Dr Squirrel Main is The Ian Potter Foundation's first Research and Evaluation Manager and she co-chairs the Philanthropic Evaluation and Data Analysis network.

Squirrel completed her Masters at Stanford University in Evaluation and Policy Analysis (with David Fetterman--hello David, welcome!). She finished her PhD under John Hattie and Mary Hill at the University of Auckland. Squirrel has worked as a Senior Research Officer at the Brotherhood of St Laurence leading quantitative longitudinal data collection and analysis. She has also been a research assistant to Maxine McKew at the University of Melbourne, a research fellow on the E4Kids Project, an Outward Bound Instructor and a primary school teacher.