Dr. Jane Davidson is best known for pioneering the increasingly popular Evaluation Rubrics Methodology, along with her various other refreshingly practical evaluation frameworks and approaches.

Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, Jane is former Associate Director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, where she launched and directed the world's first fully interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation. She was 2005 recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s Marcia Guttentag Award, and serves as Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Jane is currently based in Seattle, and is sought after internationally as a speaker, author, evaluation coach, workshop and webinar presenter, and creator of awesome evaluation frameworks and tools.