Reinhard Stockmann is Senior Professor of Sociology and Founder and Director of the Center for Evaluation (CEval) at Saarland University, shareholder of the university spin-off CEval GmbH, Director of the English-language Master of Evaluation program, co-founder and (from 2002 to 2022 Managing) Editor of the Journal of Evaluation, founding member of the German Evaluation Society (DeGEval) and of the AK Entwicklungspolitik. From 2004 to 2021, he directed the first German-language master's program in evaluation, which he co-founded. He has published and edited about 300 articles and about 50 books some of which have been translated into 6 languages. He has conducted several hundred evaluations in numerous countries and for more than 40 years has been particularly concerned with theories and methods of evaluation as well as with the topics of development cooperation/policy, education, vocational training, the environment, and foreign cultural policy. Stockmann has lectured at the following foreign universities: King Mongkut's Institute of Technology, Bangkok (Thailand); Peking University (PR China); Higher School of Economics, Moscow (Russia); Universidad de Costa Rica, San José (Costa Rica); Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito (Ecuador); Tongji University, Shanghai (PR China); University of Bern (Switzerland).