Management team

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.

Layth has a PHD in molecular biology from Trinity College Dublin in 1989.  Layth then worked for Accenture's Public Sector Practice for 9 years leading a number of large and complex change management projects with major UK Government Departments.  In 1998 he was then involved in setting up and managing the UK's first public/private urban regeneration company in Liverpool, charged with spearheading the transformation of the City's social and economic fortunes.  Layth later worked with ASI as the team leader for the centre of government work in Iraq.  More recently he has been managing and growing a highly successful group of international communication companies.  His key skill sets are in Strategic Change Management in large, complex environments, public sector reform  and Urban Regeneration.    

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.

Riaan Bloem is ASI's senior financial management officer with responsibility for all systems and reporting at corporate and project level. His work involves establishing policies, processes and procedures to facilitate and monitor financial flows to and within projects, sometimes in extremely difficult working environments. He also has overall responsibility for managing project, country and foreign exchange related financial risk.

Prior to joining ASI, Riaan worked with the UK Audit Commission, which drives economy, efficiency and effectiveness in local public services.  His work included formal audits, reviews of reporting systems and value-for-money analysis for a number of local authorities and NHS Trusts. He is therefore very familiar with the UK Public Service delivery and financial reporting standards.

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.

Andrew Kuhn is Practice Manager of the Government Reform practice.  An economist by training Andrew served as ASI's resident team leader of our highly sensitive negotiations support in Ramallah for several years.  Andrew rejoined the senior management team in 2010 and in addition to his practice manager role is in charge of our large portfolio of work in Afghanistan.

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.

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.