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Sefton Darby

Principal and founder of S•E•B. Strategy Limited.
Graduate of University of Otago (New Zealand) and University of St. Andrews (Scotland).
Career Profile: UK Cabinet Office - London; UK Department for International Development (DFID) – London; World Bank – Washington, DC. Independent consultant to companies and organisations throughout the world. See Our Clients
Specialist in public sector reform. Acknowledged expert on issues relating to improving transparency and accountability in resource-rich developing countries.
Director on the board of the New Zealand chapter of the anti-corruption organisation Transparency International.
Sefton Darby has been closely involved in the emergence of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), initially helping to develop EITI policy for DFID in the UK, and then working with the World Bank to support EITI programmes in a significant number of countries in West Africa, the former Soviet Union, and Asia.

Associate consultant working with S.E.B. Strategy Ltd on two projects in Nigeria - working with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to support oil sector transparency at the national level, and working with the Revenue Watch Institute and the Government of Bayelsa State to design a state-level expenditure and income transparency initiative.
Currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. Graduate of the Legon Centre for International Affairs at the University of Ghana, and Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Career profile: consulting experience with DFID, the World Bank, and USAID. Programme of African Studies at Northwestern University (Illinois), National Endowment for Democracy (Washington DC).
Specialist in the political economy of reform in resource rich countries.