Adam Smith International
People
- Roger Usher - Managing Director
Roger Usher is ASI’s Managing Director and head of the Government Reform Practice. 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. He is currently directing ASI’s project to rebuild public sector management capacity in Afghanistan.
William Morrison - Director
William Morrison is a Director at ASI, with particular expertise in privatisation and labour adjustment. William has led several large privatisation projects in Eastern Europe and South Asia for ASI since 1995 and continues to lead two major transaction programmes in India . He has advised the Governments of India, Romania, Jordan, Ukraine and Nepal on labour adjustment issues and has designed and managed two major “Social Safety Programs” for more than 30,000 workers in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa since the late 1990s.
William has acted as an adviser on labour adjustment for a number of recent World Bank missions - most recently Iraq - and led the ASI team that recently prepared a comprehensive Labour Adjustment Toolkit for the World Bank.
William Morrison
Peter Young - International Director
Peter Young is International Director and co-founder of Adam Smith International. He has worked on the creation, development and implementation of economic and political reform policies since the early 1980s. His expertise in the reform of state owned enterprises was initially developed in the UK, where he was responsible for the design of privatisation initiatives that were implemented by the UK Government.
Peter used this experience to expand into major technical assistance projects and has advised on economic reform for governments in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, USA and the former Soviet Union. A specialist in restructuring policy and implementation in developing countries, Peter’s key expertise is in the development of SOE reform strategy, including the design and implementation of the institutional framework and building the required political commitment to reform.
Peter Young
Amitabh Shrivastava - International Director
Amitabh Shrivastava, International Director, is responsible for ASI's operations in South Asia / Asia Pacific, and continues to work in projects in Africa. Amitabh is an economist by training and holds a MSc from the London School of Economics. His experience and expertise range from advising governments in implementing complex civil service reforms for improving governance and improving service delivery to the poor, advising in developing PSP / PPPs in infrastructure with a focus on provision of infrastructure to the poor, setting-up and capacity building regulators, labour reforms, social safety nets and privatisations.
Amitabh has advised Governments in over 20 countries in Asia, Africa and East Europe. Recent projects are in India, South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Oman, Macedonia and Nepal. Prior to joining ASI in 1999, Amitabh worked with a leading Investment Bank and was based in Mumbai. Amitabh was responsible for setting-up ASI's operations in India.
Peter Young
Andrew Ros - Finance Director
Andrew Ros, is a qualified Chartered Accountant and is currently completing an MBA. He is an expert in Corporate Governance, and is a member of the International Compliance Association. He has held the position of CFO for a mining company in Sierra Leone, and been an Executive Board member for another mineral exploration company operating in Madagascar. Andrew has significant experience working in Europe, the US
