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David Royle

David Royle
International teamleader

David Royle has particular expertise in textbook development. He has extensive experience of working with Ministries of Education and curriculum development bodies, writers and academics in translating syllabuses into practical teaching and learning materials. He has worked with schools and other institutions in Nepal, Africa, the Arab World, the Caribbean, the Far East, and the UK. He has worked as an inspector for the Department for Education and Employment's Office for Standards in Education in the UK and is an experienced school governor. He has had experience of assessing schools� performance and implementing national policies, including curriculum initiatives.
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Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond
International finance adviser

Tony Redmond is a UK Chartered Accountant based in the North West of England and specialising in public sector financial work, particularly in education. He has many years of experience in working outside the UK including assignments in Mozambique, Ethiopia and Tanzania in Africa, and Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and Malaysia in Asia. He is also a skilled and experienced trainer and HR practitioner and has undertaken many assignments in the UK and abroad in various aspects of organisational development.
In the SSEP project he is Finance Adviser and Deputy International Team Leader. He is therefore responsible for advising CSSVE on all aspects of financial management related to the project including accounting, budget planning and disbursement, withdrawal of loan funds and the annual audit of the project accounts. He also undertakes the various financial tasks generated by CEC's office including invoicing and salary payments. He has recently agreed to take on the remaining work of the international organisational development expert which will involve him in reviewing the management of CSSVE and its relationships with its regional agencies.
Rohan Lindsay

Rohan Lindsay
International procurement expert

With over twenty-nine years international experience in public sector procurement of goods, works and services for overseas governments, Rohan Lindsay has a comprehensive background working in and for developing countries. Rohan has spent many years posted abroad as a consultant, advisor or manager on behalf of donor aid organisations such as The World Bank, The Asian Development Bank, the EU-ACP, the EU-PHARE, Japanese Aid (JICA) and the UK's DFID (formerly the ODA).
Jackson Cresswell

Jackson Cresswell
International VET expert

Mr. Cresswell has twenty years of international experience in the field of vocational and technical training for capacity-building both as in-country project team leader (ten years), and, more recently, as a short-term training consultant (twelve years).
As a senior training consultant, Mr. Cresswell has designed and implemented effective vocational and technical training programs for secondary and post-secondary situations, as well as for: water and urban infrastructure projects; the private sector including SMEs (including apprenticeship); and for a wildlife project. He was the training expert within a project to commercialize a public training institute.
Mr. Cresswell has worked primarily as a consultant to the World Bank since 1993 (UPI 86447), and has also completed assignments for The British Council, Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), Queen�s University (Kingston, Ontario), the Government of Canada, CIDA, as well as a number of consulting firms, including Chemonics Inc. (Washington D.C.), Price Waterhouse, Cambridge Education Consultants, and Maastricht School of Management. His experience has been gained in Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Eastern Caribbean (14 countries), Namibia, Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria, The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, and Canada.
One of Mr. Cresswell�s technical skills training systems for the World Bank Water and Urban Infrastructure Group (Africa) was identified by The World Bank as a �Best Practice� during 1999, and featured in �Findings�, the World Bank Africa Division newsletter. It is presently part of the World Bank �Best Practices� web-site.
Bruce Mathews

Bruce Mathews
International Labour Economist

Bruce Mathews is a labour economist with more than 15 years international development experience in the education and training fields. His areas of expertise include project design and management, project evaluation, staff development and training, capacity building, manpower planning and strategic planning. He has served as project director on a major World Bank funded vocational training project in the Caribbean and team leader/ labour economist on ADB and UNDP funded education projects in South-East Asia and the Middle East. More recently he has focused on providing assistance to developing countries in the design and implementation of labour market information systems. In addition to working internationally, he also works as a management consultant to government and private sector clients in North America. Previously he was Director of Manpower Planning in the Government of Alberta, Canada.
Thomas Black

Thomas Black
International Teacher Development expert

Expert in Modular competence based approaches to curriculum development Trainer in quality assurance and assessment systems that underpin competence based vocational education and training Teacher trainer in student centred teaching methodologies Expert in training needs analysis of teaching staff in senior secondary/vocational education External quality verifier for Scottish Qualifications Authority External examiner in Economics
Twenty three years experience in vocational education and training including eight years experience in the development and management of distance education modular programmes. Formally a senior lecturer at Elmwood College with overall responsibility for commercial training activity within the college and internationally funded development projects.
Ten years working in secondary/vocational education projects in EU accession, Eastern Europe and central Asia countries.
Tim Hunt

Tim Hunt
International Textbook expert

Tim Hunt has spent the past ten years working on textbook development projects in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. He has helped Ministries of Education introduce new more open publishing mechanisms, and trained authors, publishers and evaluators in Kazakstan, Georgia and Azerbaijan. In 2000 he trained the publishers and editors planning to submit books for the Ministry of Public Education (ADB) Textbook Project here in Uzbekistan. Previously he was a textbook publisher and director of Longman, the large UK educational publishers, where he was a colleague of David Royle.
Tim Hunt

Janet Jenkins
International Distance Education Expert

Janet is a practitioner, manager, trainer and advisor in open and distance learning spans over 30 years.
After initial experience gained in the UK, work has taken me to more than 30 countries all over the world, including many developing countries, and involved strategic planning, project or institutional development, management and evaluation, course development and staff training. I have taught students of distance education from over 50 countries, some up to doctorate level, and written or edited numerous books, papers and manuals.
Clients since 1993 include UNESCO, OECD, the UK Department for International Development, the Commonwealth of Learning, the British Council, the Commission of the European Communities, BBC Worldwide, and Ministries of Education or major education and training institutions in a number of countries.