Oxford Policy Management is an international development consultancy committed to helping low- and middle-income countries achieve growth and reduce poverty and disadvantage through public policy reform.

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Oxford Policy Management

As Acting Director of Operations, Jessica Rhys-Griffith is responsible for business planning, development, and implementing our operational management and development strategy.

The Business Services team includes project delivery services, communications and marketing, security, and IT. Jessica studied International Politics and Strategic Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Jessica Rhys-Griffith

Caroline is a programme management professional with over 15 years’ experience in a variety of sectors including energy, climate change, education, social protection, advocacy and civic engagement, economic development, and humanitarian assistance. Through her programme management and advisory work in Kenya and the region of east Africa, Caroline supports projects in outlining activities and developing program plans to achieve their intended outcomes. She has extensive experience in project start-up and close-out support, stakeholder engagement, analysis of value for money, risk management, budget development and monitoring, and client relationship and grant management. With broad experience of working with both the public and private sector, Caroline offers practical support in project delivery and organisation operations.

Caroline Thuo

Dee holds overall responsibility for strategy and business growth of OPM's Australia office, focusing on the Indo-Pacific region. She has over 20 years' experience in international development as a senior manager in programme management and business development, delivering large and complex development initiatives across Asia and the Pacific.   

Dee has delivered large and complex development initiatives across Asia and the Pacific on behalf of DFAT, multilaterals, and private sector clients. She has experience of working in Solomon Islands, Tonga, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Timor Leste, Vietnam, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, China, and Nepal. She holds an MA in International Studies, and a BA in Asian Studies, Indonesia Studies and Development Studies.

Dee Hartvigsen

Dwi Rahardiani

Roger Cooke is an interim Non-Executive Director, and was managing director of OPM for seven years, from 2002 to 2009. Prior to this he worked as a partner in a global management consulting firm for over thirty years, primarily in organisational restructuring and development and the management of change for governmental, private sector, and non-profit organisations in low-, middle-, and higher-income countries.

Roger has served as a Board Director and Chair of listed and private companies, and as Trustee and Chair of voluntary organisations. This has included extensive experience as a member of Board committees.

Roger holds a MA in modern history from Oxford University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania.

Roger Cooke

Marie Staunton C.B.E. has experience of governance in the public, commercial and NGO sectors in the UK, Europe, and internationally.

Marie started her career working with homeless women, men, and families for the Simon Community in London and Belfast. A solicitor, she worked with community groups and women’s organisations at community law centres, was Legal Officer at Liberty and UK Director of Amnesty. She moved to the private sector as Publishing Director of a Pearson company and became vice chair of the global Amnesty Board (the IEC). She moved back to the NGO sector to become Deputy Director of UNICEF UK, then served as CEO of Plan UK launching its girl’s campaign, was subsequently CEO of Plan Canada and of the International Federation of Anti Leprosy Associations.

She served as Chief Executive of Plan UK having earlier worked for UNICEF and Pearson’s. She has been the UK board member at the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, chaired Raleigh International, the Equality and Diversity Forum, Crown Agents, SOAS University, and a variety of NGO and commercial organisations.

IN 2013, she received a CBE for her humanitarian work.

Marie Staunton

David has spent most of his professional career with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a leading global consulting firm, working with clients primarily on matters involving major strategy and organisational change. At BCG, David led the firm’s Financial Institutions Practice, chaired BCG’s global practice areas, and was a member of its Executive Committee. He began his working life at Arthur Andersen and Company where he qualified as an accountant.

He is a trustee of the Childhood Trust, London’s childhood poverty charity, and a director of the Forward Institute, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to developing responsible leaders.

David studied Jurisprudence at Oxford University, and gained a Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

David Rhodes

Linda Muruganandan

Ashini is Chief Operating Officer for Oxford Policy Management, based in Kenya. She is responsible for driving the effectiveness and efficiency of OPM’s global operational platform.

Ashini has over 15 years' experience across Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda, Mauritius, Zambia, DRC and South Africa. Her background and experience covers strategy development and execution, business transformation, business process and internal control improvement, project management, and system implementation, for a wide range of clientele, in numerous industries including the public sector, education, consumer and industrial markets, financial services, oil and gas, and media. She holds a BSc in Biochemistry and Management, and an MSc in Management and Internal Audit with first class honours. She is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and Certified Government Auditing Professional (CGAP) from the Institute of Internal Auditors, and a Program Management Prince2 Practitioner.

Ashini Patel


Mark is the Chief Executive Officer, having joined OPM as Chief Economist in 2012.

In his capacity as Chief Economist, Mark Henstridge is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company's work in development economics. Before joining Oxford Policy Management, Mark was Acting Executive Director of the International Growth Centre (IGC), an initiative funded by DFID at LSE and the University of Oxford. He was Head of Macroeconomics at BP, and has previously worked in the African and Fiscal Affairs Departments of the International Monetary Fund, on Mali, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria and Egypt. Mark has also worked in Uganda’s Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Planning.

Mark has a DPhil from the University of Oxford, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BSc from Bristol University. He is a Research Associate of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies at the University of Oxford.

Mark Henstridge

Karen is our HR Director. She leads OPM’s HR team, and is responsible for our People Strategy and for ensuring that our culture attracts, develops, and retains an engaged and high performing workforce.

Karen has a breadth of commercial and HR experience across a diverse spread of organizations, from large blue chip multinationals through to SMEs. She has worked within a variety of sectors, including financial services, charities, and international development.

She brings a wealth of experience, having delivered improvements across engagement, culture, and performance, and having led mergers and acquisitions, organization development programs, and change. Prior to moving into HR she worked within Sales and Marketing, and this helps her maintain a commercial lens whilst keeping colleagues and partners at the heart of everything.

Karen Bush

Suresh Tiwari is our Office director in Nepal and a public health and public financial management professional.

He has a wealth of experience working at country level in Nepal, Thailand, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Australia and Canada, where he has helped with capacity building of government institutions and NGOs.

Suresh’s areas of expertise include demand-side financing, conditional cash transfers, social protection, performance-based financing, transaction accounting and budget control systems (TABUCS), pro-poor health financing, and public health education.

He has been involved in forming national policies on issues including health insurance and financing and tobacco control, and has hands-on experience in preparing audit clearance guidelines and internal control systems.

Suresh is currently working as one of the advisers for the DFID-funded Nepal Health Sector Support Programme, which follows a principle of sector wide approach (SWAp).

Suresh Tiwari

Prabal Singh leads our India office with overall responsibility for organisational strategy, development, and performance.

Prabal has worked with central and state government ministries including the Government of India’s Department of Information Technology, and the Government of Madhya Pradesh’s Department of Public Health & Family Welfare. He led on project implementation, knowledge management and capacity building for India’s national e-governance programme.

Joining us as Fieldwork director in 2013, Prabal has developed the organisation’s survey and fieldwork capabilities. He has published widely on health policy and use of survey data for policy analysis in the health sector.

Prabal has a PhD in public systems from IIM Ahmedabad.

Prabal Vikram Singh


Femi's expertise is in programme evaluation; prior to joining us, he worked as a field coordinator with the Development Impact Evaluation Unit (DIME) of the World Bank, evaluating Bank and Nigeria-supported projects. His other previous roles have seen him monitoring programmes and designing and implementing impact evaluations and Management Information Systems (MIS).

Femi is currently working on the impact evaluation component of the Child Development Grant Project. Alongside this he is also evaluating MercyCorps’ Educating Nigeria Girls in New Enterprises (ENGINE II)project, and the Discovery Project (DP-2), another education project run by the Discovery Learning Alliance in collaboration with the Oxford team.

Femi has an MSc in Population and International Health from Harvard University, and a BSc in Human Nutrition from University of Ibadan.

Olufemi Adegoke

Charles Sokile is the co-director of our Tanzania office.

As a specialist in senior governance, he has more than 15 years of hands-on experience in the fields of accountability, anti-corruption and humanitarian work, strategic planning, organisational development, programme management, and business development strategies. He has worked on projects in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Charles spent 10 years as a public sector advisor for DFID, where he led major projects in Tanzania including the UK’s contribution to the Public Sector Reforms Programme III, and the UK’s humanitarian support given to UNHCR, UNICEF and IOM to improve migration and manage refugees and asylum seekers from the Great Lakes humanitarian situation.

Charles has a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Dar es Salaam.

Charles Sokile

Abdur Rauf Khan has over 20 years of experience in programme management. His areas of expertise include aid coordination, financial management, and climate change. He has extensive experience in managing projects, and a strong theoretical background in development economics, economic policy management, with an emphasis on cross-cutting themes such as gender, environment, and poverty.

Abdur Rauf Khan

Paul Batchelor joined the Board of OPM in 2020 as non-executive director, having previously acted in the same position from 2004 to 2005, then serving as chairman from 2006 to 2013.

Paul began his career as a fellow in the Department of Planning and Statistics in Swaziland before becomming acting chief economist for the Malawi Government, where his work included international trade negotiations for Malawi’s membership of the Lome Convention.

Returning to the UK, Paul joined Coopers & Lybrand in the Economic Studies Group, part of the Management Consulting practice. He became a partner of the firm in 1982 and coordinated the firm's global consulting activities and methodologies from 1989 to 95. He was a member of the global management team responsible for implementing the worldwide merger which created PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Paul is also a non-executive director of Abacus Consulting Technology and Abacus Cambridge Partners which provide technology-based consulting and outsourcing services in Pakistan and the Middle East with a small presence in the UK and USA.

He joined the Board of Crown Agents in 2006 and served as non-executive group chairman from 2007 to 2015 and chair of Crown Agents Bank until 2017. He has also served as a Trustee of [WaterAid](/org/wateraid).

Paul Batchelor

Owen Willcox is a principal consultant with 17 years of experience as a professional economist. He has worked on budgeting, public policy, forecasting, trade analysis, economic diplomacy, and industrial policy. He has used advanced models and econometrics for forecasting and policy analysis. Owen worked in the National Treasury of South Africa for 11 years before joining [Oxford Policy Management](/org/oxford-policy-management).

Owen Willcox


Karin Seyfert leads OPM Europe team. She has been a senior consultant with OPM since 2014, with deep rooted expertise and track-record on social protection, humanitarian emergencies, migration, monitoring and evaluation. She has led large scale, flagship OPM programmes for European and UN agencies in Africa and the Middle East. Her humanitarian monitoring and evaluation work includes supporting [UNHCR](/org/unhcr) on a review of their global social protection strategy in education and child protection.

Karin Seyfert

Rich Williams is our Director of Clients and Country Director of our UK office, leading on strengthening our relationships with our current clients and developing opportunities to work with new clients across the globe.

He is a development economist with specific expertise in natural resource governance, financial inclusion, market development, and impact evaluation. Rich has worked extensively with governments on public sector reform through managing economic development projects, and has been an adviser for extended periods in west Africa and the south Pacific. He was recently an embedded adviser supporting Sierra Leone’s post-Ebola recovery efforts.

Rich has worked within the Solomon Islands Government and the EU, and has experience working in Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Uganda, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, the UK, and Zambia.

His current work includes a multi-year programme to improve governance and revenue collection in the Nigerian petroleum sector, and a research programme to explore the links between energy and economic growth.

Rich holds a CMI Level 5 Diploma in Management and Leadership from the Chartered Management Institute. He has an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics, and a BA (Hons) in Economics and Economic History from the University of York.

Richard Williams

Christopher Adam brings to our Board 20 years’ experience as an academic economist working principally on the macroeconomics and public finance of low-income economies. He is Professor of Development Economics for the Department of International Development, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the European Development Network (EUDN).

Christopher began his career as an ODI Fellow at the Ministry of Finance in Swaziland from 1987-89. He is a regular visiting scholar at the research department of the IMF and is the Lead Academic for Tanzania at the International Growth Centre (IGC). In April 2016 he stepped down from ten years of service as Vice Chair of the Board of the African Economic Research Consortium. He has also held several editorial positions, including with the Journal of Development Economics, and the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

Christopher studied economics at the Universities of St Andrews and Oxford, and gained a DPhil. in Economics from the University of Oxford.

He is also the Chair of our Audit and Risk Committee.

Christopher Adam


Dougal is our group chief financial officer. He is responsible for the financial accounting, donor and statutory compliance across all group entities. He also has responsibility for setting the internal control framework and ensuring our organisation's project portfolio adheres to financial management best practice.

Dougal has 20 years’ experience in the development sector ranging from humanitarian response work in Jordan, Yemen and Iraq, US Government compliance work in Angola, Vietnam and Somalia and more recently as chief financial officer of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, a Swiss Foundation, with country offices in 10 developing countries including India, Pakistan and Mozambique.

Dougal is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, has an MSc in Agricultural Development Economics and most recently an MBA from Manchester Business School.

Dougal Freeman

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