Although our base is in the north of England, we draw on a core team of staff and close associates from around the world, each with different cultural backgrounds and distinctive areas of expertise.
Ricardo Alem
Ricardo is passionate about working in rural areas, where he feels he can make the greatest contribution by improving the living conditions of the local population.
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Ailsa Buckley
Ailsa’s been in the development game for over 30 years, getting her hands dirty as a private sector development specialist across East Africa. Whether she’s designing or managing, she’s got the skills to get inclusive business rolling.
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Rachel Burns
Pursuits of derring-do at Silverstone Rally School and parachuting with the RAF did not result in Rachel achieving her day dream of becoming a stunt woman.
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Laura Courbois
Laura is an eternal optimist about market systems, even when they’re a complete mess. With over a decade of experience, she’s built her career untangling agricultural value chains, fostering private sector engagement, and crafting strategies that actually work.
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Kate Fogelberg
While counting cockles on a beach in New Zealand, Kate realised that the hard sciences were better left to others, and turned her focus towards the social sciences.
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Jane Gisin
After years of working in and for the Swiss legal system and enjoying occasional extended snowboard and surfing trips, it was clear Jane was going to become neither a lawyer, nor a professional athlete.
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Rob Hitchins
Rob has been with the Springfield Centre since 1997. An economist by training, Rob worked for the accountancy and audit firm KPMG, before setting up his own tourism business in Indonesia.
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Angela McGhin
Having an affinity for spreadsheets, and a love of all things furry and four-legged, Angela has chosen to combine these two passions and joined Springfield with the aim of organising our group of unruly consultants, a task akin to herding cats.
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Susanne Reber
On countless mountain climbs and hundreds of thousands of trekking steps through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, the Andes, the Caucasus, the Atlas and the Alps, Sue has had plenty of time to think about the sense and nonsense of mountain tourism.
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Momina Saqib Zuberi
The thrill of chasing milk trucks and livestock farmers in rural Pakistan convinced Momina to trade her professorial pursuits for the rugged world of development.
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Andrew Seward
Despairing of the poor quality and quantity of beer on offer in Nigeria, Andrew decided to take matters into his own hands, co-founding West Africa’s first craft brewery.
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