23 - 29 June 2025 - Broad Chalke, Salisbury
Greg Mills is the Director of the Brenthurst Foundation. He has directed numerous reform projects with African heads of government, including Rwanda (2007-8), Mozambique (2005-11), Swaziland (2010-11), Malawi (2012-14, and again 2020/21), Kenya (2012 and 2020), Lesotho (2008; 2019-20), Liberia (2006/7), Zambia (2010; 2016), Zimbabwe (2009-13), Ghana (2017), Ethiopia (2019-20), Nigeria (2017-18), and almost continuously at various levels of government in South Africa from the Foundation’s outset. He also sat on the Danish Africa Commission and on the African Development Bank’s high-level panel on fragile states. He served four deployments to Afghanistan with the British Army as the adviser to the commander. He has also worked extensively in Colombia, and with a variety of African governments in both improving the conditions for peacebuilding and investment, including the Zambezi Protocol on the natural resource sector. Mills is the author of numerous books – his latest include Expensive Poverty: Why Aid Fails and How It Can Work; The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan and Rich State, Poor State: Why Some Countries Succeed and Others Fail.
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