Ian Hopwood is a British expert who trained in political science and development sociology and a former UNICEF representative in Senegal, from 2000 to 2008. He started his career in Cameroon in 1972 and managed evaluation at UNICEF in the 1990s. He is a lecturer at Science-Po Paris and the University Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD), where he gives lectures on the evaluation and rights of children. As Honorary President of the Senegalese Evaluation Association (SenEval), he chaired a scientific committee responsible for organizing, in December 2015, a National Symposium on Childhood in the context of the Emerging Senegal Plan (PSE), organized by the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Planning, with support from UNICEF.