David M. Fetterman

David M. Fetterman, PhD, is President & CEO of Fetterman and Associates, an international evaluation consultation firm, and founder of empowerment evaluation. He is also Professor in the School of Business and Leadership at the University of Charleston and Visiting Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at San Jose State University. Dr. Fetterman was a faculty member and administrator at Stanford University for 25 years. Past president of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), he is co-chair of AEA's Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation Topical Interest Group. He is a recipient of the Myrdal Evaluation Award for contributions to evaluation practice and the Lazarsfeld Evaluation Award for contributions to evaluation theory from the AEA and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Research on Evaluation Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association, among other honors. He is the author of 16 books and over 100 chapters, articles, and reports.