Paul Booth Email & Phone Number

Weybridge, Gb

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Johannesburg

• Developed the 2018 Africa Scorecard on Domestic Financing for Health, signed by 55 AU Heads of State at the AU Summit in Nouakchott, Mauritania on 2 July 2018• Steered Scorecard through technical review process and 55 country consultations.

London, United Kingdom

http://www.cadenceinnova.com/• Business analyst on project transforming how government outcomes are delivered.• Cadence Innova lead on a diverse consulting team delivering a complex, high-profile digitisation solution for the Department for Education• Coordinated geographically-dispersed team delivering to tight deadlines using agile (Scrum & Kanban) project management methodologies• Used data analytics to visualise team performance, in support of product owner’s efforts to optimise contract performance and improve quality

London, United Kingdom

• Project managed complex reform programmes for several governments• Produced high quality technical analysis under intense time pressure• Managed and shepherded several large projects through complex negotiations: across multiple stakeholders, countries and languages• Developed a mechanism to guide national financing decisions. Navigated it through interest groups and country consultations until signed by 54 Heads of State• Developed and presented a health financing policy framework to Ministers of Finance and Health of 54 countries, convincing the African Union to adopt it• Conducted analysis of regional expansion for a business case used to raise venture capital funding for a Southern Africa start-upClients: World Bank, Global Fund, African Union, SADC, UNAIDS, WHO, Oxford Policy Management.

Singapore

Summer Research Fellow within the McKinsey Centre or Government hub in Singapore.• Briefed McKinsey’s Regional Managing Partner for serving on Singapore Deputy Prime Minister’s Council for Skills, Innovation and Productivity• Conducted rapid analysis for Partners on complex policy issues, delivering to tight timelines.

Oxford, England

Following 10 years working with and in governments globally I pursued a mid-career Masters in Public Policy at Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government.Key policy areas covered included: • Economic development, Health, Education, Energy, Trade and International Relations and Science policy for government. • Applied policy modules with global experts and world leading practitioners from Harvard Business School, McKinsey & Company, WPP Communications, the World Bank, FCO, DFID and the United Nations. • Applied module areas include strategic communications for politics and public policy, strategic negotiations (Harvard MBA course), Major Programme Management (with Professor Bent Flyvbjerg) and public budgeting and accounting.

Pretoria, South Africa

• Conducted policy analysis, advising Deputy President on cross-cutting policy issues• Persuasively communicated evidenced conclusions on technical matters to Deputy President and Minister of Health, through verbal and written briefings• Synthesised policy documents, drafted memoranda, Cabinet briefings and speeches for President, Deputy President and Ministers• Delivered presentations and attended high-level engagements with Ministers, Ambassadors and Heads of Agencies on behalf of the Office of the Deputy President.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

• Led and coordinated an ambiguous project, transforming it into a cross-border agreement negotiated between CEOs of Southern Africa’s 20 largest mining companies, union leaders and minsters of Mining, Labour and Health of 15 countries• Navigated sensitive stakeholder interests with persuasive diplomacy to get agreement signed by 15 Heads of State.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Navigated the organisation through a challenging period of regulatory uncertainty• Increased grant funding by 400% in 12 months, diversified funding base and doubled geographic presence.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

• Led the development of the first bilateral agreement between South Africa and the United States to govern the $580 million annual PEPFAR programme in South Africa• Coordinated across 11 government departments to agree a consolidated South Africa negotiating position on policy objectives and funding priorities.• Agreement signed in Washington by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and South African Minister of International Relations Maite Nkoana-Mashabane (Dec 2010).

Pretoria, South Africa

• Conceptualised and prepared the Cabinet briefing paper and strategic plan for the national HIV testing campaign which underpinned South Africa’s HIV turn-around o Campaign tested 18 million people in 18 months, enrolling an additional 2.5million patients onto ARV treatment• Project managed first 6 months of the campaign, ensuring smooth roll-out • Established a ‘war room’ to coordinate myriad stakeholders and rapid operational scale-up, and to draft policy, regulatory and legislative reforms• Strengthened existing, rebuilt damaged, and built new relationships with stakeholders across the health sector in support of reforms.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Provided research and analysis for the Executive Director in his capacity as Deputy Chairperson of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC)• Coordinated civil society response to the HIV epidemic.

Master Of Public Policy, Public Administration

Honours In Political Studies, Politics And Philosophy, First (1St)

Activities and Societies: Student Council representative (2nd & 3rd year)

Bachelor Of Arts, Politics, Philosophy & Sociology, 1St

Activities and Societies: Elected Member, Wits Student Representative Council 2006 Brightest Young Minds (BYM) • Selected from among.