Mgr. Daniel Svoboda

Daniel is President of the Czech Evaluation Society (https://czecheval.cz/). Until 2023, he was a Coordinator of IDEAS (https://ideasglobal.org/), and Coordinator of the International Evaluation Academy (https://ieac.global/). Since 2009, he has been working for the European Commission as external monitor for the environmental program LIFE. He is also a member of Reference Group on Evaluations of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs and mentor on evaluations at the Ministry of Health. Between 2007 and 2017 he coordinated the European Program for Development Evaluation Training (EPDET) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He is also a lecturer of project management and evaluations at the Czech University of Life Sciences – Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences.