Barbara Befani
Research Director
Barbara Befani joined NatCen in June 2023 as a Research Director in its Centre for Evaluation. She brings 20 years’ experience to the role and will lead and advise on key NatCen evaluation projects and develop programmes of work to build our capacity in the qualitative impact evaluation space. An author of widely cited seminal publications on qualitative impact evaluation, Barbara is an editorial board member of the journal ‘Evaluation’ and was elected Board Member of the European Evaluation Society (EES), between 2012-2015, and was former EES Secretary General.