My first career was in industrial design, architecture and planning. During the 1980s I brought the technical and management skills from these disciplines to the international development sector as co-founder of a small UK INGO working in India, which I directed and successfully developed over a period of 12 years until 1997.
Since then I have worked as a freelance consultant to a wide range of international non-government organisations,
development education and other non-profit organisations – see
Clients and
CV – initially with a focus on
appropriate technology and
environmental regeneration. I have a broad knowledge of low cost, low impact, building technologies (
ferrocement and
stabilised compressed earth blocks),
water and sanitation, renewable energy sources (
windpower,
solar systems,
biogas,
fuel-efficient smokeless cookstoves),
water harvesting, integrated agroforestry, shared forest management,
environmental education and building community resilience to climate change.
From more recent work as a psychotherapist with individuals and groups I have developed an experiential dimension to
social inclusion initiatives and capacity building with project staff, southern partners and community groups.