Management team

Roger Usher is ASI's Chairman. Roger is a widely respected public sector consultant with extensive experience of designing and implementing government reform programmes in the UK and internationally. He has an outstanding record in project delivery for public sector clients throughout Asia, Africa and the Caribbean and working with international development agencies. He has also worked on behalf of the UN and its agencies including the FAO and WMO. His work has included budgetary reform, governance and institutional reform of central and local government, and the improvement of public service delivery.

William Morrison serves as Managing director as well as Director of ASI's Government Reform Practice. He joined the company in 1994 and has worked primarily in delivering programmes of technical assistance since that time. William's work in the mid 1990s was focused on support to transition countries, such as Ukraine and Romania, in developing and implementing economic reform programmes and in setting up new central government institutions. In the late 1990s he directed a broad range of technical assistance projects in South Asia focused on reform of state owned enterprises, labour adjustment and the establishment of social safety net programmes. In this period he worked in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and extensively at state level in India. In 2004 and 2005 he was team leader in Baghdad of an ASI team tasked with setting up the prime minister's office and other centre of government institutions. William now directs major projects across the Government Reform Practice and is responsible for ASI's post conflict and fragile state portfolio.

As a Director of ASI, Peter Young has worked on the design, development, and implementation of policy reform projects since 1991. He has led many of ASI's multi-year, multi-disciplinary institutional reform and policy implementation projects and has deep expertise in addressing the stakeholder mobilisation, inter-ministerial co-ordination and resource allocation challenges of such assignments. He has particular experience of achieving results from difficult projects in challenging circumstances and unstable conditions. His experience spans a wide range from government reform to economic restructuring. Peter currently serves as ASI's Director of Strategy and Operations.

Amitabh Shrivastava is Director of ASI's Economic Reform Practice. Amitabh joined the company in 1998 and has worked in delivering a range of economic and government reform projects across the world. He is a financial economist by training and holds an MSc from the London School of Economics. His project experience is mainly in areas of private sector development (PSD), business for development (B4D) initiatives, infrastructure reforms including PPP / PSP, utility regulation, privatisation and restructurings, and public administration reforms. In 2004, Amitabh set-up ASI's first overseas branch office in New Delhi. Amitabh has advised Governments in over 25 countries. His recent projects have been in India, UAE, Nigeria, South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Afghanistan, South Sudan and directly advising the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, DFID and Sida. Prior to joining ASI in 1998, Amitabh worked with a leading investment bank in Mumbai. Amitabh now directs major projects in the Economic Reform Practice, and continues to contribute in the development and direction of ASI's work in South Asia.

Harry Kendell joined ASI in 2008 to take on the management of its business and extensive project portfolio in South Asia, including oversight of the company's permanent office in New Delhi. Harry was previously a director in a development economics consultancy, where he led its business in international economic integration and revenue modernisation. He has extensive experience living and working in South Asia and has directed and managed development assignments in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal with DFID, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the European Commission. He has also managed and led government and policy reform projects in Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean. Before his consulting career, Harry was a DFID economist in its London headquarters and an Overseas Development Institute fellow assisting the Government of Guyana design and implement policy reform and modernisation strategies. Prior to this, he was a Commonwealth Economics Scholar in India.

Riaan Bloem is the Director of Finance.  He is a chartered accountant who joined the company in 2006 after working for The Audit Commission, an independent watchdog, where he audited local government to provide assurance and promote value for taxpayers' money.  Prior to immigrating to the UK, Riaan held an established position in a well respected South African auditing firm.  Having gained recognition and advancement to the role of Director of Finance, Riaan plays a key role in bringing together the ASI Group accounts and establishing international policies, all the while striving to achieve a first rate service from the department and the company as a whole.

Jonathan is the Manager of ASI's Economic Reform Practice and leads our work in the fields of private sector development and minerals sector reform.  An economist by training, he joined the company in 2002 and has since successfully delivered a large number of economic growth and government reform programmes in South Asia, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.  He has worked for a wide range of development agencies and directly for host governments.  Most recently Jonathan has delivered our minerals sector governance project in Sierra Leone and the ENABLE business advocacy programme in Nigeria.  Jonathan is a member of the Communities and Small-scale Mining (CASM) forum and has particular expertise in market development (M4P) interventions.

Angie Kikkides is a fully qualified CIPD professional who joined ASI in 1998.  She has an MA in Personnel & Development from Westminster University.  Angie is an HR generalist, highly knowledgeable in all areas of HR management, including compensation, benefits, diversity and internal communications.  As well as proactively keeping the business up-to-date with employment legislation, she manages employee relations and provides generalist HR support, advice, guidance and counsel to all practice areas as well as permanent and temporary overseas offices.