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Where do you live and work (City)?

Oxford - International

What are your top professional skills?

International Capacity Building
Procurement Practitioner
Public Procurement Specialist

What is your main interest in the AMED network?

education, inspiration, collaboration

Please share your favourite management development insight or quote.

'Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you hardly catch it going.' Tennessee Williams

What kind of person are you?

24-7

More about you (Short Bio or any other details you’d like people to know)

I am an International Capacity Builder, specialising in donor- funded public procurement reforms. I work with government officials and ministers, drawing up legal frameworks in an attempt to curb bribery and corruption in high places and to prevent the abuse international aid monies. I have lived and worked as Team Leader in Nigeria, Malaysia, Angola, Malawi, Bangladesh and Ghana, The Middle East, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Kosovo.

What I’d like from the AMED network is…

After a long working life mainly in the public sector, I would now like to share my experiences and work on developing my own capacity to nurture my more creative side.

What do you do for your own development?

Now that I am becoming freer with age, I have engaged with the Friends of Kellogg College to support and sustain the philosophy involved with Continuing Adullt Education. I have attended a number of short courses on Creative Writing, and hope to make a more in-depth study of the three main genres; prose, poetry and drama.