Hilary is Managing Director of Verulam Associates Ltd and a director of Verulam Associates Bangladesh Ltd and Verulam Consultants Private Ltd. Hilary is an experienced educationalist and researcher with substantial management and consultancy expertise. She undertakes research and consultancy in primary, secondary and tertiary education focusing on policy, strategic and implementation. She also has experience across other sectors including governance and rural livelihoods. Hilary has worked in Bangladesh, India, Vietnam and Laos for governments, a range of donors and NGOs. She has worked closely at policy level with both government and donors, has excellent facilitation, team leadership, writing and research skills. In addition to her consultancy and research Hilary is an Honorary Lecturer at the School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK

Paul is a Director of all three Verulam Group companies and hs lead responsibility for professional development within the group. Paul undertook postgraduate social work training and worked in the UK Probation Service before becoming an NGO manager. He has over 15 years management experience at local, national and international levels. Since 1992 Paul has worked as a consultant with NGOs, Local, and National Governments with an emphasis on policy development, change management and sector wide working. Paul has undertaken consultancy assignments in Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Cambodia, Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, Jordan, Serbia, Kosovo, Armenia, the Kyrgyz Republic and the UK. Paul's particular skills are in governance, institutional development, process consultancy, facilitation, evaluation, coaching and mentoring. He has a Masters Degree in management development and social responsibility and post graduate diploma in clinical organisational psychology.

Managing Director of Verulam Associates Bangladesh Ltd Omar is an experienced governance and human resource development consultant, evaluator and facilitator. He founded and was executive director of the Centre for Development Services from 1984 to 2002 and has over 25 years management experience at local and national levels. Omar has gained skill, knowledge and wide range of experiences working with local, National, international NGOs and with Government. He has worked for NORAD, Sida, DFIDB, DFIDI, UNFPA, UNDP, SDC, Novib and other national and international agencies in the area of human rights, organisational development, Reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and ARH, etc. His skill include, programme designing, participatory monitoring, appraisal, organisational development, governance network, advocacy, OPR and participatory evaluation. He has provided consultancy in Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Papua New guinea and Bangladesh with Verulam Associates.

Motasin Billah is a Deputy Manager of finance and administration in Dhaka office of Verulam Group. Billah has a professional accountancy background and has completed CA articleship with ACNABIN Chartered Accountants and joined Verulam Group in Dhaka Office to develop his management level competence and experience in the area of accounts, finance, administration and human resources. He is responsible to maintain the books of accounts, finance, taxation, corporate affairs and administrative systems. Billah completed B. Sc (Hons) & M.Sc in physics from Rajshahi University and MBA (Accounting and Information Systems) from Dhaka University.

Raghav has been a development consultant operating in Nepal and South Asia for the last fifteen years. He has long association with the NGO movement of Nepal. His areas of expertise are NGO management, design, appraisal, review and evaluation with a focus on health, gender, development partnerships and governance. He has conducted training programmes on participatory project management, knowledge management and rights based approaches. Raghav has worked with Verulam Associates since 2000, and became our country representative in Nepal in 2004.

Indrajith (Jith) Wijesiriwardana has been working as a consultant in development finance since 1992, specializing in Microfinance and Small and Medium enterprises (SME). He brings in a wide range of experience to the fore. His diverse skills and expertise cover financial management, portfolio management, product costing and development, microfinance in post conflict regions, institutional capacity building and training. His services have been secured by a wide range of institutions comprising of funding agencies, MFIs, NGOs, International Consulting firms. His experience spreads over four continents and nearly 20 countries. By profession Jith is a Chartered Management Accountant and holds an MBA and MA in Economics. Prior to the current practice in consulting he was in corporate banking in Sri Lanka. Since 2005 Jith has been based in the UK and is Verulam’s Senior Associate Consultant for the microfinance and financial management sectors.

Dr Bina D'Costa is the Convenor of the Bachelor Program in Security Analysis and a lecturer with the Faculty of Asian Studies, the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra. She was previously the post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and the John Vincent Fellow in the Department of International Relations of the Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies at the ANU, here she earned her PhD in 2003. Her research interests are in postconflict peacebuilding, governance, gender and conflict, gender and development and the role of civil society and social movements. She has also focused extensively on both development and human security issues in South Asia. Bina is working with on historical injustices, truth and memory in relation to the strategies of civil society in demanding justice when there is a hostile government in power. This action-oriented research informs her book manuscript titled 'Burden' of the State: Gendering War Crimes and National Identity Politics in Postcolonial South Asia'. Bina is Verulam’s Senior Associate Consultant for post conflict and peace building.