Sulley Gariba was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Tuesday, June 10, “in recognition of longstanding work and academic scholarship in international development, civil society practices, government policy, and program development in Africa.”
Carleton alumnus Sulley Gariba is a policy, governance and evaluation specialist with over 30 years of experience in leadership and providing strategic advice to governments, as well as regional and international institutions. Since January 2013, he has been the senior policy advisor to the President of Ghana and also
the head of the Presidential Policy Delivery Unit.
As a leader in the international evaluation movement, he was the founding president of the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) from 2002 to 2005, and president of the African Evaluation Association from 2007 to 2009. He advised the secretariat managing the first-round evaluation of the Paris
Declaration between 2006 and 2008. He has served on several expert panels to assess the evaluation function in UNICEF, the UNDP, the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and, in April 2014, became a member of the Advisory Council on Citizen Engagement in Development, a panel constituted by the World Bank.
In recognition of his three decades of commitment to development in Ghana, Dr. Gariba was awarded the Millennium Excellence Award for Rural Development in 2005 by the Millennium Foundation and the Government of Ghana. He also served as a commissioner for 12 years on the National Planning Commission of Ghana.