Professor Murray Saunders is Director of CSET, (Centre for the Study of Education and Training, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University) and Chair of Evaluation in Education and Work.

Professor Saunders has acted as a consultant to, and undertaken a wide range of evaluation projects for, the British Council, DfES [Department for Education and Skills], DFID [Department for International Development], ESRC [The Education and Social Research Council], HEFCE [Higher Education Funding Council], the UN and a variety of regional agencies.

He has carried out evaluation and research projects in a wide range of cultural contexts, including in Asia: China, Japan, Singapore and India; in Africa: Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and Ethiopia; in Latin America: Mexico and Chile: In the Middle East: Jordan as well as other member states of the EU and Russia.

Murray enjoys promoting and developing evaluation practice as past president and Council member of the UK Evaluation Society, Board member and immediate past president of the European Evaluation Society, chair of the co-ordinating committee for the establishment of the IOCE [International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation] and currently a trustee on the IOCE Board. Murray is associate editor of the only international multidisciplinary academic journal in the field – Evaluation.