Ray Powell

About

Worked in international development for 36 years in a number of different economic sectors, but principally education and training reform - policy, planning and impact evaluation Specialties: Undertaking specialist work in the following fields - Vocational education and training -planning, policy, financing and governance; workforce development; Project management and coordination.

Experience

• Vocational Training Specialist at AECOM China
  Dec 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 7 mos

  Leading a PPTA for the ADB in Nanning, Guangxi Autonomous Region, PRC

• Owner at Powell & Alexander Consulting
  Nov 2011 - Present · 14 yrs 8 mos

• Senior Researcher at International Labour Organisation, Bangkok Office
  Aug 2016 - Nov 2016 · 4 mos

  Undertaking research on competency-based training and assessment

• Team Leader/Senior Adviser at GOPA Germany
  Jan 2013 - Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  Team Leader/Senior Adviser of GIZ Sustainable Economic Development through Technical and Vocational Education and Training (SED-TVET Project) Component 4 - Industry Qualifications

• Lead Researcher at Australian Council for Educational Research
  Jun 2012 - Nov 2012 · 6 mos

  Intermittently undertaking research into the financing of TVET in the Pacific (April to November 2012) - with a focus on Vanuatu, under an AusAID funded project