Andrew Russell

Background

About Andrew Russell

Senior level international development professional with 35 years of experience working in and with fragile, conflict-affected, and transitional societies on conflict risk assessment, crisis prevention, peacebuilding, strategic organizational design and change management, civil society development and policy reform. • Exceptional knowledge of innovative and risk-informed policy and programme development and implementation. • In-depth experience at the highest levels leading and facilitating organizational learning and change processes at the United Nations and other international institutions, innovating to create more robust systems and foster greater impact at Headquarters and on the ground. • Skilled at results-based strategic planning, programme design, evaluation, and impact measurement, having contributed to or overseen dozens of corporate, regional and country level evaluations and assessments of programmatic and operational activities of the UN over three decades. • Managed diverse teams of up to 200 and total budgets more than USD 500 million. • Established and accelerated strategic and financial partnerships with a wide range of international organizations, including the World Bank, USAID, and the European Union. • Early advocate for and adopter of innovation methodologies at the UN Development Programme (UNDP), contributing to establishment of the policy framework and service delivery models underpinning UNDP’s current global innovation network. • Extensive experience as a lecturer in development and peacebuilding studies at undergraduate and graduate levels, developing and delivering dozens of learning modules and curricula in a variety of contexts, including at Queen’s University, Haverford College, Columbia University, University of York, University of Cambridge, Oxford Brookes University, and the Open University of Catalonia.