Mr. Arne Disch (M.A., PhD), managing partner of Scanteam, a Norwegian consulting milieu, is a development economist with over 40 years' experience. He taught economics for three years at the U of São Paulo before spending 13 years in Africa for UNDP, Norad and the World Bank. Since 1996 he has worked as a consultant, and in that capacity has carried out 80 reviews and evaluations for over 15 clients with field work in 45 countries, being team leader on most. This has included reviews of a number of multi-partner funds, including multi-country programs in fragile and conflict-affected situations. He has led evaluations for the World Bank, the EU, UN agencies and a range of bilateral donors, providing advice on policy and procedural matters, and has presented these to international meetings of broad-based governance bodies. His focus is increasingly on governance challenges, including public finance management and issues such as corruption and illicit financial flows, and how various forms of joint action can be mobilized to address such challenges.

Ms. Kirsten Sandberg Natvig (MSc), senior partner at Scanteam, is a business economist from Norway’s School of Economics with specialisation in development economics and organisational psychology, and also holds a degree in social anthropology. She has worked on development issues for over 20 years in nearly 30 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia, most of these fragile, corrupt, and conflict- and violence-affected states. Her main fields of expertise are organisational and institutional strengthening, hereunder anti-corruption and governance; gender mainstreaming, gender sensitivity and women empowerment; and conflict sensitivity, peace and reconciliation, and women, peace, and security issues. She has an extensive knowledge of evaluation methodologies and participatory methods, has carried out more than 20 evaluations and reviews, and is as a guest lecturer for Master’s students in Value-based leadership at VID Specialised University in Oslo.