Graeme Ramshaw is Director of Quality and Innovation at Westminster Foundation for Democracy. He is a programme quality, research and evaluation leader, with over 15 years of experience working in international development. He has extensive expertise in the fields of programme monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), democratic governance and accountability, fragile and conflict affected states, social development, and aid effectiveness through varied work with public and private sector organisations such as FCDO, the World Bank, KPMG Development Advisory Services, the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., and the Institute for Democracy in South Africa in Pretoria.  His work has featured in the Journal of Democracy, opendemocracy.com, The Economist, and numerous academic and professional conferences.