Bruce Byiers
- Political economy of development reforms
- Business facilitation
- Domestic resource mobilisation
- Regional integration processes
- Developing country export promotion
- Enterprise devleopment / private sector development
- Industrialisation policy
- Tax policy
Biography
Dr. Bruce Byiers is a development economist with a DPhil from the University of Sussex. Originally from Scotland, he heads the African Institutions and Regional Dynamics Programme of the Economic and Agricultural Transformation programme at ECDPM, where he has been working since May 2011.
While past work has focused a lot on strategies and policies for private sector development and engagement, his interests and responsibilities increasingly revolve around regional integration processes in Africa, particularly from a political economy perspective. This includes looking at regional organisations, but also at regional economic integration dynamics. Bruce has carried out policy research for ECDPM in many countries in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa.
Prior to ECDPM, Bruce worked as a consultant for UNIDO, USAID, World Bank and DANIDA, among others. The focus of his work was mainly on industrial policy, private sector development and tax policy, particularly in Mozambique, Rwanda and Lesotho.
Bruce also worked in the Mozambican Ministry of Planning and Development/Finance for five years, partly as an ODI Fellow and subsequently as a consultant and researcher in the Macro-economic Projections Unit of the National Budget Directorate, and the Directorate for Policy Studies and Analysis. As well as English, he is fluent in French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Responsibilities
- Member of the ECDPM management team
- To work on developing work programmes and analytical content relating to the above areas
- To help identify funding opportunities, develop funding proposals and, to effectively secure funds for assigned projects and/or policy facilitation activities
- To develop knowledge on key policy issues through assembling content, doing research and brokering knowledge
Pre-ECDPM assignments
- IBF International Consulting, Economic Development Sector Manager, Belgium
- Independent consultant, assignments for UNIDO, DfID, World Bank, World Bank, DANIDA, and AUSAID in Mozambique, Rwanda, and Lesotho
- Oxford Policy Management, consultant on Public Expenditure Management Reforms, Mozambique
- ODI Fellow, National Directorate of Planning and Finance, Mozambique
- Assistant researcher, Fernand Braudel Institute for the World Economy, Brazil
All
A political economy analysis of the Nacala and Beira corridors
African regional responses to COVID-19
Rewiring support to African continental and regional organisations
The African Continental Free Trade Area: From agreement to impact
The AfCFTA: From agreement to impact - Editorial
The EU and Africa: Should, would, could… might
The EU and Africa: Should, would, could… but how?
Démêler l’écheveau de l’économie politique des organisations régionales africaines
Publications
A political economy analysis of the Nacala and Beira corridors
African regional responses to COVID-19
Rewiring support to African continental and regional organisations
Démêler l’écheveau de l’économie politique des organisations régionales africaines
Démêler l’écheveau de l’économie politique des organisations régionales africaines
Elections in Africa – Playing the game or bending the rules?
The political economy of Africa’s regional ‘spaghetti bowl’ – Synthesis report
Youth unemployment and the role of regional organisations
Blog
The EU and Africa: Should, would, could… might
The EU and Africa: Should, would, could… but how?
The African Continental Free Trade Area and the politics of industrialisation
Making sense of regional integration in Africa
Sustainable livestock value chains in West Africa: Can regional organisations rise to the challenges?
What has thinking and working politically ever done for us?
Industrialising Africa one nut at a time
Morocco’s accession to ECOWAS: Building bridges or rocking the boat?
GREAT Insights Magazine
The African Continental Free Trade Area: From agreement to impact
The AfCFTA: From agreement to impact - Editorial
International support for economic reform in Tunisia: can it work with the grain?
Make regional integration in Africa work… better
Regional economic integration in the Horn of Africa: Wishful thinking or a basis for peace?
Corridors as industrial policy? Linking people, policies and places
Fostering More and Better Jobs
Thematic Focus: Fostering More and Better Jobs
Multimedia
Bruce Byiers
Head of African Institutions and Regional Dynamics Programme
Nationality
Scottish, British
Languages
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Location
Maastricht office
Onze Lieve Vrouweplein 21
6211 HE Maastricht