Andres is a Senior Evaluator with more than 15 years of experience conducting field-based participatory research and evaluations. During his career, he has always used qualitative social research (such as ethnographies of development, ethno-evaluations,  impact and process evaluations) as the spearhead to identify key issues and provide evidence to shape strategic directions of future programs. He enjoys unfolding alternative research methods (such as forum theaters or discourse analysis), fostering participation among local actors to help to decolonize and localize Monitoring and Evaluation frameworks.

Andres’ research experience is coupled with extensive experience in NGOs´ program management in settings such as Guatemala, The Philippines, Iran, Malawi and Chile. He has worked for organizations such as Action Against Hunger, Save the Children and The Spanish Agency for International Development, amongst others.

Andres earned his PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from UNED (Spain). He was a visiting researcher at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies School Of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and at the Cultural Anthropology Department of London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), both part of the University of London. He was also an associated researcher at the Cultural Anthropology Department of the University of the Philippines and Xavier University (Mindanao). Andres’ work has been published in different books and international academic papers.