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Dr. Hilary Thornton BSc PGCE MA (Ed Man) PhD
 
Hilary Thornton  

Hilary is Managing Director of Verulam Associates Ltd and a director of Verulam Associates Bangladesh Ltd and Verulam Consultant 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, strategy and implementation management. She also has experience across other sectors including governance and rural livelihoods. Hilary has worked in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam and Laos for governments, multilateral and bilateral development partners and NGOs. She has worked closely at policy level with both government and development partners, 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 Thornton BSc MSc DipSW Dip Clinical Org. Psych
 
Paul Thornton  

Paul is a Director of all three Verulam Group companies and has 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, Myanmar, 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, coaching  and mentoring. Paul has a Masters Degree in management development and social responsibility and post graduate diploma in clinical  organisational psychology.

 
 
Dr. Omar Faruque Chowdhury BA MA PhD
 
Omar Faruque Chowdhury  

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 exprience 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.

 
 
Nipa Mary D'Costa MCom MAAT CACC
 
Nipa Mary D’Costa  

Nipa is a Director of Verulam Associates Bangladesh Ltd and undertakes consultancy in financial management and organisational development. From 2003-2008 she was head of Finance and Administration for the Verulam Group but is currently based in Australia. Nipa provides a link with the Asia Pacific region for the Verulam Group and continues to provide senior level financial advice at director level.

 
 
AnuradhaMukherjee BSc MA Dip Systems Mgt
 
Anuradha Mukherjee  

A director of Verulam Consultants Private Limited, Anuradha is a development communication specialist with experience in children's, women's, environment and human rights issues. Anuradha has designed and implemented public campaigns on social issues, managed media projects, scripted and produced video documentaries, and researched the impact of broadcast media. Her experience with NGOs, government and the corporate sector in India and the UK complements her developments expertise. Anuradha lives in Kolkata where she is actively involved in civil society and leads the Verulam Group's  links within West Bengal.

 
 
Suman Singh BA MA DipHRM
 
Suman Singh  

Suman Singh is a managing consultant for Verulam Consultants Private Ltd and represents the Verulam Group in India. She is a Human Resource professional with a social sciences background who has both consulting and corporate experience. Her project experience has focused on design, implementation and monitoring of international donor-assisted programs and projects. As an incumbent of different positions in Human Resource department of private companies, she has expertise in various facets of human resource management. Her key areas of expertise include urban development focusing on local government reform; organizational development; change management; capacity building through training and development; human resource management systems, techniques and strategy formulation; communication strategy development and process management.

 
 
Raghav Raj Regmi M.Com, MA (Development Management)
 
Raghav Raj Regmi  

Raghav is a senior associate consultant with the Verulam Group and is our representative in Nepal. He 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.

 
 
Themrise  Khan BES MSc
 
Themrise Khan  

Themrise khan has been a development professional for the last 12 years in Pakistan. A Masters Graduate in Development Management from the London School of Economics, She has Extensive Experience of working with community-based social development projects in rural and urban Pakistan and has worked for several local and international NGOs. She is currently based in Islamabad, where for the last four years has been occupied as a freelance development consultant. Her clients include the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, DFID, Canadian CIDA and several UN agencies such as UNICEF, UNDP and UNIFEM, among others. She specializes in program evaluation, policy research and development communications. Her Sectoral expertise lies in governance, gender and cross-cutting social sectors.

 
 
Motasin Billah M.Sc, MBA, CA (Part)
 
Motasin Billah  

Motasin Billah is Manager of Finance and Administration in Verulam Associates Bangladesh Ltd in the Dhaka office. Billah is a partly qualified of professional chartered accountants and has completed his articleship with ACNABIN Chartered Accountants before joining the Verulam Group to develop his management level competence and experience in the area of accounts, finance, administration and human resources. He is responsible for all finance and administrative function-maintaining the books of accounts, finance, taxation, corporate affairs and administrative systems - for Verulam Associates Bangladesh and provides financial support to the wider group. Billah completed his B.Sc (hons) & M.Sc in physics from Rajshahi University and has an MBA (Accounting and Information Systems) from Dhaka University. 

 
 
Indrajith (Jith) Wijesiriwardana BA MA MBA CA FCMA
 
Chris Vickery  

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.

 
 
 
Chris Vickery BSc MB ChB DRCOG DFFP MRCGP
 
Chris Vickery  

Chris Vickery trained in the UK where he worked in secondary and primary care before working in Nepal for five years as an adviser to rural mother and child health services. He has extensive consultancy experience, predominantly in South and South East Asia with a focus on health sector development, strategic health planning, client orientated health care; primary, neonatal and maternal health services in both urban and rural settings. He led the Verulam team in West Bengal that successfully supported the development of a sector wide health strategy for the State Government, and has also undertaken consultancy assignments for the Verulam Group in India, Pakistan, Cambodia, Yemen and Bangladesh. Chris is now a senior associate consultant for the health sector.

 
 
Dr Bina D'Costa BSS MSS MA PhD
 
Chris Vickery  

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.

 
 
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