Dr. Andy Tamas is a governance and organizational change specialist with a focus on national and sub-national institutional analysis, policy implementation and reform in fragile and conflict-affected states, design and evaluation of development initiatives, peacebuilding, civilian-military collaboration, anti-corruption programming, contextually-appropriate institutional design, human resource management, intercultural team building and communication, valuing diversity and gender equality, community development and participatory strategic planning in low-predictability environments. He has worked on public sector reform and governance initiatives in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere, including evaluations of multiple USAID projects, team leader of a functional and structural analysis of Afghanistan’s Independent Directorate of Local Governance for UNDP, and an analysis of public institutions for Swedish SIDA’s future programming in the country. He has experience in the Middle East (Iraq, Egypt, Qatar, Yemen, Libya), Afghanistan, Africa, South America, Asia, Haiti, Ghana, the Canadian north and Alaska. His education includes Bachelors in Integrated Studies (Waterloo) and Social Work (Regina), a Masters in Continuing Education (Saskatchewan), and a Doctorate in Governance with University College Dublin in 2018. His dissertation title: Contextually-Appropriate Institutional Development in Fragile States: Lessons from Policy Implementation in Afghanistan.