Peter Reed is an internationally experienced strategy, organisational development, and human resources development consultant, specialising in high level policy advice, policy and strategy development, strategic planning, organisational and institutional capacity assessment, leadership and senior management development. He has significant experience of the project leadership and direction of high value transformational change programmes in the UK and 24 transitional countries, principally in the field of public and civil service reform, and assessment of systemic and institutional capacity – particularly in complex post-conflict environments. He also specialises in programme evaluations and project output to purpose reviews which he has conducted for HMG’s DFID, the World Bank, Swedish SIDA and UNDP.
His specialist subjects are governance capacity and stability assessments, institutional development and restructuring, strategic planning, performance management systems (including balanced-scorecard benchmarking for Business Process Improvement), functional reviews, security and education sector reviews, leadership and senior management competence development and performance coaching. He has wide experience of the co-ordination of the component elements of government modernisation agendas such as functional reviews, security sector reform, budgetary reform, high level national strategic planning and integrated performance management systems. He has a good working knowledge of French and German, an honours degree in Russian, and a basic knowledge of Arabic and Kiswahili.