David Shelley
Team Lead @NTU International A/S
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WORK HISTORY
Team Lead @NTU International A/S
Honiara, SB
The Team Leader has overall responsibility for technical leadership, strategic direction, and coordination of the full consultancy, ensuring that all Task Groups are delivered in strict compliance with the ToR, ADB requirements, and Government expectations. They lead the formulation of sector development strategies, institutional reform roadmaps, and business process modernization across both road and maritime subsectors, covering roads, bridges and road safety, as well as maritime infrastructure and operations (including ports, domestic wharves/jetties/ramps, and associated safety and regulatory functions). They integrate and quality-control inputs from the full specialist team (roads, maritime, maintenance, procurement/contract management, safeguards, transport economics, and financial analysis) to ensure consistent recommendations and an implementable action plan. The Team Leader serves as the principal point of contact with MID, CPIU/PMU and ADB, steering consultations, validating findings, and overseeing formal reporting (inception, interim, draft and final outputs)
EDUCATION
United Nations Institute for Training and Research
Green Growth
Hult International Business School
Management Information Systems, General
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Executive Education
MDT International
Project Economics and Risk Management (Oil and Gas)
Newcastle University
B.Sc Hons
Amsterdam Institute of Finance
Project Finance
University of Birmingham
Master's degree, Transportation
SKILLS
ABOUT DAVID SHELLEY
Programme Manager and Team Leader with over 40 years’ experience delivering donor-funded transport and infrastructure programmes for EU/EDF, the UN system, ADB, World Bank and bilateral agencies, across 50+ developing countries. Specialist in transport and infrastructure economics and policy, economic and financial appraisal, institutional and sector reform, procurement and probity, and monitoring and evaluation, with experience working both on the client side and in advisory roles.Extensive experience on projects and programmes funded and/or overseen by major multilateral and bilateral partners, including EU/EDF, the UN system (UNDP, UNCDF, UN-Habitat), ADB, AfDB, World Bank, JICA/JBIC, Sida, KfW/GIZ, Danida, DfID/FCDO, AusAID, KFW/GIZ and private sector sources. Also engaged as a short-term staff or individual consultant for the World Bank, UNDP and ILO, focused on economic appraisal and investment decision support. Professional delivery and advisory work has covered Europe, Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Australasia and the Pacific, and Central and South America.Green growth and climate action are consistent themes, with a strong commitment to low-carbon development and sustainable energy and transport solutions that mitigate sector and sub-sector contributions to climate change. This includes integrating climate change adaptation and resilience considerations into sector planning and investment design.Specialist experience includes e-bus and e-mobility strategy and policy formulation, including Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) support for cities in Asia, Africa and Europe. Wider infrastructure experience spans multimodal transport and logistics, highways and bridges, railways and MRT, aviation, urban transport systems and ports, with associated investment planning and implementation support. Strong background in institutional and private sector development and good governance, including sector reform, capacity building. Technical and analytical work includes economic policy advisory services, feasibility studies in transport and energy, economic and financial analysis, and business case development.Particularly experienced in programme and project direction and management, procurement and probity (including bid evaluation and quality assurance), and monitoring and evaluation research and indicator frameworks.Over thirty years’ senior management experience directing and managing large, complex infrastructure assistance programmes, including programme design and portfolio management.
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