Read engineering and economics at Cambridge. Did work in heavy engineering and the iron and steel industry before training as a Chartered Accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers in London. A fairly fast track corporate career in Canada and the USA including pulp and paper mill construction, consumer products, high tech products and the international fisheries industry. A long period working as a consultant on assignments in the relief and development sector ... World Bank, the UN and others. Work experience in more than 50 countries, mainly national level planning and evaluation, also sector and community level work ... often in humanitarian emergency situations.
