Dr Clive Kinder is Chairman of the International Centre for Organisational Management (ICOM). He began his career as one of the original VSO volunteers teaching in Nigeria when he was 17 years old. He studied social anthropology at Oxford, where he played soccer and tennis for the University. After Oxford, Clive taught at Manchester University, where he worked as an urban anthropologist in the multi-racial district of Moss Side. He then went into industry with Philips and Tarmac as an Industrial Relations Manager. During this time he was the Research Secretary of the Labour Finance and Industry Group. He then became a Personnel Director with Delta Metal and Allied Domecq before being appointed Director of Personnel of the Greater London Council.

Clive then became a Visiting Professor at the International Management Centre from Buckingham and later at Durham and Bradford Business Schools. During this period he created the International Centre for Organisational Management (ICOM), a niche business school specialising in action learning, in-company, organisational development programmes. Over the next 20 years he conducted 65 customised Action Learning based senior management development programmes all over the world in major multi-nationals such as Shell and Singapore Telecoms, in large public sector bodies such as the UK Civil Service and National Health Service and many small organisations in the developing world. Many of these led to Diplomas, MBAs and Doctorates accredited by the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Bradford. In 2006 he was appointed to lead the Commonwealth Business Council’s Academy, which in 2008 became the International Centre for Organisational Management. ICOM conducts its action learning programmes within the UK while ICOM conducts its programmes outside the UK, which it does in collaboration with the Universities of Cambridge, London, Anglia Ruskin and Kingston.

Clive is also Chairman of the Commonwealth and Asean Stratospheric Space Agency, which is involved in providing telecommunication and surveillance services from airships aimed at reducing the cost of connectivity for the developing world.

Dr Geoffrey Clements

Dr Geoffrey Clements is the Managing Director of the International Centre for Organisational Management, with special responsibility for India. Geoffrey obtained his BSc and DPhil in Applied Physics from the University of Sussex. In 1974 he joined the International Faculty of Maharishi International University in Switzerland. In 1982, he was appointed Chairman of the Trustees of Maharishi Foundation in Great Britain, a post he held for 25 years.

Since 1974, he has travelled widely, visiting over 70 countries. He has conducted lecture tours, academic exchange programmes, higher education and corporate training programmes, programmes in natural health care (Maharishi Ayurveda) and given presentations to universities, heads of government, government departments and international organisations, including addressing plenary sessions of United Nations conferences.

Geoffrey has been travelling to India since 1977. He has an outsourcing company in Chandigarh, and is involved in projects to bring inward investment from the UK to India, particularly in the property sector.

Martin Kalungu-Banda

Martin Kalungu-Banda is Global Leadership Adviser for Oxfam GB’s Global Centre of Learning on HIV and AIDS.  He is also core faculty member of the University of Cambridge’s Programme for Industry as well as the Presencing Institute in the United States.  Between April 2005 and May 2006, he was Special Consultant to the President of the Republic of Zambia.  Martin has served in various capacities for a number of organisations; lecturer and initiator of business ethics at the University of Zambia; corporate affairs manager for BP Zambia; regional social performance manager for BP Africa, Cape Town; and senior policy adviser and head of the private sector policy team for Oxfam GB, Oxford.  

Martin has conducted leadership-training programmes for the Zambian Cabinet and Permanent Secretaries; the Zambia Episcopal Conference; business and civil society organisations within and outside Africa.  Impact Group International and the British Council, among many others.  He holds academic qualifications in Public Affairs, Development Studies, Philosophy and Anthropology from the University of Warwick, the University of Zambia and the Zambia National Seminary.  Martin serves on a number of advisory boards that include the Diana Princess of Wales Palliative Care Advisory Group, SoS Sahel International UK and the Impact International Corporate Social Responsibility Group.

Anoop Singh

Anoop Singh is a technologist who specializes ICT (Information and Communication Technology) led innovation and the commercial development and delivery of products and ideas. He has over 25 years experience in ICT spanning many industry sectors, including finance, telecommunications and healthcare, and has a particular interest in business led sustainable development.  

He serves on the boards of, and acts as an advisor to several companies in the telecommunications and healthcare sectors helping them with strategy setting and business development. He is a non-executive director of GC Healthcare, a New Zealand based healthcare organisation working with clinical decision support and analysis systems. Prior to this he was the Director of Technology Programmes at the Commonwealth Business Council, where his principal responsibilities include strategic programme and partner development for technology programmes in Commonwealth countries, with a particular focus on telecommunications and healthcare. In this role he worked with key programme stakeholders, funding organisations and investors, including the governments and agencies of the Commonwealth, international organisations, such as the United Nations, World Health Organisation, International Telecommunications Union, European Commission etc., and many multi-national and SME private sector organisations on ICT led initiatives, and research and development.

He sat on the Commonwealth Connects committee which oversees the Commonwealth Secretariat sponsored digital divide programme that addresses digital divide inequalities across the 53 countries of the Commonwealth. In 2005 he also proposed and initiated the Commonwealth eHealth Secretariat, which is now mandated to develop a common eHealth platform to share medical knowledge and skills across the 53 countries that make up the Commonwealth.

Over his career he has worked in Asia, Europe and the USA in a variety of technology management positions where he was involved in developing programmes to address eGovernment and access solutions; these have subsequently been being expanded to include education and healthcare. His areas of interest and expertise lie in the use of ICT for development, and the technology and innovation sectors. He has degrees in chemistry and computing, and lives in London.

Sarah Cotgreave

After graduating, Sarah had a series of jobs in blue chip companies such as Barclays, Reuters, GE and Citigroup before starting NOVOS, a leading consultancy and training organisation in 2002.

Sarah is a highly regarded lecturer, speaker, coach and consultant specialising in organisational effectiveness and change. Her expertise extends through the value chain, from Business Process Improvement using Lean and Six Sigma and Shared Services to optimise internal operations to Supply Chain Management, Purchasing and Outsourcing to maximise external relationships.

Sarah led a major programme to implement electronic systems and the related policy to increase the efficiency of the UK public sector when working with its suppliers for 3 years. The eSourcing project won the 2007 Government Computing Award for Innovation in Shared Services and was highlighted in the 2006 UK National Audit Office report on successful Business Change Programmes enabled by IT.

Sarah was also a member of the UK Cabinet Office Shared Services Team implementing strategy and policy for HR and Finance Shared Services and has since provided similar advice to the Singapore Government. Sarah also advised on UK procurement strategies for national telecommunications and identification systems.

Sarah has represented the UK on OECD and EU public procurement forums and standards bodies and is a member of the UK Anti-corruption Forum.

In the private sector, Sarah has advised on ethical Procurement and logistics, Cost Efficiency, Outsourcing, and Business Process Re-engineering implementation. Her 20 years’ working experience includes senior roles at GE, Barclays, Citigroup and Reuters.

Sarah has been a lecturer and examiner for the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply qualification and is a Fellow of the Institute. She is retained by National School of Government and Public Sector Management Wales to provide management training and is an PFI/PPP transaction adviser. She regularly runs senior management seminars in Asia on Lean Healthcare, Lean Financial Services and Shared Services and Government eProcurement. Her qualifications include BA (Hons) Business Studies, MBA in Financial Services, and she is a PRINCE2 Practitioner.

Professor Andrew Kakabadse

Andrew Kakabadse is Professor of International Management Development, Deputy Director of the School of Management and Chairman of the Management Development Board.  He is ACT Visiting Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra, Visiting Professor at Hangzhou University, China, Visiting Fellow at Babson College, Boston, USA and was Honorary Professional Fellow, Curtin University of Technology, Perth. He is a Fellow of the International academy of Management, Fellow of the British Psychology Society and Fellow of the British Academy of Management.

Andrew has consulted and Lectured in the UK, Europe, the USA, SE, Asia, china, Japan, Russia, Georgia, the Gulf States and Australia. He was also Vice Chancellor of the International Academy of Management and has been Chairman of the Division of Occupational Psychology, British Psychological Society, 2001. His current areas of interest focus on improving the performance of top executives and top executive teams, excellence in consultancy practice, corporate governance and conflict resolution and international relations. His top team database covers 14 nations and over 10,000 private and public sector organisations. The study of the strategic skills of top teams has now extended into Japan, china, Hong Kong and the USA. He has published 21 books, over 132 articles and 14 monographs, including the best-selling books Essence of Leadership, Politics of Management, working in Organisations and The Wealth Creators. His two new books are entitled, Geopolitics of Governance and just released, Smart Sourcing: International Best Practice. He holds positions on the boards of a number of companies. He is editor of the Journal of Management Development and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Managerial Psychology and the Leadership and Organisation Development Journal. He has also been adviser to a Channel 4 business series.

Professor Andy Valdar

Andy Valdar’s career begun in 1965 when he joined Thorn Electrical Industries as a student apprentice in support of his four-year honours degree course in electronic and electrical engineering at Loughborough University of Technology. On graduating in 1969, he joined BT (then the GPO) as an open-competition executive engineer in the Network Planning Department. Some 18 months after joining BT, Andy was awarded a bursary to study full time at Essex University for an MSc in telecommunications systems. On returning to BT he became involved in the pioneering work concerned with the introduction of digital switching in BT’s network.

In 1977, Andy took the opportunity of joining the UN ITU agency for a three –year teaching and course development assignment in India. As a consequence of this experience in India, he subsequently undertook ITU teaching assignments in Bangladesh, India, and Swaziland. Based on this experience, Andy became the co--author of a text book on digital SPC exchanges.

After returning to the UK in 1980, Andy’s career in BT has included network planning, international standards, technical strategy, marketing, product management and new product development. During the last nine years of his time in BT he became General Manager of network and technology strategy and his remit took on a global as well as UK responsibility. His strategy roles covered all parts of the network, and included representing the technical aspects in dealing with the national regulator. Andy worked closely with several of BT’s joint venture companies as well as with MCI and AT&T from the USA.

In 1999 Andy left BT to take up the BT chair of Telecommunication Strategy at University College London. His current role is as Academic Director of the BT Master’s Programme, which, now in its 16th year, leads to an MSc in Telecommunications Business. He also undertakes lecturing and project supervision on several modules of the UCL MSc Telecommunication courses as well as supervision of Engineering Doctorate students.

Andy is currently an active participant in international telecommunications conferences chairs the board of Editors on The Communications Journal and is the author of a recently published best selling text book explaining telecommunications networks.

Andy’s main strengths are his ability to establish a strategic view and to be able to explain complex technical issues in an easily understood systematic manner, making him a successful teacher and presenter.

David Wright

David had considerable experience at a senior level of the UK Civil Service of a wide range of managing business change and programme management. For the last seven years before leaving the service in 2000, he concentrated on the development of PFI and PPP.  He was responsible for delivering the first two prison PFI projects, developing overall UK PFI policy, project managing the two projects, and negotiating the commercial and financial terms.  

As Head of PFI in the UK Government’s Funding Agency for Schools and then a member of the UK Department for Education’s Private Finance team, he analysed proposed PPP schemes, determining whether the need for schemes was justified by local and national factors. He assisted school governing bodies to negotiate the deals.  

Continuing this work as an Associate of the UK Treasury Task Force and PartnershipsUK, David developed a unique blend of project analysis at the highest levels and assistance with the detailed negotiation of individual projects. He was involved in the work on drafting standard PFI contracts in the education sector. He has thus provided commercial support to the public sector in the successful completion of 3 prisons, 3 individual schools, and two large grouped-schools schemes. He has reviewed proposed projects in a number of sectors including health, education, criminal justice and nuclear energy. For the UK Atomic Energy Authority, he drafted output specifications and an outline business case.  

David continues to provide procurement advice to a number of public bodies. He has acted as the lead procurement adviser ensuring that the public sector client acts professionally throughout a procurement process. Recent clients include a health trust in England , the Greek government in relation to one hospital and four municipal projects, the Ministries of Finance and Justice in the Czech Republic and the State Government of Lagos in Nigeria . An earlier appointment in Egypt provided PPP advice to the Government in relation to their proposed schools projects. He also completed an outline business case for the Latvian Investment Development Agency for their first school PPP project. He has provided papers for the Greek Government on a step-by step guide on how to complete successfully PPP procurement and how do develop a public sector comparator.

  David is increasingly called upon as a mentor: he has recently assisted the Mayor of the City of Calgary by producing three policy papers on a PPP communications policy; how to set up a PPP Unit; and a step-by step guide on how to complete successfully PPP procurement. David is also a mentor to the Director of Resources of Algonquin College in Ottawa . David speaks at numerous conferences, seminars and workshops and has had published a number of articles on PPP.  

He is a special consultant on PPP to International Financial Services London (IFSL) and is an active member of its PFI/PPP Committee, is Chairman of IFSL’s Specialist Consultants Group, and one of the private sector members of the UK Government’s PPP Export Promotion Advisory Group. He co-authored IFSL’s PPP training material which has been delivered to a number of overseas clients.

Petter Matthews

Petter is Executive Director of Engineers Against Poverty.  EAP is an international non-governmental organisation working in the field of engineering and international development.  It was created in 1998 by the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE), the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and is funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).  Its mission is to work with industry, government and civil society to fight poverty and promote sustainable development.

 Petter’s career began in the construction industry in the UK, out of which he was recruited by Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) to work as a project manager for the Government of Tuvalu.  He then went to South Africa to work in urban development in the Eastern Cape, then became CEO of the Duncan Village Community Development Trust in East London, South Africa.  He then went to the School of Oriental Studies in London and the London School of Economics, where he gained his M.Sc in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries.  During this time he also did consultancy for VSO.  In 2002 he was appointed Executive Director of EAP.

Bob Middleton

Bob Middleton is a Management Consultant and Transaction Advisor with more than 30 years experience in the power sector. He has worked on projects in more than 20 countries, at the highest executive levels in major organisations and been responsible for change management initiatives including the restructuring of businesses, capacity building, organisational strengthening and commercial performance.  He has been successful in the development, bidding and implementation of large-scale power related projects internationally with National Power Plc and prior to this with the UK’s Central Electricity Generating Board. His most recent posting with National Power was Director-India, based in Delhi for four years having previously been resident in China for two years as the Project Director for one of China’s largest power projects.  In the last seven years he has operated independently as a consultant and business enhancement advisor to several key players in the power sector. He is a Chartered Engineer with first hand experience of a wide range of power technologies including coal, oil, gas, nuclear and renewables.

Ian Morfett

Following a long career in BTplc and a fruitful secondment to the Cabinet Office Ian is now contributing as a Non-Exec Director of his local NHS Trust. He is also a Teaching Fellow at UCL, leading Executive Programmes for leaders in the Telecoms and ICT industries. 

After over 30 years with BT Ian took an opportunity to complete a secondment with the Cabinet Office as Deputy Director of The Better Regulation Executive. In this role he was charged with finding and eradicating unnecessary Red Tape to enable industry to be more successful. Ian led a team of business secondees to liaise closely with Industry and Trade groups to identify key obstacles to business growth, and to work with Government Depts and regulators to eradicate them. 

Prior to that Ian was Managing Director of Strategy & Business Development for BT Wholesale, the network and carrier services arm of BT.  The business serves the wholesale needs of the intermediate market, other licensed telecom operators (OLOs) and service providers, including BTRetail.  BT Wholesale provides services which include voice, data, mobile & multi-media services; it has a turnover of £12Billion per annum. 

Prior to this Ian was Group Director of Regulatory Affairs for BT, responsible for Worldwide regulatory strategy and its management.  This period covered some major regulatory initiatives including the introduction of Local Loop Unbundling, the introduction of Price Caps on Network services, Broadband and 2 MMC investigations.

Ian is Chairman of Bellwether Enterprises, a consultancy offering services to the rail industry, and is a Director of O6T, a small yacht racing and leadership company. He has a BA (Hons) in Economics from Essex University and is a qualified (ACMA) accountant.  He is a life-long supporter of Fulham Football Club and enjoys hill-walking and running. He ran the London Marathon in 1999 and the New York marathon in 2007. In Feb 2001 he took part in the BT Global Challenge Yacht Race – sailing from Wellington to Sydney. He has recently completed The 3 Peaks Challenge to raise money for medical research. Ian lives in Letchworth and is married with one grown up daughter.

Terry Hawes

Terry is a specialist in Leadership, change management, organisational and management development, individual development and many Banking topics. He is an entertaining and practical trainer and consultant, bringing his banking experience to every assignment.

He has worked with an impressive list of clients both in the UK and abroad dealing with multi-national cultures.  Also he has been contracted to assist individual companies providing advice on organisational change and has undertaken both sector and individual organisation’s reviews of current development activity and providing detailed plans for the future. In his role of preferred supplier and tutor to the IFS, he has undertaken a number of large training and development contracts covering a wide range of expertise.

He began his working career in banking in 1972 with the Midland Bank and went on to manage a number of Retail outlets and also undertook a number of Head-Office roles in Marketing, Operations and Human Resources development.

During his time with the bank Terry took on the responsibility for the development of clerical staff that had potential for a future managerial role together with the development and delivery of a fast-track graduate development programme. Following the success of these programmes Terry headed both management development and the management skills areas for the Bank and became Senior Training Manager in the early 1990’s.

Terry is a joint author of a Shareholder Value series of Books published by the Financial World.

He was elected as a Fellow of the CIB in 1994 for his work in the training and education in the financial industry.

Terry’s Master of Science degree was attained in Training and Organisational Development.

Hugh Barrett

Hugh Barrett has had a varied career to date, after gaining a First Class Honours degree in Physics from Imperial College he joined British Airways where he was trained in purchasing.  After the airline he moved to work for Mars Inc. where he was Purchasing Manager for their electronics division.  From there he joined STC Submarine Systems (manufacturers of undersea telecommunications cables) – initially in a purchasing role before moving on take on responsibility for a design engineering department.  He then spent two years as IT Strategic Planning Manager for the entire STC group.  He was then headhunted to join BT in a commercial role; he then moved on to manage delivery of IT services for 100,000 UK based BT staff.  He then spent 5 year working internationally for BT – most notably for three years as “their man in Italy”.  On leaving BT he was appointed as Board member responsible for relations with UK Government’s strategic suppliers at the Office of Government Commerce within the Treasury. He was then promoted to Chief Executive of OGCbuying.solutions – the central purchasing organisation for UK Government – responsible for expenditure of over $4 billion per annum.  At the end of 2006 he left the UK civil service and now works as a freelance procurement consultant – currently focussing on major IT contracts for the English Fire Service and the police.  He is a non-executive director of the Criminal Records Bureau and chair of the Procurement Strategy Group at Essex University.  

  David Wakeford; MBE

David Wakeford is currently the International Trade Director of the Commonwealth Business Council. He was previously the Chief Executive of SITPRO, the UK government-sponsored organisation solely dedicated to the simplification of the international trade process. He was the founder of the developing country think tank, the ‘Boksburg Group’ focused on trade facilitation. He was also a founder member of the Trade Facilitation Alliance a business group established to encourage more efficient international trade practices.

Prior to this, he was Managing Director of his own company Global Trade Knowledge Ltd and Of Counsel to Baker and McKenzie. His wealth of experience in international trade was gained during his 26 year career with ICI. As the International Trade Manager for the ICI Group, he managed both trade policy development and the international transaction process. He also chaired the International Council of Chemical Associations, which covered 80% of the World chemical industry, the European Chemical Industries and the UK Chemical Industries Association Trade Committee. Through these key industry roles he successfully influenced the formulation of strategic trade policy objectives and the regulatory environment at crucial times.

During his time with CBC David has developed an expertise on trade issues throughout the Commonwealth. In particular he has extensive knowledge of the vital ‘Market Focused’ approach to international trade. He was honoured by Her Majesty the Queen for his work for the Chemical industry in the area of international trade.