Weronika Felcis

Weronika Felcis is vice-President and founding Member of the International Evaluation Academy. She served two terms as Secretary of the IOCE Executive Committee, she served on the Eval-Partners Executive Committee and is a past Board member of the European Evaluation Society. Weronika holds an MA in Sociology and is a graduate of Interdisciplinary Studies “Society Environment Technology” at the Jagiellonian University. She was an exchange student at Warwick University in Social Research in 2008/2009 and a scholarship recipient of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation in the Centre for Social Innovation and Research “Shipyard”. In 2014, she joined the Polish Evaluation Society of which she later became President. She was a Program Director of the first Polish Evaluation Congress which brought together evaluations from different sectors and fields. She is devoted to building networks and enabling the evaluation environment in Europe, especially in the CEE region. She coordinated the Network of Evaluation Societies in Europe (NESE) in 2016-2018. Realizing the pressures of living in the Anthropocene and 6th Mass extinction era, she introduces the theme of system thinking and regenerative living into her evaluation advocacy and lives in an intentional community based on permaculture principles she co-developed in Latvia.