Jose Claudio Pires

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About Jose Claudio Pires

José Claudio Linhares Pires is an international consultant currently working at CLEAR LAC (Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Latin America and the Caribbean, LAC). He serves as the coordinator of the Network for Developing Evaluation Capacities (ReDeCA, in Spanish and Portuguese), which brings together 26 Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) units from agencies and development banks across the region, providing a platform to strengthen evaluation systems. Since 2004, he has served as a Lead Economist and later as an International Consultant in the Office of Evaluation and Oversight at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, D.C, where he worked on various thematic and impact evaluations of development projects implemented by the IDB throughout LAC. Prior to joining the IDB, he was a presidential advisor at the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) from 2001 to 2003, focusing primarily on issues related to the restructuring of Brazil’s electricity sector. He also worked as a researcher for the United Nations Development Programme in collaboration with the Economic Department at BNDES. From 1988 to 1996, he served as an economist at the Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socio-Economic Studies (DIEESE) in Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and specializes in topics related to productive development. He has published several papers on regulatory issues in infrastructure, small and medium-sized enterprises, and the development of industrial clusters.