Pablo Rodriguez-Bilella is a consulting sociologist, with 15 years of progressively responsible positions in applied and academic social sciences: evaluation, planning, community participation, and programme management. Committed to practical approaches that emphasize sustainable development over charity, community participation over relief, and empowerment over dependency, yet realistic enough to understand the need for pragmatism.

Pablo has specialized in evaluation of rural development programmes in the context of quite significant transformations of the rural landscape. Experienced in bridging evaluation research and policy by interdisciplinary work, and interested in linking issues of relevance and applicability with high standards of evaluation quality. Skills include monitoring and evaluation, action research, public consultation, participatory rural appraisal, sample surveys, case studies, project design and review; and pilot project implementation.

His professional work experience includes consulting work for the World Bank, Argentine Government, and the LENTISCO Network (Latin America-European Network for Technology Innovation Studies and Co-Development, financed by the EU). In the past four years he has been lecturing Evaluation Research Methods and supervising undergraduate and graduate students in evaluation topics.

Education
2004. PhD Sociology, Sussex University (United Kingdom).
2000. MA Sociology and Social Policy, FLACSO-Argentina.
1992. Social Worker, Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Argentina.

Memberships
ReLAC – Latin American Evaluation Network. This is an umbrella organization that involves national evaluation networks in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its mission is to strengthen monitoring, evaluation and systematization culture and practice as social and political processes for improving policies, programmes and projects considering better transparency and population participation.

ReLAC – Argentina. Member of its promotion group and also moderator of the electronic discussion list of the ReLAC-Argentina, which is aimed at advancing evaluation knowledge and at sharing information and experience.

CONICET – Researcher at the National Council of Science and Technology Research. Argentina.

Universidad Nacional de San Juan (Argentina) Lecturer of Social Anthropology.