Isabelle Bourgeois, PhD, holds the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue Professorship on Public Policy and is full professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. Her ongoing research focuses on measuring and building organizational evaluation capacity (EC) in the public and community sectors. Her main contributions in this field include an organizational framework of evaluation capacity, an online organizational EC assessment instrument, and an integrative review of the literature on evaluation capacity spanning a period of 20 years. Professor Bourgeois was the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation from 2017 to 2022. In 2017, she received the Karl-Boudreault Award for Leadership in Evaluation from the National Capital Chapter of the Canadian Evaluation Society, and in 2021, she received the Parenteau award from Canadian Public Administration for best French-language article. She received the Contribution to Evaluation Award from the Canadian Evaluation Society in 2024, and the 2025 Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Excellence Award from the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation.
Learn more about her research and contributions to the field of program evaluation at LaboÉval.