
The company’s main asset is the experience of its ten professionals (the Principals). We have worked within governments, NGOs, multilateral and regional organisations and in the private sector as academics, managers, researchers and consultants.
| Andrew Barnett Director Energy policy and technology and innovation policy in the public, private and NGO sectors from the perspective of political economy and instutional analyses. Aid programme review and lesson learning. | Alex Duncan Director Public policy and institutional analyses; political economy of development, economic growth, governance, strengthening the private sector and markets, agriculture, rural development. | ||
| Deborah Bryceson Principal Political economy, rural transformation, urbanisation, livelihoods, occupational change, poverty, mobility, transport, migration, settlement, agricultural policy, value chains, famine, urban food supply, gender. | John Githongo Principal Africa-focussed anti-corruption and political economy analysis and advocacy. Good governance research and advisory services, leadership and strategic planning. | ||
| Pierre Landell-Mills Principal Governance, institutional development, public sector management and decentralisation in Africa and Asia; corruption and transparency; civil society and the political economy of development. | Roger Riddell Principal Aid evaluation, aid impact and aid reform. NGOs, civil society and development, industrialisation, regional integration and southern Africa | ||
| Naresh Saxena Principal Natural resource management, rural livelihoods, poverty alleviation, food security, community forestry, watershed and drinking water programmes, governance, decentralisation, and peoples’ participation. | Tim Sheehy Principal Democratisation and electoral systems; governance, with a focus on corporate governance and corruption; regional cooperation; civil society organisations. | ||
| Sue Unsworth Principal Political economy of development, good governance and institutional development, anti-corruption, taxation and governance. | Gareth Williams Principal Political economy analysis and good governance, agriculture and rural development, private sector development, growth and poverty reduction strategies. Web development and IT. | ||
| Adam Burke Associate Social development and conflict specialist | James Keeley Associate China specialist, policy processes, agriculture, environment and science and innovation | ||
| Susie Alegre Associate Human rights and the rule of law; legal frameworks for counter-terrorism; criminal justice capacity building and international cooperation; civil society; transposition of international legal frameworks. | Anna Khakee Associate Democratisation, democracy assistance and governance; EU governance policies; nexus between governance and security; human security. | ||
| David Wood Associate conflict and peace building, fragile states, political economy analysis, governance, institutional development, stategic planning | Angela Holton Administrator Experienced programme administrator working in university and consultancy environments. |