With a career spanning over two decades, the expert has dedicated their professional life to evaluation and applied research in the health and international cooperation for development sectors. They possess a wealth of experience as a head of an evaluation division, evaluator manager, evaluator, and trainer. Their project experience ranges from local to international and multilateral initiatives, tackling various scales and approaches, from projects to national policies. The expert is noted for their specialized education and experience in health research methods and statistics, having served as a research director and team manager. They are also experienced research and statistics advisors. The expert has collaborated with significant international funding organizations, where they assumed key leadership roles. As an acting Head at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation's Division of Evaluation for Development Policies and Knowledge Management, they managed both technical and managerial responsibilities. They are responsible for evaluation planning, budgetary management, and leading strategic evaluations, in addition to representing Spain at international evaluation meetings and networks. Demonstrating notable achievements, the expert has drafted strategic documents, supported team supervision, and coordinated significant evaluation activities. They have also designed quality improvement tools for evaluations and taught evaluation and social research methodologies. As a director at Spain's National Agency of Evaluation of Public Policies, the expert directed the postgraduate Expert Course in Evaluation of Public Policies and coordinated the agency’s internal training program. Beyond their leadership roles, they have served as an adviser in numerous Latin American initiatives, contributed significantly to research projects as a principal investigator, and mentored many students at Master's and Ph.D. levels. Their professional activity extends to teaching and publishing, with numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, and evaluation reports under their name. They are known for their quantitative and qualitative data expertise, and proficiency in analysis programs like SPSS, Epidat, ATLAS-TI, and MAXQDA. Their technical skills are complemented by fluency in several languages, with proficiency in English and intermediate skills in French, among others. They possess a strategic focus in business advisory, trusted at the C-Suite/Board level, and have demonstrated the ability to influence a globally diverse stakeholder base to act on evaluation findings.