Who We Are: The Board

Garth Glentworth

Board Member

Dr Glentworth retired from the Department for International Development in February 2005 after 27 years with that organisation and its predecessors. Prior to 1978, Dr Glentworth was a lecturer with the Development Administration Group of the then Institute of Local Government Studies in the University of Birmingham. He had worked in junior capacities in Africa before that - Makerere University in Uganda and the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland then based in Roma, Lesotho.

Dr Glentworth played a major role in the build-up of the priority sector now known as "Governance" but which had a number of names before settling on Governance in the mid-nineties. It involves a wide range of subject areas: capacity building in public administration and local government; the development of political institutions including the whole electoral sequence; the Justice Sector - police, prisons and Rule of Law institutions; and increasingly the interface between security, politics and development.

He brings to the ERIS Board this wide-ranging background and experience and considerable knowledge of the workings of aid agencies and their priorities - including their strategies, plans and detailed project design intentions in the field of election support defined widely.

Dr Glentworth was awarded the OBE for services to governance development and public service development in the New Year's Honours List of 2006.

 

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