Dr. Jean King is a professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD) and director of the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI). She is currently on sabbatical and has recently given multiple keynote presentations and workshops on evaluation:

Hawaiʻi-Pacific Evaluation Association (H-PEA) annual conference held on September 4-5, 2014 in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Dr. King gave the keynote presentation on How to Make Evaluation More Useful and held a pre-conference workshop on interactive evaluation practice.

Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) conference held on September 8-9, 2014 in Darwin, Australia. Dr. King gave the keynote presentation on Engaging Communities to Build Evaluator Competence–and Change the World and held a pre-conference workshop on evaluator competencies.

Dr. King gave a consultation on the evaluation curriculum of the University of Melbourne, Melbourne.