NICOLETTA STAME, sociologist: MA at SUNY, Binghamton; Assistant Professor at Paris X, Messina, Bari; Professor at Sapienza University of Roma until 2010. Presently, she is Vice President of A Colorni-Hirschman International Institute. She is interested in democratic policies of development, particularly in the Mezzogiorno, also from the perspective of their evaluation that she approaches through a ""possibilist"" lens. She is past President of Associazione Italiana di Valutazione and of European Evaluation Society, and board member of Evaluation. Her published books in English are: From Studies to Streams (with R. Rist), The Evaluation Enterprise (with J.-E. Furubo), Ethics for Evaluation: beyond ""Doing no Harm"" to ""Tackling Bad and ""Doing Good"" (with R. van den Berg and P. Hawkins), Possibilism and Evaluation: Albert Hirschman and Judith Tendler.