RTPI International Committee
15-Feb-12
The RTPI International Committee links all areas of Institute activity to planning outside the British Isles. It guides and shapes the Institute’s relations with planning organisations in other countries as well as international planning organisations, and it develops and strengthens the Institute’s international links and reputation. Click here for its Terms of Reference.
In 2009 the Committee advised on international aspects of the Institute's Corporate Plan, resulting in a detailed paper setting out goals in advocacy, capacity-building and networking, identifying ways for the Institute to contribute to policy work on sustainable development whether in the UK (e.g. with DfID), regionally (CAP, ECTP-CEU) and internationally (GPN, UN-HABITAT, Habitat Professionals Forum, IFHP, ISoCaRP and INTA). Click here to read the paper - including a table explaining those sets of initials.
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Meet the International Committee ....
Chairman: Richard Summers
Deputy Chair: Janet O'Neill
Members:
Samer Bagaeen
Philip Booth
Diana Fitzsimons
Gareth Giles
Clive Harridge
Karen Montgomerie
Christabel Myers
Chris Poulton
Ann Skippers
Jo Talbot
Ron Tate
Richard Williamson
The Secretary of the Committee is Judith Eversley, RTPI International Affairs Officer E-mail
- Author:
- Judith Eversley
- Publisher:
- The Royal Town Planning Institute
- Date:
- 15-Feb-12
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Apart from one member based in the Netherlands, there appear to be no members based internationally and especially from the developing world.
For example, I am currently based in Addis Ababa, spent the last 8 years in NY with the UN, and have had wide-ranging resident experience in Tanzania and Malawi. My books (and various journal papers) attest to the range of experience.
1. Achieving Results: Performance Budgeting in the Least Developed Countries. United Nations Capital Development Fund, New York (2006), 234 pp. Initiator, editor and main contributor. http://www.uncdf.org/english/local_development/documents_and_reports/thematic_papers/pbb/index.php
2. City Management in Developing Countries – an Institutional Development Perspective. BookSurge (Feb, 2007); first published as Institutional development: a Third World city management perspective. St Martin's Press, New York, NY (Jan, 1997) and Macmillan Press, Basingstoke (Nov, 1996), 310 pp. Sole author.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/103-1657137-9313404?url=search alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=ronald.mcgill&Go.x=12&Go.y=8
While I am not part of the inner circle of RTPI activists, now, I would certainly enjoy the opportunity to become involved in the committee. HOW DO I DO SO?
Thanks,
Ron McGill, BSc, MBA, PhD, MRTPI.
Judith Eversley replied direct to Dr McGill, appreciative of the work of members of the RTPI International Development Network (like him). They can and do influence the Institute's public statements on international development. The work such members do is regularly featured in our monthly bulletin of international news. The International Committee is actively seeking ways to integrate the insights of members working in developing countries.