Stewart Donaldson

Stewart I. Donaldson is a British-born American positive psychologist specializing in health, well-being, and evaluation science. He is a distinguished university professor at Claremont Graduate University and is the director of the Claremont Evaluation Center and The Evaluators' Institute. He also served as dean at Claremont for 16 years (2001-2017) and as president of the American Evaluation Association in 2015.

Career Donaldson is now a distinguished university professor in the Schools of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation and Community and Global Health at Claremont Graduate University, and he also serves as the executive director of the Claremont Evaluation Center and The Evaluators Institute. In 2015, he served as president of the American Evaluation Association.

Books Donaldson has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and chapters on the science and practice of positive psychology, well-being, positive organizational psychology, program design and evaluation, and has published or has forthcoming more than 20 scholarly books, including Stewart I. Donaldson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Jeanne Nakamura (2020). Positive Psychological Science: Improving Everyday Life, Well-Being, Work, Education, and Societies Across the Globe |

Personal life Donaldson is a naturalized US citizen who has lived in California.