Gavin Jones

Gavin Jones is a founding partner of Upper Quartile, a business that generates over 90% of its income from international work in conflict and fragile states with approximately 40% coming from working directly with private multi-nationals investing in fragile states.  

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Chris Boyd

Chris Boyd is a Partner in Upper Quartile and an experienced economic development practitioner with more 12 years’ experience in the public and private sectors. Chris specialises in appraising and evaluating economic development interventions: he has undertaken over 60 project and programme evaluations in his career to date
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Dr Ken MacTaggart

Dr Ken MacTaggart has more than 25 years experience in regional economic development, measurement and evaluation, fragile economies and private sector development work. He has worked as a public agency economist and strategy director in the UK, and as a private sector economist, evaluator, analyst and writer in the developing world.
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Dominic d'Angelo

Dominic d'Angelo has significant international experience as a ministerial-level adviser and programme manager, and in information and communications in fragile and conflict-affected states. Much of Dominic's experience has been gained with the Department for International Development (DFID), including positions in the UK, Iraq, India and Afghanistan.

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David Gass

David brings over 20 years experience at manager, director and chief executive level; managing and delivering a wide range of complex and challenging economic, business and international development programmes, particularly for the SME and trade development sectors, in Scotland and internationally.

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Andrew Thorburn

Andrew Thorburn is a vastly experienced export and investment promotion adviser who has nearly 35 years senior management experience both in the private sector (as an entrepreneur and senior manager) and public sector (notably as a strategic adviser to investment and export development agencies).
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Kathleen Latimer

Kathleen has eight years' experience in the field of economic and social development research and evaluation, working in academic institutions and private consultancy practice. Kathleen completed an MA (Hons) in Geography at the University of Glasgow before going on to achieve an MSc (with distinction) from Strathclyde Business School. She is experienced in designing and undertaking qualitative and quantitative evaluation methodologies.
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Graeme Brodie

Graeme joined Upper Quartile following four years' experience in private economic development consultancy. He has expertise in programme evaluation, monitoring and evaluation frameworks, and economic and labour market data analysis. Graeme has worked on a wide range of projects for both public and private sector clients
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Lorraine Hutchison

Lorraine joined Upper Quartile following twelve years’ working in an engineering, management and development consultancy.  She is a project manager and chartered civil engineer with experience in all aspects of infrastructure project and programme development from feasibility and assessment to design and construction.
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Lara Johnson

Lara Johnson is a project manager with background in business, communications, research and project management in the international development sector.  She has experience in designing development cooperation projects and drafting related documents...

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Abdul Naser Ikram

Abdul Naser Ikram has more than 10 year's experience in managing and executing research and development projects in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He has very good knowledge of developing monitoring and evaluation systems for short and long terms project in post conflict countries such as Afghanistan.
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Mike Mann

Mike Mann is a qualified accountant and MBA with more than 20 years of managing international economic development projects for the EU, DFID, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and GIZ. He has managed large inter-disciplinary teams in Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East, Central Asia and Caribbean...
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Phillip Choudhury

Phillip Choudhury is qualified governance expert and has worked in developing countries for more than 20 years including 15 with donor projects funded by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, DFID and USAID.   
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