Javier Mignone is a professor in the College of Community and Global Health, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on program evaluation while leading the university's Program and Policy Evaluation Research Group. Javier is also a practitioner in the field, having collaborated with hundreds of non-profit organizations and community partners on their program evaluations over the past thirty years. He holds a PhD in Community Health Sciences.