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Gavin Anderson is an Associate Director of the Springfield Centre. Throughout his 17-year 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 the Scottish Highlands and is supporting projects in Africa and Asia to make commercial media work more effectively for the poor.

Marshall Bear has worked in international development for 35 years as a manager, microenterprise specialist, trainer and author. He has researched various topics including how to build business service markets to improve SME performance within competitive markets. Currently an independent enterprise development consultant based in Albuquerque, New Mexico (U.S.), Marshall brings knowledge of market development programmes in Asia and Africa, practitioner skills in sub-sector analysis and in organisational strategic planning and considerable experience in curriculum design and training delivery. Marshall’s most recent publication (with Michael Field)Managing the process of change: Useful frameworks for implementers of making markets work for poor programmes (EDM, June 2008)focuses on the facilitation approach to project implementation.

David Elliott is a Director of the Springfield Centre.  He has extensive experience in private sector development gained in more than 20 countries working with a range of organisations including DFID, SDC, IRBD, IADB and the EU.  David was the lead manager of DFID’s Enterprise Development Innovation Fund, focusing on action research into effective approaches for private sector development and was on a DFID advisory panel reviewing their £17m Business Linkages Challenge Fund.  Since 2004, David has been retained as a lead technical adviser to the Employment & Income Division of SDC, and was recently retained as a lead technical adviser to AusAID Headquarters on rural enterprise development policy and strategy.  Prior to joining Springfield, David worked in a leading public economic regeneration agency in London; as resident adviser to the Northern Cape Department of Economic Affairs & Tourism in South Africa, and several years with a major UK international economics consultancy.
 
Michael Field is a Senior PSD Advisor with ACDI-VOCA and is currently the Chief of Party on a USAID-funded value chain competitiveness and education project in Liberia. He has over 18 years of experience specializing in providing technical leadership in designing, assessing, and implementing market-based PSD programmes. In Liberia, Mike designed and is now overseeing the implementation of an innovative use of market facilitation and systems thinking to foster performance improvements on the farm and in the school. Previous to his work in Liberia, Mike designed and managed the implementation of a large value chain competitiveness project in Zambia based on market facilitation. 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.
 
Julian Hamilton-Peach continues to be passionate about uprooting rural poverty - especially in Africa. His experience over 20 years on short and long-term consulting assignments has focused on financial services, markets, institutional analysis, and programme management. After 8 years' working with DFID, he now works as Programme Manager of PrOpCom (Promoting Pro-poor Opportunities Through Commodity and Service Markets) - an M4P programme in Nigeria which is financed by DFID. PrOpCom is working to improve the functioning of several markets (rice, fertiliser, agricultural equipment, financial services and enterprise training services), and influencing policy at the federal level. Julian has trained many UN development agency staff, consultants and government officials in the use of the sustainable livelihoods approach; and is a certified facilitator.
 
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.
 
Ka-Hay Law is the Director of Agriculture Value Chains for Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB). She is based in Zambia and manages EWB’s work in Zambia, Malawi and Ghana which focuses on increasing organizational capacity for market facilitation. Ka-Hay has worked on the PROFIT project in Zambia helping to develop the knowledge management system and in Ghana on small scale technology development. Prior to joining EWB in Zambia, she worked as a corporate social responsibility consultant for Canadian Business for Social Responsibility. She graduated from University of British Columbia with a degree in engineering.
 
Corin Mitchell is a senior member of the Business in Development practice at Genesis Analytics, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Within Genesis, Corin is the Africa Director of the Financial Education Fund (FEF) and the Southern Africa Manager of the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF). He has over 13 years working experience in development in ten sub-Saharan African counties in the promotion of growth and PSD; as well as projects in the UK, India and Bangladesh. Corin has been a thought leader, developer and implementer of the M4P paradigm across Africa; designing, testing and evaluating innovative approaches and instruments. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing funds and programmes; including the AECF, the Business Linkages Challenge Fund (BLCF), the FEF, and the Investment Climate Facility for Africa (ICF).