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Lee has over 20 years’ experience in international development, corporate and private philanthropy, mostly in evaluation, consulting, strategy and communications. Lee began his career at The World Bank Group (Global Environment Facility) and then worked at the African Development Bank until 2011 in ‘traditional’ independent evaluation functions, before running his own consulting company until early 2014. From 2014 to 2019 he built and led the Impact and Communications, and Effective Philanthropy teams of C&A Foundation working with partners and the fashion retailer C&A. Since 2020, he has led the Laudes Foundation Effective Philanthropy team which provides measurement and evaluation for strategy adaptation, organisational strengthening and learning support and gender, equity and social inclusion advisory to build a strong and inclusive foundation practice for and with our partners. These are after all, are some of the key ingredients for effective philanthropy. Lee is also a board member of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, the leading advisor and think-tank to philanthropy in the North America and Europe. Lee holds a Masters and Ph.D. from Cambridge University.Specialties: Extensive experience in building measurement and evaluation capacity for use and utility; evaluating projects, programmes and strategy using real-time, developmental evaluation; organisational learning in philanthropy; and managing and building teams to lead and be happy and motivated.Country experience: Bhutan, Brazil (multiple), Burkina-Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon (2), Egypt (3), Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana (2), Guinea-Conakry, India (multiple), Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya (multiple), Madagascar, Malta, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria (2), Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania (2), Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tunisia (multiple), Uganda (multiple), Uzbekistan (2)

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