David M. Fetterman

David M. Fetterman, PhD, is president and CEO of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation consulting firm. He has worked in over 18 countries, including townships in South Africa and Native American reservations, as well as in high-tech firms, including Google and Hewlett-Packard. He is currently facilitating a USAID-sponsored empowerment evaluation in India focusing on eliminating tuberculosis. Fetterman has 25 years of experience at Stanford University, serving as a School of Education faculty member, School of Medicine director of evaluation, and senior member of Stanford administration. Concurrently he teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Claremont Graduate University. Fetterman is a past president of the American Evaluation Association. He received the Global Impact Award, highlighted on the NASDAQ billboard in Times Square. Fetterman is the founder of empowerment evaluation (a community self-assessment approach). He has published 18 books, including Empowerment Evaluation and Social Justice. His TED Talk is titled Empowerment Evaluation: Searching for Self-determination.