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What’s in a (performance) number? And how do we use it?
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Professor Oliver James

Professor of Political Science, University of Exeter

Oliver James BA (Oxon); MSc, PhD (LSE, London) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Exeter, UK, focusing on topics in public policy including: citizen-state interaction (especially public accountability to citizens, and public service users’ participation in delivering public services), evaluation of policy outcomes (particularly in local government environmental policy). Publications include: James, et al. (2020). Behavioral public performance: How people make sense of government metrics. Cambridge University Press, and James, O., Jilke, S. R., & Van Ryzin, G. G. (Eds.). (2017). Experiments in public management research: Challenges and contributions. Cambridge University Press. Current projects include: ‘Renewing biodiversity through a people in nature approach’ (NERC funded) and ‘Fiscal Citizenship’ (ESRC funded). He is a member of the ESRC Grant Assessment Panel and at Exeter, he is director of the MSc Public Policy and departmental Director of Global Engagement.

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Benoit Renard

CEO, Tiko

Benoit co-founded Tiko in 2014. He has a background in Marketing, having worked for non-profit and for-profit organisations in France and Africa. He manages and oversees operations, leading the development of all the Tiko ecosystem.

Juliana Outes Velarde

Juliana Outes Velarde

Senior Data Steward, Government Outcomes Lab, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Juliana works as a Data Steward the Government Outcomes Lab, where she supports the work of our International Network for Data on Impact and Governance Outcomes (INDIGO). She holds a degree in International Relations from the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) and a Master on Politics, Big Data and Quantitative Methods at the University of Warwick.

Prior to joining the Government Outcomes Lab in April 2020, Juliana worked for different public entities from her home country, such as the government of the province of Salta and the former National Ministry of Modernisation. She is interested in how the provision of good quality data can help us evaluate the impact of public policies and improve them. As for her academic experience, Juliana was a research fellow for the Interdisciplinary Programme on Human Development and Social Inclusion of UCA.