Ben Taylor
CEO @Agora Global
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WORK HISTORY
CEO @Agora Global
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Agora Global is a leading consulting, research, and training organisation with a mission to deliver systemic change for inclusive development.Ben was part of the founding of Agora with the objective of reinvigorating a spirit of critical and creative thinking among those working in emerging economies.Ben leads Agora\'s technical work and organisational strategy, developing new services to help clients achieve shared objectives.Positions: Team leader, Chief technical adviser, evaluation and measurement adviser, programme and intervention design, annual reviewerSectors: Agriculture, Industrial development, Water, hygiene and sanitation (WASH), health, nutrition, resilience and emergency programming, forestry.Countries: Over 100 countries across six continents including Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Liberia, Bangladesh, Indonesia.Clients: Bilaterals (DFID, Sida, SDC, Danida), Multilaterals (CGAP, World Bank, UN DESA), Foundations (Gatsby Africa), NGOs (Mercy Corps, GOAL), and Private Sector organisations (AMC group, KJ Flora).
EDUCATION
The University of Sheffield
BA, Geography
University of East Anglia
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Development Economics and International Development
University of Cambridge
PhD, Geographical Research
ABOUT BEN TAYLOR
Ben is an innovator with a mission. He helps to identify and implement sustainable solutions to challenges on behalf of public and private sector clients, his business, his colleagues, but most importantly the disadvantaged communities whose lives his work ultimately aims to benefit.Ben is an expert in systemic approaches to development. He has assisted in the development and refinement of new concepts in private sector development included most recently in the Making Markets Work for the Poor approach and systemic change. His specialisms include applying market systems development approaches to new contexts such as education, water, post-conflict states, resilience and fragility, and basic services. He has global experience across six continents and specialises in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Ethiopia, where he has spent the last 15 years working. He has extensive experience in programme and intervention design, monitoring and evaluation, and technical advisory services. He has worked for a wide range of public and private funders including DFID, USAID, SIDA, SDC, the World Bank, humanitarian focused NGOs such as GOAL and Mercy Corps, and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. He currently holds academic positions on the board of several journals, guest lectureships as well as holding an honorary Research Fellowship at the University of Durham.He has experience across 100 countries, six continents, 15 years, and a broad spectrum of clients and sectors addressing the whole spectrum of development challenges.If you share Agora\'s mission for sustainable and inclusive development, then please get in touch, whether you want our help and support, to work with us as a collaborator or part of the team.
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