Experts + Advisors
 

 

Legislative policy and drafting experts (Average 15 years’ experience in legislative policy development and drafting. Our experts have served as advisors for drafting projects in ~40 countries.)

Law drafting experts (Our experienced drafters have served as advisors, or drafters, for hundreds of laws, regulations and legislative amendments.)

Mediation and facilitation experts (Our experts have facilitated collaborative problem-solving processes locally, for the Government of Pakistan, and as international consultants for organizations such as the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Australian Agency for International Development, the United Nations and the United States Agency for International Development.)

Parliamentary specialists (Our experts have served in National and Provincial Assemblies and have conducted orientations for incoming Members of Parliament and have assisted Members in assessing bills, participating in committee meetings and writing reports.)

Ministry experts (Advisors include senior-level civil servants with vast experience in policy, planning and development and program management.)Academic advisors (Include faculty members at Boston University and the University of California.)

Instructional/learning design specialist (20 years’ experience developing courses for major universities and international organizations.)

Authors (Our experts have published books on many topics, including: Legislative Policy Development, Legislative Assessment and Civil Society Input Mechanisms.)

Political party experts (Our experts have decades of expertise in the development of political parties.)

Media specialists (Reporters, newspaper owners, columnists & documentary filmmakers serve as advisors.)

Information technology specialists (Advisors have worked for leading IT companies, served as advisors to e-governance initiatives and designed an international legislative assessment website.)

Trainers and consultants (Trainers and consultants have10+ years of experience in providing analysis, advice, and/or implementation assistance to deliberative bodies, 5+ years of experience in the specific program content and/or training on this content, as well as 15+ years of experience in international development, prior experience in leading programs at the senior/executive level, and thorough knowledge of the participatory problem-solving approach and the local context.)

President

  • 20 years’ professional management experience: start-up, established and transitional NGOs and corporations

  • Project development experience: in collaboration with in-country partners and multi-lateral donors

  • 12 years’ progressively responsible USAID and UN-funded experience providing technical advice and quality assurance for legislative needs assessment, impacts assessment, research and drafting teams

  • Co-authored or oversaw the development of 250 bills and accompanying reports and 5 books

  • 12 years’ experience supervising teams of policy analysts and legislative drafters

  • Oversaw a 1250% increase in corporate project size within 5 years

  • Adept at designing research protocols, utilizing a wide range of data sources and conducting community needs assessments. (Experience teaching socio-legal research methods to civil society advocates, civil servants and university students.)

  • Experience serving as an advisor to policy reform processes in 40 different countries, with a focus on South Asia and the Middle East

  • Substantial experience working with national counterparts and donors on project development and implementation

  • Experience participating in multi-partner joint planning coalitions and proposing strategies to harmonize interventions

  • Experience securing project support from multilateral and bilateral donors

  • Directed globally dispersed consultants, volunteers and staff

  • Designed and ran an intern program for undergraduate and graduate students

  • Ran a distance fellowship program for established development professionals

  • Forged research partnerships with international universities

  • Coordinated with implementing partners and clients over long distances

Vice President

  • Extensive experience teaching legislation development and institutional design internationally in university and professional development programs

  • Consults with officials, legislation drafters, and civil society representatives as they conduct policy development, legislation design, and institutional reform projects

  • Designed and developed curricula regarding participatory problem solving

  • Extensive experience working with donors and national partners to develop training programs responsive to local needs

  • Taught research methods in an in-residence professional development program serving mid- and senior-level drafters

  • Consulted with parliamentary staff, MP aides and ministry staff, and conducted additional field-level research, to co-author a series of books on client-country legislative drafting and analysis practices

  • Developed and conducted trainings-of-trainers to ensure the on-going, sustainable attainment of the program’s goals and objectives

  • Designed and taught courses covering the executive-legislative relationship, the development of executive political institutions, and common patterns of executive-legislative relations

  • Expert in research and survey design, implementation, coding and interpretation, with experience conducting research and leading research initiatives regarding policy proposals, draft legislation and drafting process reforms

  • Conducted extensive research concerning the relationship between local governments and-civil society