Luis David Grajeda
Guatemalan expert in planning, monitoring and evaluation of public policies and development programs and projects. Mr. Grajeda’s consultancies focus on the areas of education, communication, governance and local democratic development. He has worked for 20 years in Central and South America for a range of international cooperation agencies, including special missions and agencies of the United Nations, the European Union, the Pan-American Institute of Cooperation for Agriculture (IICA), the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Soros Foundation and European and local non-governmental organizations.
Mr. Grajeda is currently the Executive Director of Agenda 21, S.A., a Guatemalan development consulting firm, and an active member of the Just Governance Group. He has worked with the JGG on the evaluation of “Thirty Years of Scientific Research Cooperation in Nicaragua”, and also as monitor and evaluator for the projects "Promoting informal labour rights (PILAR)” in Guatemala and Nicaragua and “Verapaz Community Empowerment Program (VCEP)” in Guatemala.
In the last eight years, Mr. Grajeda's professional and academic interests have focused on the study of new forms of social organization that respond, on the one hand, to the conditions established by the information society and, on the other hand, to the challenges of the reform or construction of a multicultural and democratic state in developing countries. Mr. Grajeda has developed a theoretical model called "conversational networks" to advance these challenges.
