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Oliver is a tourism industry expert with over 35 years experience in the public and private sectors. He has worked in more than 75 countries worldwide and project managed multi-million dollar contracts. His expertise covers tourism development strategies, tourism marketing, economic and environmental impact analyses, institutional capacity building and tourism research and statistics. He has worked on projects funded by the African and Asian Development Banks, DFID, EBRD, European Union, UNDP, UNWTO, USAID and the World Bank. His tourism development planning work encompasses Botswana, Curacao, Fiji, Mauritius, Nepal, St Lucia and The Gambia. His assignments for tourism organizations cover Britain, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta and Southern Africa. Oliver’s work on SME development and community-based tourism includes leadership of the DFID Sustainable Tourism and Poverty Elimination study in 1999. He was chosen by DFID to manage the Tourism Challenge Fund and to monitor the Rural Tourism and Poverty Alleviation Program in Nepal which is at the leading edge of using tourism as a tool to enhance rural livelihoods. Oliver has an MA in Geography from the University of Cambridge, a Masters degree in Urban, Regional and Transport Planning, from the University of Liverpool and an MA in Economics from the University of Leeds, UK. | 