Alok Srivastava, is Convenor of Inter-Regional Initiative for Professionalization of Evaluation (IRIPE), a voluntary effort of more than 11 VOPEs representing 14 countries across six regions. He is also a co-founder of the Evaluation Community of India (ECOI). Alok is alumni of IPDET with around 27 years of experience as Development Evaluator and holds double Masters in - Gender & Development Studies and Rural Development & Management. Alok holds the position of Director, CMS Social at CMS, an independent research and evaluation think-tank and also in the board of CMS-Institutional Review Board (CMS-IRB) on Ethics. To his credit, he has authored many articles/papers on Evaluation, Ethical Standards, among other relevant issues of Development Evaluation in esteemed journals and publications.