Dr Jo Puri is the Head of GCF's Independent Evaluation Unit. She has more than 23 years of experience in evaluation research and in agriculture, environment, health and infrastructure related poverty alleviation policies. She is a well-recognised leader in using qualitative and quantitative methods in evaluation. Jo has published extensively on climate change policies and programs, and on sustainable development. She has been on several boards and has worked in several international organisations such as the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Bank and was previously a research scientist at Columbia University.