PRACTITIONER · ANALYST · MOUNTAINEER
Nineteen years in the field. A lifetime in the mountains.
World Bank Lead Specialist across Sub-Saharan Africa. Founder of H.E.L.P. with Sir Edmund Hillary as Patron. Trisul at 7,120m. Independent analyst at mdbreform.com.
THE FIELD ·
Nineteen years across Sub-Saharan Africa
Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Sierra Leone. Long-term postings. World Bank Lead Specialist in Financial Management and Governance.
THE MOUNTAINS ·
Trisul, 7,120m. Mont Blanc. Shivling.
From a borrowed ice axe in 1975 to the summit of Trisul in 1979. Mountaineering as a lifelong discipline, not a hobby.
H.E.L.P. ·
Founded with Sir Edmund Hillary as Patron
The Himalayan Environment & Leadership Programme. Rescue, safety, and environmental stewardship in high-altitude terrain.
INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS
mdbreform.com
Long-form practitioner analysis of multilateral development bank reform, public financial management, and governance. Drawn from nineteen years of field experience and primary source documents.
RECENT WRITING
ETHIOPIA PFM
A longitudinal analysis. 22% strict project success rate. Near-zero correlation between governance spending and PEFA improvement. Ethiopia as the outlier counter-model.
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
11,628 prior actions, 1,551 evaluated operations. The gap between legal compliance and functional institutional change.
IMF ANALYSIS
~45 AFR recipients. Six country case studies. A comparative red-flag matrix.