Richard Manning is currently the chair of the board of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, and a senior research fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. As chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee, he was closely involved in efforts leading to the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. In 2009, he authored a report on the Millennium Development Goals for DfID and the Danish Institute for International Studies.