Howard White was the Chief Executive Officer of the Campbell Collaboration from 2015-22, and the founding Executive Director of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) from 2008-15. Previously he led the impact evaluation program of the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group and worked as an academic researcher at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, and the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.  He was founding Managing Editor of the Journal of Development Effectiveness and Managing Editor of the Journal of Development Studies, and is on the editorial board of several journals.

Howard has advised government agencies in many countries across the world. He has received awards from the governments of Benin and Uganda for services to evaluation.