Howard White is a Senior Research Associate at REC, and Professor of Evidence-Based Public Policy at the Centre for Evidence-Based Social Sciences, Lanzhou University. He was formerly the Director of Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis at the Global Development Network (2022-2024), based in New Delhi, the CEO of The Campbell Collaboration (2015-22), and the founding Executive Director of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) (2008-2015).
He established Campbell South Asia, now an Indian research organization with local leadership and staff, and was Research Director of the Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (2018-23). He has also led the impact evaluation program of the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (2002-2008).
Howard serves on expert advisory groups for the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and is on the Boards of the International Centre of Evaluation for Development (ICED, based in Kenya and Ghana) and of the Nigeria Research Information and Development Bureau (NRIDB. He has been given awards for services to evaluation by the governments of Benin and Uganda.  He was Managing Editor of the Journal of Development Studies (2002-2013), founding Managing Editor of the Journal of Development Effectiveness (2009-2015) and a temporary editor for Development in Practice (2004-05).  
His research areas include aid and development effectiveness, anti-poverty interventions, macroeconomic modelling and policy, evaluation and evidence synthesis methods,  and mixed methods approaches in research and evaluation.  He has worked in a wide range of sectors in countries across Africa and Asia.
Howard started his career as an academic researcher at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (1991-98), and the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK (1998-2002). He is a keen long-distance runner and walker, and is currently based in China, India and Germany.