Partner and co-founder of Euréval, Lyon

Competencies : Evaluation in partnership, evaluation techniques, evaluation capacity building, teaching evaluation

• Recent assignments
  
  • European Commission, DG EMPL, Study on return on European Social Fund investment in human capital (on-going)
  • European Commission, General Secretary, Evaluation of Decentralised Agencies, in cooperation with Ramboll Management and Matrix (2009)
  • European Commission, DG BUDGET Meta-study on lessons from existing evaluations as an input to the Review of EU spending (2007)
  • European Commission, DG ECFIN Evaluation of the Integrated Guidelines for Growth and Jobs (2007)
  • European Commission, DG AIDCO Design of a set of guidelines for evaluating European external assistance: country strategy evaluations, sector/theme evaluations, project evaluation. In co-operation with Particip and ADE, (2003-2006).
  • European Commission, DG AIDCO Evaluation of the EC Support to Tanzania, Rwanda and Jordan (2005-2007).

• Selection of papers
  • Toulemonde J., Mouterde, F. and Bernardini, J.M. (2007), ‘Calling citizens to deliberate on disputed policy issues: implications for evaluation’ in Breul, J. Boyle, R. and Dahler-Larsen, P. Open to the public: evaluation in the public arenas, (ed). New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
  • Toulemonde J., Summa-Pollitt H., Usher N. (2004) Triple Check for Top Quality or Triple Burden?: Assessing EU Evaluations in Schwartz R. and Mayne J. (ed) ‘Quality matters: seeking confidence in evaluation, auditing and performance reporting’, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers
  • Summa, H. and Toulemonde J. (2002) : Assessing EU Evaluations in Schwartz R. and Mayne J. (ed) ’Quality matters: seeking confidence in evaluation, auditing and performance reporting’, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers "
  • Evaluation in the European Union: addressing complexity and ambiguity in International Atlas of Evaluation, Furubo J.E, Rist R.C., Sandahl R. (ed), New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, p407-424.
  • Toulemonde J. (2000), Evaluation culture(s) in Europe: differences and convergence between national practices in Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 69 (3/2000). 350-357

• Selection of other activities
  
  • co-founder and managing director of the Master in Evaluation and Monitoring of Policies and Programmes (Lyon University, Institute of Political Studies).
  • member of the International Evaluation Research Group (INTEVAL)
  • co-founder of the collaboration of National Evaluation Societies of Europe.

• Education and training
  • Masters in economics Paris-Sorbonne University (France)
  • Degree in economics and management - Institut d’Economie Scientifique et de Gestion (Lille - France)