Gavin was previously head of DFID’s Global Funds & Development Finance Institutions Department and International Financial Institutions Department. Prior to joining DFID in 2000, McGillivray managed long-term agricultural development programmes in Bolivia, Honduras, Colombia and the Caribbean. In the middle of these assignments, he spent eight years in London with an international corporate finance house, Campbell Lutyens & Co Ltd, of which he was an Executive Director.
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Scholar to command NASA space mission
Gates Cambridge Scholar Kayla Barron [2010] will serve as spacecraft commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-14 mission to the International Space Station which will launch no earlier than spring 2027. The […]
Aerial maps reveal successful woodland expansion in Scotland
A University of Cambridge team, co-led by Gates Cambridge Scholar Aland Chan, has used aerial surveys across a huge swathe of the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland to create detailed […]
Gates Cambridge Originals: Martin Kaonga
Martin Kaonga [2001] has two PhDs, one in Carbon Biogeochemistry at the University of Cambridge and the other in Christian Apologetics at NTS Indiana which explored the interactions between science […]
Gates Cambridge Originals: Riikka Hofmann
Education always matters, says Riikka Hofmann, Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Cambridge. “And because it matters so much it is always a contested area. But I […]
