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Michael Q. Patton, Ph.D. (he/him/his)

Founder and Director
Utilization-Focused Blue Marble Evaluation, United States

Michael Quinn Patton, Ph.D., is founder and director of Utilization-Focused Evaluation and former President of the American Evaluation Association. He is the author of eight evaluation books including a 5th edition of Utilization-Focused Evaluation (2021) and a 4th ed of Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods (2015). He is also author of Creative Evaluation; Practical Evaluation; and Culture and Evaluation (1985). He has co-authored a book on the dynamics of social innovation with two Canadians drawing on complexity theory and systems thinking: Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed (Random House, 2006). That led to his book on Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use (Guilford Press, 2011). He also authored Essentials of Utilization-Focused Evaluation (2012). His latest books are Developmental Evaluation Exemplars: Principles in Practice (2016), Principles-Focused Evaluation (2018), Facilitating Evaluation (2018), and Blue Marble Evaluation: Global Systems Transformations (2021).

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