Jiří Pištora is a senior Hydrogeologist and Water Resource Management Specialist with considerable managerial and team leader experience. His areas of expertize include hydrogeological research, urban and rural drinking water supply and sanitation, wastewater management, exploitation of groundwater sources and balance of groundwater resources, groundwater protection and remediation, pollution investigation and spreading of contamination in groundwater systems, as well as assessments of environmental impacts, environmental audit and natural resource management. Mr. Pistora has considerable experience with designing and implementing evaluations in the water and environmental sectors. He is also skilled in the assessment of absorption capacities and capacity building needs of public and private actors and has practical experience with participatory approaches, partnership strategies as well as with mainstreaming of environmental issues, gender aspects and poverty in project design and evaluation. His particular interests include sustainability of development interventions, cost and time efficiency and environmental impacts. Mr. Pištora has worked on assignments in different countries in Europe, Asia and Africa and is an external consultant/monitor for the Czech Development Agency. He has excellent communication and skills and is fluent in Czech, English and Russian.

Barbora Latečková is a Evaluation Research Specialist. She worked in the public sector at the Czech Development Agency for 8 years, where she managed bilateral Czech-Mongolian aid. She was seconded to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub), where she managed a Trust Fund for 4 years. After returning from Istanbul, she resumed her position in the Agency and worked as a B2B Program Manager (later supervisor) focused on private sector involvement. She has been primarily associated with 4G eval s.r.o. since 2018. Ms. Latečková is a PhD student in Social Geography (completion expected in 2027), familiar with both qualitative and quantitative data gathering methods, as well as with conducting semi-structured interviews and surveys. She has been a member of the Board of the Czech Evaluation Society since 2020. She is fluent in Czech, English and is able to communicate in German and Spanish.