’s career has focussed on the design and implementation of innovative social programs and enterprises in Australia and the United Kingdom. She has achieved this through the creation of partnerships with government, employers and the community sector to deliver programs designed to increase the economic and social participation for newly arrived migrants and refugees.Ms Scarth is the Chief Executive Officer of AMES Australia, an organisation providing a wide range of interconnected settlement, education, vocational training and employment services in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales and Tasmania.
Ms Scarth is a member of the Settlement Services Advisory Council (SSAC) and a Board member of the Migration Council of Australia.
Catherine Scarth
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Dr Irene Bouzo (PhD)
Dr Irene Bouzo (PhD) for The Centre for Multicultural Program EvaluationIrene has held leadership roles in multicultural policy, advocacy and language service provision with government and not for profit organisations in Victoria to improve the quality of life of people from culturally diverse backgrounds. She worked at Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria, the peak body for ethnic and multicultural organisations, for 10 years and was the Executive Officer for several years. She was also an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher and held senior management roles at AMES. She is an Elder and Board member in the Temple Society Australia. Her doctorate (2008) from the University of New England (NSW) was in the areas of migration settlement, community building and transnational living. She has worked in culturally diverse aged care and was on the Board of the German-speaking Tabulam and Templer Homes for the Aged (TTHA). With a passion for social justice, Irene continues to be actively involved in supporting new and emerging communities and mentoring leaders in the culturally diverse sector.
Dr Irene Bouzo (PhD)
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Professor Jennifer Greene
Jennifer C. Greene is a professor emerita of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her BA in psychology from Wellesley College (1971) and her PhD in educational psychology from Stanford University (1976). Prior to Illinois, Greene held faculty positions at the University of Rhode Island and Cornell University. Greene’s work focuses on the intersection of social science methodology and social policy and aspires to be both methodologically innovative and socially responsible. Greene’s methodological research has concentrated on advancing qualitative and mixed methods approaches to social inquiry. In the field of evaluation, she has contributed both theoretical and practical scholarship in democratic and values-engaged approaches to evaluation.Greene’s evaluation scholarship is well anchored in her evaluation practice. From her early work evaluating local educational programs born in the Great Society era to numerous evaluations of NSF educational programs designed to enable all children to learn about STEM, Greene’s evaluation scholarship has been importantly grounded in her evaluation practice.
Professor Jennifer Greene
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Eva Sarr
Eva Sarr is an indigenous Serer woman from Sene-Gambia, in West Africa. She is also a 6th generation Australian woman of indigenous Celtic–Scottish and Irish–descent. Her father was Muslim and her mother, Catholic. She was raised in Global South nations in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific by her mother, who worked as a Peace Corps Medical Officer. Eva is a mixed methods evaluator with 15 years of experience. She has worked internationally, with Indigenous Australians and with Australia’s State and Federal governments and the Not-for-Profit sector in Australia, as an external evaluator, senior internal evaluator and project manager across the health, education, employment, arts, and community development sectors.
Eva is the founding chair of the Australian Evaluation Society’s first Multicultural Special Interest Group and an affiliate of the Center for Culturally Responsive Assessment and Evaluation.She is also the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Multicultural Program Evaluation (CMPE).
Eva Sarr
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Frank Piccolo
Frank Piccolo’s accounting and tax career has spanned over 20 years. He began his career with the ATO in Advising and Investigations before moving to a chartered firm where he stayed for seven years. In 1995, Frank started his own business, Frank Piccolo & Co. In 2012, he purchased Steve Dossis and Associates which has now grown into a successful boutique firm; PKD Partners Pty Ltd. Frank’s expertise extends to business reorganisations, tax planning and family business. His greatest achievements have been providing young accountants with a platform to launch their own successful careers, developing long term relationships with his clients to help them reach their financial and business goals. Frank holds a Bachelor of Business in Accounting from RMIT and is CPA qualified.
Frank Piccolo
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David Roberts
David Roberts (MAsEval, BA.(Hons), QPR) is a self-employed consultant with over 35 years experience in evaluations. His evaluation experience encompasses a wide range of approaches and methods across diverse fields (e.g. health, education, counter-terrorism, project evaluations and organisational systems). In 2016, David was awarded the Ros Hurworth Prize for Best Conference Paper at the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) Conference in Perth, Australia.He is highly regarded in the evaluation profession and has held evaluation leadership positions in Australia and internationally. He is currently a Board member of the International Organization for Collaborative Outcome Management (IOCOM) and is on two AES committees.
From 2012 to 2014, David was President of the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES), a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE) and a member of the Management Group of EvalPartners, an international collaboration of United Nations agencies, governments and evaluation societies. Other positions include Chair of the AES Awards Committee, Chair of the ACT Health Advisory Committee and Steering Committee, Hospital in the Home Evaluation, Canberra Hospital (1997-98)
David has training in Anthropology, Evaluation and Community Development. He has a Masters of Assessment and Evaluation. His thesis examined how cognitive structures inform and drive participant responses to elicitation (or projective) techniques. David has conducted workshops for over 30 years in areas such as Community Engagement, Participatory Research, Evaluation Design, Elicitation Techniques, Qualitative Methods and Program TheoryMAsEval, BA.(Hons), QPR) .
David Roberts
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Dr Donnel Briley (PhD)
Donnel Briley’s PhD is from Stanford University, where he also received a B.S. in mechanical engineering. In addition, he completed an M.B.A. at University of California, Berkeley and a post-graduate program in political economics at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France. His research, which focuses primarily on the influence of culture and ethnicity on consumers’ judgments and decisions, has been published in top marketing and psychology journals, including Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology and Social Cognition. In 2001, he won the award for best dissertation-base article in the Journal of Consumer Research.Donnel lived in North America, France and Hong Kong before coming to Sydney. He was on the faculty of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.
Previously, Donnel was a management consultant at Price Waterhouse Coopers, San Francisco, where he specialized in international strategy issues.
Editorial Board: Journal of Consumer Research (2008-present), Asian Journal of Social Psychology (2008-present)
Dr Donnel Briley (PhD)
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Dr David Fetterman
David M. Fetterman, president and CEO of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation consulting firm. He has worked in over 16 countries, working in townships in South Africa and Native American reservations, as well as in high tech firms in Silicon Valley, including Google and Hewlett-Packard. He has 25 years of experience at Stanford University, serving as a School of Education faculty member, School of Medicine director of evaluation, and senior member of Stanford administration.Fetterman concurrently serves as a faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Previously, Dr. Fetterman was a professor and research director at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Principal Research Scientist at the American Institutes for Research, and a senior associate at RMC Research Corporation.
Fetterman is a past president of the American Anthropological Association’s Council on Anthropology and Education and a past president of the American Evaluation Association. He is the recipient of the American Anthropological Association’s President’s Prize for excellence and innovation in applying anthropological insights to the evaluation and improvement of education, social, and health services. Fetterman was also recognized as the Top Anthropologist of the Year for 2019 and of the decade in 2020. He is the recipient of the Paul Lazarsfeld Award for Outstanding Contributions to Evaluation Theory and the Myrdal Award for Cumulative Contributions to Evaluation Practice. Fetterman received the American Educational Research Association Research on Evaluation Distinguished Scholar Award and the Mensa Award for Research Excellence. Fetterman is the founder of empowerment evaluation (a community selfassessment approach). He has published 17 books, including Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation: Stakeholder Involvement Approaches and Empowerment Evaluation in the Digital Villages: Hewlett- Packard’s $15 Million Race Toward Social Justice (Stanford University Press).
Dr David Fetterman
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Dr. Katrina Bledsoe
Katrina is a trained evaluator, mixed methodologist, and social psychologist with almost 25 years of evaluation experience at the local, state, and federal government levels. Her areas of focus include community-based social service, health and education evaluation and programming, theory-driven, culturally responsive, and equity-focused evaluation approaches, mixed methodology and methods, applied social psychology, equity and cultural contexts, and organizational learning. Dr. Bledsoe has served as principal investigator, co-principal investigator, or project director, on a variety of projects, and has received grants and contracts for programs in mental and physical health, the arts, economic sustainability, education, and international development. She is a consultant to federal, state, and local government agenciesand to schools, universities, foundations, and community-based organizations. Dr. Bledsoe is a non-university affiliate researcher of the Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Bledsoe is the author of chapters, articles, and blogs focusing on evaluation practice, and mixed methodology and evaluation, as well as cultural responsiveness and equity in evaluation, social psychology, and other topics. Herwork has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Evaluation, and New Directions in Evaluation. She is currently a co-editor of the Information Age Publishing sponsored Evaluation and Society book series.
Dr. Katrina Bledsoe
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