Robert Picciotto served as director-general of the Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank from 1992 to 2002. He is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique and of the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He has served on the United Kingdom Evaluation Society and the European Evaluation Society boards, the United Kingdom Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact, and the Advisory Council of Wilton Park.