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.
Gavin McGillivray of the UK’s Department For International Development gives Gates Cambridge Distinguished Lecture
- May 3, 2012
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