Experience.

A minister has eighteen months left in office and a reform that will take years to deliver. The international partners are prepared to finance it, but the administration has learned to outlast ministers and their priorities. What can realistically be accomplished before the next election, and what would give a successor a reason to carry it forward? Or take two ministries that have been fighting over the same mandate for years. How do you get them to work together?

Chahine Hamila has spent his career helping governments conceive and implement national programmes and the systems through which they operate. His international work extends across roughly a hundred countries and most functions of public administration. It has involved the institutional choices made before technology exists and the realities of putting it to work at national scale.

He is now building an international organization of top-tier specialists drawn from some of the world's most selective institutions.