Vera Hennefeld is head of the departments Education & Culture and Society & Social Affairs at CEval GmbH. Her main areas of expertise are project and program evaluation, the development and implementation of impact-oriented M&E systems, and she is active as a trainer and consultant on monitoring and evaluation. Furthermore, she is responsible for project acquisition in her work areas. Vera has published book and journal articles on theoretical, methodological and practical evaluation topics and is a founding member and long-time spokesperson of the DeGEval working group "Culture and Cultural Policy". She completed her master's degree in sociology with a focus on evaluation at Saarland University and received her doctorate in the field of environment.