Annabel Jackson, MBA, Annabel Jackson Associates
Annabel Jackson is an evaluator with twenty-one years experience, sixteen running her own management consultancy. She has carried out more than 200 projects for local and central governments, nonprofit organizations, foundations and private sector companies. This work includes defining performance, establishing performance measurement systems, auditing existing systems, training staff in performance measurement, carrying out evaluations, and evaluating evaluations produced by other organizations. In the last seven years, Ms. Jackson has specialized in the arts, especially in more complex performance measurement issues such as artistic quality and social and individual impact. She has produced an evaluation tool kit for community arts organizations and has written four diagnostic tools for National Arts Strategies. Her main research interest is on how human factors undermine the accuracy and validity of performance measures. Ms. Jackson has three degrees, the last an MBA from Imperial College London.
