Dr Andi Fugard is a policy evaluator and Director at IFF Research, specialising in quantitative impact evaluation. With over 15 years’ experience, they have led evaluations commissioned by government departments and What Works Centres, spanning policy areas including crime and justice, mental health, and education. Previous roles include leading evaluation teams at Verian, the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), and Anna Freud, as well as holding academic posts in social research methods and statistics at University College London and Birkbeck. Trained in computer science at Queen’s University Belfast, Andi went on to complete an MSc in neuroinformatics and a PhD in cognitive science at the University of Edinburgh, where they explored relationships between neurodiversity and reasoning. Their postdoctoral research at the University of Salzburg applied probability logic to model how people reason under uncertainty. Andi serves on the UK Government Evaluation and Trial Advice Panel (ETAP) and is a trustee of the UK Evaluation Society (UKES).