Ramesh Singh
Mr. Singh worked with ActionAid for over 20 years, initially in The Gambia, then as Country Director in Ethiopia, Nepal - where he was born - and Vietnam, as Asia Regional Director in Bangkok, as Operations Director in London, and most recently as ActionAid International’s Chief Executive for several years.
Much of his life has been spent working first hand with development issues in Asia and Africa. He was trained as an agronomist-seed technologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK and came to ActionAid with a depth of experience in agricultural research. He then led ActionAid’s process of internationalization and the delivery of the organisation’s strategic objectives of Rights to End Poverty.