National Evaluation Capacity Development Specialist, Independent Evaluation Office
UNFPA
Asela Kalugampitiya is a Sri Lankan lawyer, holds Masters in Evaluation and a PhD in evaluation from Germany. He works for the UNFPA Independent Evaluation Office as National Evaluation Capacity Development Specialist. He is a visiting lecturer of the Master of Evaluation, University of Saarland, Germany and a visiting lecturer of the Post Graduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. He is the immediate past President of Asia Pacific Evaluation Association. Asela has been working in the Monitoring & Evaluation field over two decades including for the United Nations. His main expertise area is national evaluation capacity development.