Evaluation Officers

Mohamed H. Manaï  is the Manager of the Project and Program Evaluation Division (OPEV.1) of the Operations Evaluation Department.  Mohamed graduated from theInstitut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (IHEC) de Tunisie in 1976. Before coming to the Bank, he worked as a manager with Price Waterhouse in Kuwait, Tunisia, and Morocco. He joined the Bank in 1991 and in 1998 was made a chief evaluation officer responsible for conducting institutional evaluations, reviewing and updating evaluation policies and guidelines, and liaising with other development institutions, including the OECD-DAC Evaluation Netwok.

Since 1996, he has represented the Department in the Multilateral Development Banks’ Evaluation Cooperation Group (ECG), which works toward greater harmonization of evaluation activities. In 1999, he was active in the establishment of the African Evaluation Association. He is involved in capacity building and participates in a variety of seminars and workshops related to evaluation topics.

Odile Keller was appointed Manager, High Level Evaluations Division in the Operations Evaluation Department in 2010. She worked previously as Head of the Evaluation & Controlling Division in the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in Switzerland. She also worked as an Assistant to the Executive Director for Scandinavian countries, Switzerland and India in the African Development Bank; Program Officer in SECO for budget support operations in a range of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa; and as an Adviser for the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) Program in the World Bank.

Odile trained in political science and holds Masters degrees in European Studies and in International Relations from the University of Geneva and the London School of Economics, respectively.

Jessica Kitakule-Mukungu is a Lead Evaluation Officer in the Operations Evaluation Department. Jessica joined the Department in 2009, from the Evaluation Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi.  She previously worked with the Evaluation Section of the Commonwealth Secretariat in London; the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF); and the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development in Uganda.  She is currently leading an evaluation of the implementation of the Paris Declaration at the AfDB.

Jessica holds a Masters degree in Socio-Economics from the University of Manchester (UK).

Herimandimby Razafindramanana is a Principal Economist with the Operations Evaluation Department. Herimandimby joined OPEV in 2001, after ten years as Principal Country Economist in Bank Group Operations Departments. He worked previously for several years in Madagascar as Head of the Economics Department of the University of Antananarivo; Adviser to the Minister of Industry Energy and Mining; and Professor of Economics. He has recently completed several country assistance evaluations.

Herimandimby holds a “Doctorat d’Etat ès Sciences Economiques” from the University of Paris (France). Email

Girma Earo Kumbi is a Senior Research Assistant with the Operations Evaluation Department. Girma’s work experience includes two years as an Economic Analyst in the World Bank’s Ethiopia Country Office; and 6 years in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development at the regional level in Ethiopia. He also has experience in project monitoring and evaluation, fiscal decentralization, development strategy analysis, fiscal policy, donor coordination and public finance.

Girma holds an MSc in Economics and Policy from Wageningen University (The Netherlands); a Masters degree in International Development Economics from Namur University (Belgium); and a BSC in Agricultural Economics from Alemaya University (Ethiopia). Email