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David M. Fetterman, Ph.D. (he/him/his)

President and Professor
Claremont Graduate University, United States

David Fetterman, PhD, president of Fetterman & Associates, has worked in over 18 countries, including townships in South Africa and Native American reservations, as well as in high-tech firms in Silicon Valley, including Google and Hewlett-Packard.

He has also facilitated a USAID-sponsored empowerment evaluation in India focusing on eliminating tuberculosis and provided empowerment evaluation consultation services to Feeding America.

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. Fetterman concurrently serves as a faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Adjunct Professor at Claremont Graduate University.

Previously, Dr. Fetterman was a professor and research director at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Principal Research Scientist at the American Institutes for Research, and a senior associate at RMC Research Corporation.

Fetterman is a past president of the American Evaluation Association and the American Anthropological Association’s Council on Anthropology and Education.

He is the recipient of the Paul Lazarsfeld Award for Outstanding Contributions to Evaluation Theory and the Myrdal Award for Cumulative Contributions to Evaluation Practice. Fetterman received the American Educational Research Association’s Research on Evaluation Distinguished Scholar Award and the Mensa Award for Research Excellence.

He is also the recipient of the American Anthropological Association’s President’s Prize and was recognized as the Top Anthropologist of the decade in 2020. Fetterman received the Global Impact and Lifetime Achievement Awards, highlighted on the Reuter’s Building and NASDAQ billboard in Times Square.

Fetterman is the founder of empowerment evaluation. His Ted Talk is titled Empowerment Evaluation: Searching for Self-determination. He has published 18 books, including Empowerment Evaluation and Social Justice: Confronting the Culture of Silence, Ethnography: Step by Step (4th edition), and Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self-assessment, Evaluation Capacity Building, and Accountability.

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