Economist and public policy professional with seventeen years of experience in the design, management and evaluation of donor & philanthropic programmes, with a focus on those involving innovation, job creation and private sector development. My experience includes assignments covering all aspects of programme design and implementation: from initial gap analysis & investment strategy through to the detailed design & implementation of governance processes, grant management, and monitoring, evaluation & learning frameworks. I have also lead numerous independent evaluations of projects and programmes in the donor, philanthropic and public sectors.Specialties: - Design & management of donor & philanthropic programmes and institutions - Impact management: full cycle impact management, especially involving 'difficult to measure' aspects of impact such as systems change and indirect employment creation - Adaptive management and learning approaches, - Design of governance, decision making & reporting frameworks for grant-making organisations - Impact and process evaluations, particularly of market systems development programmes - Private sector development, particularly market systems approaches in the MSME and agricultural sectors