Rob has 40 years of international urban/regional planning and human settlements consulting experience. He has designed, managed, contributed to or monitored development projects including urban and regional planning; rapid assessment and strategic planning; environmental, climate change adaptation and risk management planning; infrastructure planning; community development; housing policy, market analysis and finance; stakeholder participation processes; institutional capacity building; and safeguard assessments of social, poverty, gender and indigenous peoples. Rob has worked in over 40 countries in Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean for international development agencies including the Asia Development Bank, European Union, World Bank, Caribbean Development Bank, African Development Bank, UNDP, bi-lateral agencies, local governments and the private sector. Rob has experience working with diverse groups of stakeholders to undertake rapid assessments, develop integrated strategic investment plans, and preparing development agency project/program designs and related documentation. Rob has extensive experience Team Leading multi-disciplinary teams in complex cross-cultural situations with a wide range of development challenges. Rob brings to every project an awareness of the integrated, multi-sectoral nature of urban and regional development, and the need to fully understand the local context through extensive stakeholder participation ensuring that proposed investments are locally appropriate, implementable, sustainable, resilient and affordable.