Who We Are
Program Management Team
Chris Wheeler
Chris Wheeler (AusAID) is the Director of The Developmental Leadership Program (DLP).
Dr Adrian Leftwich
Adrian Leftwich (Department of Politics, University of York, United Kingdom) is DLP's Director of Research.
If you wish to contact any member of the DLP team please email us.
Steering Committee
Chair: Alan Morris
Alan Morris has wide experience at senior levels of the Public sector, at State, Commonwealth and International levels. He was formerly an Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and has been Chairman of the Commonwealth Grants Commission of Australia for 11 years. He is also involved in a number of advisory roles in the areas of economic, financial and public sector reform.
Dr William Cole
William Stadden Cole is Senior Director of The Asia Foundation's Governance, Law, and Civil Society Programs where he is responsible for directing four broad thematic sectors: Governance Reform; Law and Justice; Elections and Political Process; and Security and Development. Dr Cole concurrently serves as Senior Director for Program Strategy and Development. Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Cole served under an appointment to USAID in the Bureau for the Near East, where he established the Governance and Democracy Program immediately following the first Gulf War, and in the Bureau for Europe and the former Soviet Union, where he established a political economy strategic planning unit.
Cameron Cowan
For the past three years Cameron Cowan has worked as an Institutional Strengthening Advisor in the Strategy, Evaluation and Advisory Group for the New Zealand Government's aid and development program (NZAID). Mr Cowan's work involves ensuring best practice around governance and capacity development for NZAID's programs with partner countries as well as on corporate projects.
John Davidson
John Davidson is the Head of the Office of Development Effectiveness, an independent unit within the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). His principal areas of interest include: governance and public sector reform-related activities; politics of development; leadership; service delivery in decentralised governance systems; and team management.
Pascal Fabie
Pascal Fabie is the Regional Director of Transparency International - Asia Pacific (TI-APD), based in Berlin, a position he has held since May 2006. Mr Fabie also represents TI on the Advisory Group of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific.
Dr Ulrich Müller
Ulrich Müller is Senior Policy Adviser in the Asia/Pacific and Latin America/Caribbean Department in German Technical Cooperation, GTZ. He is editor of the book "Ownership and Political Steering in Developing Countries", which presents the proceedings of two international conferences held in London and Berlin in 2009.
Chris Roche
Chris Roche is Director of Development Effectiveness at Oxfam Australia and an adjunct Associate Professor at the Institute for Human Security at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Chris is author of the book "impact assessment for Development Agencies" and has recently completed a research project for the Australian International NGO umbrella body ACFID entitled "Promoting Voice and Choice: Exploring Innovations in Australian NGO Accountability for Development Effectiveness" which had a particular focus on how Australian NGOs were attempting to become more accountable to the people they seek to benefit.
The Developmental Leadership Program (DLP) Steering Committee ensures overall quality and guides the direction of the Program. It also has a key role in reviewing and approving the financial reporting (including annual independent audits) from the Multi-Donor Fund Manager.
