ABOUT

The Budget Strengthening Initiative is hosted by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Britain’s leading think tank on international development, and a leader in research on public finance management in developing and fragile states. 

BSI was established in May 2010 and is funded until March 2015.

WHO WE ARE

Directors

Marcus Manuel
Director

Simon Gill
Deputy Director

Support Team

Myra Bernardi
Project Manager

Cinzia Cimmino
Project Officer

Julian Tung
Project Officer

Emma Myers
PA to Director/ Project Administrator

South Sudan 

Tim Williamson
Country Programme Manager – South Sudan & Uganda

Alastair McKechnie
Senior Research Associate

Catherine Dom
Senior Advisor – Local Services Support

Brian D’Silva
Senior Advisor – Aid Policy

Steven Symansky
Senior Advisor – PFM Reform

Heidi Tavakoli
Research Fellow

Rebecca Simson
Research Officer

Ben French  
Advisor - Office of the Presidential Advisor for Economic Affairs

Tom Hart
Advisor – Local PFM, Planning and Budgeting

Sheila Kigozi
Advisor – PFM Reform

Samuel Moon
Advisor – Planning, Budgeting and Aid Policy

Robert Muwanga
Advisor – PFM Reform and Peer Learning

Emmanuel Ssewankambo 
Advisor - Local Services Support

Monica Musiime
Administrator – South Sudan and Uganda Programme

Liberia

Tove Strauss 
Country Programme Manager – Liberia

Alastair McKechnie
Senior Research Associate

Richard Allen
Senior Research Associate

Andrew King
Senior Advisor – Macro-economic Policy

Jeremy Clarke
Research Associate

Imran Aziz
Advisor - Budget

Dan Honig
Advisor – Aid Policy

Arthur Mugweri
Advisor

Natasha Sharma
Advisor - Budget

DRC      

Brian Ames
Country Director – DRC

Catherine Dom
Senior Advisor – Local Services Support

Andrew Rogerson
Senior Research Associate

Ian Lienert
Senior Advisor

Maia King
Research Officer 

Stephane Muninda
Advisor – Decentralisation and PFM

Uganda

Tim Williamson
Country Programme Manager – South Sudan & Uganda

Gerald Twijukye
Coordinator – Uganda Programme

Tom Hart
Advisor – Local PFM, Planning and Budgeting

Samuel Moon
Advisor – Planning, Budgeting and Aid Policy

Monica Musiime
Administrator – South Sudan and Uganda Programme

The g7+            

Claire Leigh
Head of International Partnerships

Alastair McKechnie
Senior Research Associate

Helen Tilley
Research Fellow

Lisa Denney
Research Officer

Maia King
Research Officer

Rebecca Simson
Research Officer

Mafalda Marchioro
Project Officer (seconded to the g7+ secretariat)

Research & Dissemination

Philipp Krause
Head of Research

Ed Hedger
Head of ODI's Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure

Rebecca Simson
Research Officer

Maia King
Research Officer

Erin Coppin
Advisor - Research

Ryan Flynn
Communications Officer