Making It To The Top: Tips For Development Practitioners Pursuing International Leadership Roles

This brief highlights three evidenced based strategies for emerging leaders in international development interested in pursuing international leadership roles. It summarizes our recent study on the career catalysts that supported the career transition of national staff into international leadership roles on Market Systems Development (MSD) programs. It is intended for emerging leaders and the implementing […]

Where Have All The Female Team Leaders Gone?

This report features insights from an industry survey into gendered differences in the recruitment and retention of Team Leaders (TL) and Chief of Party (CoPs) in market systems (MSD) and private sector development (PSD) programs.

Andrew Panton

Senior Consultant

I am committed to improving human livelihoods and resilience in balance with nature. At the Canopy Lab, I provide research and advisory support to projects working on biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and resilience, nature-based solutions, sustainable tourism, and market systems development. Outside work, I’m a keen guitarist, cyclist and bookworm, with a love for food, travelling and learning languages.

JESSICA RUST-SMITH

Senior Consultant

I work across markets, business and supply chains, impact investing, agriculture, and women’s economic empowerment. I am an experienced monitoring, evaluation, research and learning consultant and project manager with expertise in the use of mixed methods, theory-based approaches and data collection and analysis. I have been working in M&E for market systems development for 10 years now, and going strong.