Zenda Ofir is a full-time South African evaluator and scientist. With a Ph.D. in (Ecological) Chemistry, she was a grants portfolio manager in a National Science Council and Director of Research at the University of Pretoria before turning to evaluation. Since 2000 she has worked across the world from local to global level, with a special focus on Africa and Asia.  

A former President of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA), she has been visiting professor at Hiroshima University, Honorary Professor at Stellenbosch University, and for several years presented the Aid Effectiveness module at the United Nations University in Tokyo. She is a Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, and interim Chair of the Council of the International Evaluation Academy (IEAc).

She has a special interest in the intersection of humanity and nature, the decolonization of development and of evaluation, and in how to accelerate progress towards urgently needed large-scale transformations.