Udenrigsudvalget 2015-16
URU Alm.del Bilag 98
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DAC PEER REVIEW OF DENMARK
THE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE: ENABLING EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT
Examining country: Belgium
Frank De Wispelaere,
Director-General, Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation
Following his promotion as Advisor General, Frank De Wispelaere was
appointed Director of the Thematic Direction in the Directorate General for
Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs on 11 June 2012.
Prior to this appointment, M. De Wispelaere was interim Director of the Civil
Society Direction (March - June 2012) and of the former Multilateral Direction
(1 September 2011- march 2012). He was Head of the EU Unit from October
2004.
He served as Principal Administrator at the General Secretariat of the Council of
Ministers of the European Union, where he was in charge of disarmament and
non-proliferation issues (1st February 1999- 31 January 2003). Between October
1988 and January 1999, he served as advisor in several Ministerial Cabinets,
were he dealt, inter alia, with Central Africa.
M. De Wispelaere holds a Master in Psychology from the University of Leuven.
Olivier Thery,
Head of Service Quality manangement and results, Federal Public
Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation
Olivier Thery is responsible for the Belgian policies on development results,
risk management, integrity and transparency. Previously he worked in the
Special Evaluation Office and the Internal Evaluation Unit of the DGD where he
managed evaluations of the performance of the Belgian implementation
agency, the Belgian development results policy and the micro projects
programme.
Examining country: France
Vincent Guitton,
France's delegate to the OECD Development Assistance
Committee
Holds a Master of Law from ENA and joined the ministry of Economics and
Finance in 1997.
1997-1999 : Desk officer for South Asia in the External Economic Relations
Directorate of the Ministry of Economics and Finance
1999-2002 : Economic Counselor to the French Representation to the UE in
Brussel
2002-2004 : Head of South Asia and ASEAN Countries Unit in the External
Economic Relations Directorate of the Ministry of Economics and Finance
2004-2006 : Head of Investment and Services Unit of the French Treasury
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2006-2010: Economic Counselor, Head of the Economic Mission to the French
Embassy in Vienna (Austria)
2010-2013 : Assistant General Secretary of the French Treasury
2013-2014 : Deputy Legal Director of the Ministry of Economics and Finance
(2013-2014)
Since 2015 : Minister Counsellor for Economic and Financial Affairs to the
Permanent Representation of France to the OECD, and Permanent Delegate to
DAC.
Olivier Brochenin,
Assistant Director, Development Policies Division, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
Olivier Brochenin has served at Assistant Director to the Development Policies
Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since September 2013. From 2011-13,
he held the second position at the Embassy of France to South Africa in Pretoria;
previously he exercised the functions of General Consul in New Orleans
(2007-11), Technical Counsellor for European Affairs in the the cabinet of the
Minister for Cooperation, Development and the French-speaking Countries
(2005-07), Sector Manager in the General Secretariat for European Affairs
(2002-05). He also worked in the Permanent Representation of France to the EU
in Brussels (1999-2002) and held a function in the French Embassy to Israël in
Tel-Aviv (1996-99).
Holding a law degree, Olivier Brochenin graduated from the Institut d'études
politiques de Paris.
OECD Secretariat
Karen Jorgensen,
Head of Review Evaluation and Engagement Division,
Development Co-operation Development, OECD BA in Political Science and
International Relations; Hamline University 1977, Masters of Arts/Ph.D.
qualified, Political Science; University of Minnesota, 1983.
Karen joined the OECD in 2006 as Head of Division, Peer Review and
Evaluation. Previously spent 15 years in UNDP as Assistant Director of the
Sustainable Energy and Environment Division (participating in the DAC working
party on environment and development) (1992-2000); Chief of the
Management and Investigation Section of the Office of Audit and Performance
Review (2000-03); in charge of the organisation’s multi-country office in
Samoa (2006); and as Senior Deputy Country Director in Afghanistan in charge
of UNDP's largest programme in the world (2003-05). Served from 1989-92 as
Special Assistant to the Executive Director of UNEP in Nairobi. Joined the
Norwegian Ministry of Environment in 1984; became a Chief of Section in the
Department of International Cooperation and Polar Affairs, serving for 18
months as Norwegian Chief Negotiator for the Global Convention on trans-
boundary movements of hazardous waste; represented Norway in the OECD
Environment Committee.
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Joëlline Bénéfice,
Policy analyst in the OECD’s Development Co-operation
Directorate.
Joëlline joined the Development Co-operation Directorate in 2013 as an
evaluation and results specialist, supporting members strengthening their
evaluation and results management systems. She contributed to the review of
DAC members practices in results measurement and management (2014) and
various evaluation synthesis on topics such as support to CSOs or job creation.
Prior to joining the OECD, Joëlline worked as an evaluation consultant (2007-
2012) for clients such as the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, France
and Luxembourg, the European Commission and the International
Organisation for Migration. She conducted key evaluations such as the Paris
Declaration Evaluation, the joint evaluation of the cooperation of the
European Commission, Belgium, Denmark, France and Luxembourg with Niger,
the evaluation of Finexpo, and the evaluation of the French budget support to
Burkina Faso. In 2012, she joined the evaluation unit of the French Ministry of
Foreign Affairs where she managed project and strategic evaluations and co-
authored a practical evaluation guide for project managers.
Kerri Elgar,
Policy analyst in the OECD’s Development Co-operation Directorate.
Kerri joined the peer review team in the Development Co-operation
Directorate in September 2015. Prior to this, Kerri worked on development,
investment and governance issues for AusAID, the Australian Department of
Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development. From 2011-14, she was an Australian delegate to the G20
Development Working Group, where she became a founding member of the
AgResults Steering Group, a private sector initiative to overcome market
failure in the world’s poorest countries. During this period, she also served as
AusAID’s advisor to Foreign Affairs Minister Keven Rudd (2011). In addition to
these roles, she has lectured on crisis and risk management for the
International Affairs Masters at Sciences Po, France (2008-2010) and was a
Visiting Fellow at the Development Policy Centre, Australia, specialising in
private sector and development (2012-13). Many years ago, she started her
career as a political journalist and has a PhD in cross-cultural communication
ethics from the University of Queensland.
Cyprien Fabre,
Policy analyst in the OECD’s Development Co-operation
Directorate.
Cyprien Fabre is an humanitarian expert. Following several emergency
deployments in conflict areas of the Balkans and Africa within French NGO’s, he
joined the EC-ECHO humanitarian department in 2003. After being posted in
Eastern DRC, Sudan, Lebanon as ECHO field expert, he was appointed head of
the EC-ECHO regional office for West Africa in 2006. He then specifically worked
on linking emergency response and development programing in the Sahel,
donor co-ordination and developed joint programing tools and exercises. He
worked with donors to integrate a resilience dimension into development
programing, in the field of food security, nutrition, cash transfer and social
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safety nets. He joined the OECD Development and Co-operation Directorate in
January 2016 as policy analyst on humanitarian issues and engagement with
fragile states. He is a graduate from the Law faculty of Aix-en-Provence within
the NOHA network on humanitarian and society reconstruction.
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