Dr Ian Goldman
Bsc Soil Science (UK), Msc Tropical Agricultural Development (UK), Dip. Systems Analysis and Design (UK) Cert Managing Voluntary and Non-Profit Enterprises (UK) Cert. Project Management (UK), PHD Public and Development Management (Wits, SA).
Dr Ian Goldman has an extensive experience in the management of rural change. He worked in over 16 countries, and works in three international languages. He has worked with NGOs, local government, national and provincial government and a wide variety of donors. He spent five years in Zambia on a pioneering district development programme, 7 years with a rural economic development NGO in the UK. In 1995 he returned to SA where he spent 3 years as a management advisor for the Free State MEC for Agriculture on the transformation of of the Free State rural sector. In 1998 Ian was one of the founders and then CEO of Khanya-African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), which has pioneered work on sustainable livelihoods approaches and community-driven development across Eastern and Southern Africa. In late 2009 Ian left Khanya-aicdd to start working with the Presidency, on a project to support evidence-based pro-poor policy-making, and in January 2011 was appointed at DDG-level in the Department of Performance M&E in the Presidency. Here his work has particularly been acting as the rural outcomes facilitator for 3 months, and later on developing key performance M&E systems, donor coordination and supporting learning processes, internally and externally. Ian joined as a Mvula Trustee in 2005.