Chris Perry is a Principal Consultant and Generative AI Lead working within the Knowledge Hub at Itad. Chris has an academic background in machine learning, and before embarking on a career in international development worked as a consultant providing machine learning powered energy forecasting services to UK blue chip companies.
Chris has over 25 years’ experience leading and working in teams supporting the design, delivery and evaluation of international development interventions around the world. Since joining, Chris has established and led Itad’s Governance and Education Themes, before moving to a new role as Generative AI Lead within Itad’s cross-company Knowledge Hub.
He has first-class expertise in the design, planning and implementation of programme monitoring, evaluation and learning systems supporting adaptive or results-based management approaches. His high-level technical skills encompass programme learning and adaptation, performance management, policy and strategy development or adjustment, value for money assessment and financial planning.
Chris is an accomplished evaluator and quantitative specialist with particular expertise in mixed method theory-based evaluations, contribution analysis, outcome harvesting, utilisation focused evaluations and the use of generative AI for qualitative analysis.
