Faculty profiles
Training team Gavin Anderson is an Associate Director of the Springfield Centre. Throughout his career Gavin has been an important innovator in business services, having earlier played a key role in research on SMEs' use of services in Uganda and on 'hidden' services embedded within commercial relationships in Asia. A key focus for Gavin is developing media-based business services, especially radio programmes, as commercial services that can reach the smallest and most rural businesses and which can act as an effective advocate in the interests of the poor. Having managed a major project in Uganda for several years he is now based in Ullapool in the Scottish Highlands and is supporting projects in Africa and Asia to make commercial media work more effectively for the poor. Marshall Bear has been closely involved in the design of the training programme, and is an instructor for the core skills sessions. Marshall has worked in international development for 30 years as a manager, microenterprise specialist, trainer and researcher. He has researched various topics including how market development approaches create and sustain value for industry and pro-poor enterprise competitiveness. Currently an independent consultant based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Marshall brings knowledge of enterprise development programmes in Asia and Africa, practitioner skills in value chain analysis and in organisational strategic planning and considerable experience in curriculum design and training delivery. Gareth Davies is a Market Systems Advisor at Adam Smith International (ASI). Based in London, he provides technical support to ASI's global suite of M4P and private sector development (PSD) programmes, including projects in Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Prior to joining the London office, Gareth worked for two years on ENABLE - the first programme to apply M4P and systems thinking to Business Environment Reform (BER) - first as Impact Assessment Manager and then as Deputy Team Leader. At ENABLE Gareth designed and implemented an innovative impact assessment system. Building on this experience, Gareth is a member of the DCED working group for results measurement in BER. Gareth has also worked for the Federal Inland Revenue Service in Nigeria, the Economic Regulation Authority in Australia, and several private sector firms. He holds an MSc in Economics from UCL, and an MPhil in Development studies from Oxford University. Pauline Dixon is Research Director at the E.G. West Centre and Senior Lecturer in Development and Education at Newcastle University where she gained her PhD in 2003. For the last ten years Pauline's research has focused specifically on private and government schools that cater for low income families living in the slums of Asia and Africa. Her work is published widely in books and academic journals and is highlighted on the international stage, winning several prizes and awards. Pauline gives lectures and talks around the world including keynote addresses on Capitol Hill, Washington. Current research projects include work in Delhi to provide a framework and working model of a targeted voucher scheme allowing some of the poorest children in the city to access education. The model could allow governments and philanthropists to provide funds for the poorest to attend quality education. Pauline worked on two new projects in 2011: "Education for the poorest in conflict zones" and the "Identification and nurturing of gifted and talented children in slum areas". David Elliott is a Director of the Springfield Centre. He has extensive experience in PSD gained in over 30 countries working with a range of organisations including DFID, AusAID, SDC, Sida, IRBD, IFC, IADB and the EU. He is currently retained as an Expert Panellist by AusAID, advising on its rural economy and enterprise work, prior to which he spent four years as an adviser to SDC's E+I Division. As a consultant, David has considerable experience in design, evaluation and programme operations. He designed and is advising ENABLE, an innovative DFID-funded programme in Nigeria taking a market systems approach to BER, and he previously helped design the multi-donor funded Investment Climate Facility for Africa. In Barbados he led a team looking at the regulation and supervision of banks and non-bank financial institutions, and was part of a team investigating constraints to inward investment in the Middle East - North Africa. David has also been involved in privatisation work in Lithuania, Tanzania and Egypt. Prior to joining the Springfield Centre, David was a manager with a public economic regeneration agency in London; and was resident adviser to the Northern Cape Department of Economic Affairs & Tourism in South Africa. Michael Field is a Senior Market System Specialist with ASI and is currently the Head of Portfolio on a large DFID-funded M4P project in Kenya. He has 20 years of experience specialising in providing technical leadership in designing, assessing, and implementing market-based PSD programmes. In Kenya, Mike is advising project management and staff on how to take a systems-based facilitation approach to value chain development. Previous to his work in Kenya, he was the Chief of Party on a USAID-funded value chain competitiveness and education project in Liberia that worked on bridging the relief to development transition. He also designed and managed a large systems-based value chain project in Zambia - PROFIT. Before going to Zambia, he played a key role in setting learning and research agendas in the field of PSD through USAID’s Microenterprise Development Office where he served as Senior BDS Advisor. Mike’s private sector experience includes work in the financial services and mortgage industries. He holds an MBA degree. Alan Gibson is a Director of the Programme and a co-founder of the Springfield Centre. With a background in economic and business consultancy, he has played a leading role first in the development of market development approaches to business services and, more recently, in the emergence of 'making markets work for the poor' (M4P) as an overarching framework in development. From 1996, working with the Committee of Donor of Agencies for SME Development, he played a central role in driving forward the major re-assessment of donor agency interventions that underpinned interest in business services. In his research, training and consultancy work he has been an important influence on the emerging market development approach. In 2008 he was one of the key authors of a set of guides “making markets work for the poor” aimed at agencies and governments and is now an adviser to a number of agencies on how they can take the approach more effectively into their work. Alan has worked in more than 20 countries with a range of organisations including SDC, GTZ, DFID and the World Bank. Rob Hitchins is a Director of the Programme and the Springfield Centre. He has worked on market development in a range of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and has conducted research, training and written extensively on the subject. Recent work has included design, evaluation and support of major programmes in East Africa, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Indonesia, focusing on financial and business services, agricultural sectors and the media, and serving as a strategic and technical adviser to a European donor agency. In 2008 he was one of the key authors of a set of guides “making markets work for the poor” aimed at agencies and governments. An economist by training, Rob worked for the accountancy and audit firm KPMG, before setting up his own tourism business in Indonesia, and has experience in the development of tourism-related small enterprises, particularly in rural and conservation areas. Diane Johnson - as the Director of Economic and Market Development for Mercy Corps - leads a team of eight technical specialists focused on supporting income poverty reduction interventions and integrating a market development approach across sectors. Diane has been in this position for two years, after working for five years as a Regional Programme Director. She has worked internationally for over 16 years in senior management and technical positions predominantly in countries experiencing conflict or natural disaster. Diane has focused on recovery and development programming with a focus on rural development, job creation and access to financial services in countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. She has worked extensively with cash programming and contributed to the development of case studies on cash transfers in the post-Tsunami period and advanced cash training materials with the Cash Learning Partnership. Diane managed Mercy Corps' post-Katrina programme in New Orleans and previously worked for four years in the U.S. as the Director of a Community Economic Development non-profit in the Lower East Side of New York. She holds two Masters degrees. Alexandra Miehlbradt is an independent consultant with almost 20 years of experience in pro-poor enterprise and market development, particularly in Asia. Alexandra has provided technical assistance to a wide range of organisations in market research and programme design, market facilitation and results assessment. Currently, she is a member of AusAID's expert panel on rural development. Alexandra has also authored widely used publications in PSD, including seven editions of the annual Reader for the ILO's Private Sector Development Seminar. Over the last five years, Alexandra has been providing technical leadership in the on-going global effort to improve monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment in PSD programmes. She has helped a number of organisations develop new monitoring and impact assessment systems, is leading the impact assessment component of a global, Gates Foundation funded programme on urban value chain development, and is the lead technical consultant to the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development on elaborating a global standard for internal impact assessment systems in PSD projects. Alexandra also has extensive experience as a trainer and facilitator. Prashant Rana has worked in small enterprise development and private sector promotion for more than 20 years. Since 2007, he has been based in Jakarta, Indonesia where he is Swisscontact’s Deputy Regional Director for South East Asia. Prashant was formerly posted to Bangladesh where he headed the multi-donor funded Katalyst project on market development. He is currently a technical adviser to several large Swisscontact M4P projects including Katalyst and Making Markets Work for the Chars (M4C) in Bangladesh, and the Nepal Market Development Project. He has been a regular speaker at the Springfield Centre training courses and ILO workshops. His previous work included long-term assignments in Nepal and Bangladesh, and short-term assignments in Sri Lanka, Vietnam, the Philippines, and India. He has a Master’s Degree in public policy and public administration from the London School of Economics.
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