Vijayalakshmi Vadivelu

Vijayalakshmi Vadivelu is the Chief, Corporate and Thematic Evaluations at the Independent Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). She has over twenty-five years of experience in international development policy, evaluation, and applied research. She has managed, and lead evaluations of development and crisis-related programmes at the global and country levels. Prior to joining UNDP, she was a researcher working on governance issues and gender equality in development at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India. She was a Visiting Professor at the Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University. She holds a PhD in Sociology.