Sonal Zaveri has over 30 years’ experience in strategic planning, program design, capacity building, mentoring, and evaluation. She has a Ph.D. in Social Work and was a Fleishman Fellow at Duke University, USA. She has worked in more than 25 countries in Asia, East and West Africa, Asia-Pacific, Central Asia, Middle East, and Eastern Europe at grassroots, sub-national, national, regional, and international levels bringing a broad contextual experience.

She holds regional and global leadership positions - founder and board member of Community of Evaluators South Asia; coordinator of GENSA, Gender, and Equity Network South Asia; co-chair EvalGender+, member of the EvalPartners Coordination Committee, board member of IEAc (International Evaluation Academy) and a core member of the S2SE – South to South Evaluation which addresses asymmetries in global evaluation.

Sonal’s interests relate to how rights, participation, transformation, and gender are addressed through collaborative, culturally responsive, and learning-oriented evaluation approaches, and methodologies.