Advisor

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Gareth Wall has worked in international local government policy and research for over decade since graduating with an MPhil from JNU in Applied Economics in 2010. Through his work at the Commonwealth Local Government Forum and Stevenage Borough Council along with his research, he has extensively engaged with the local government systems and key actors (ministries, municipal associations, local councils and research organisation) with many member countries of the Commonwealth, as well as more detailed undertaken field research in Sudan, Tanzania and India. He has been part of multi-organisational development research teams and for eight years was a core member of a team delivering research and programme work funded by the European Commission, Cities Alliance, UNDP, UN Women among others, leading the monitoring and evaluation, developing SMART and dynamic performance indicators. His doctoral thesis through the University of Birmingham and the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata looks at capturing local priorities through deliberative democracy for human development.

Gareth has published extensively on areas of public policy and local governance. These have included academic research and data analysis papers, policy documents and influential policy insights and discussion papers. In addition, he has a long term, proven commitment to high quality, peer-reviewed, open-access academic publishing, since 2013 acting as assistant editor for the Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, and before that the Journal of Ladakh Studies. He has sat of the boards of three well-respected academic associations: the Human Development & Capabilities Association; the Development Studies Association, and the International Association for Ladakh Studies.