Marcus Manuel
Marcus Manuel is the Senior Strategic Adviser to the Budget Strengthening Initiative (BSI) and Senior Reseach Associate for CAPE.
Marcus Manuel's former ODI's roles include Director of Budget Strengthening Initiative (BSI) and Head of CAPE.
Prior to joining ODI Marcus held a number of roles within the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). These included Director Pan Africa Strategy and Programmes, one of the three directors responsible for managing DFID’s programmes in Africa with focus on Africa wide strategies; issues and institutions, including trade; conflict and humanitarian issues and relations with multilateral and bilateral partners. Other roles were Deputy Director, West Africa (2004–06) and Deputy Director, Asia (2003-04).
Before working at DFID, Marcus worked for Gordon Brown as head of the newly created department in HM Treasury responsible for advice on all aspects of international development (including debt policy; creation of the International Financing Facility) (2001-02).
Between 1996-2000, Marcus was seconded from HMTreasury to work as the Senior Adviser in the Ministry of Finance, Uganda. Prior to this he worked as macroeconomic adviser in Treasury and as analyst in British Petroleum.
Media Coverage
Marcus Manuel has in-depth knowledge of issues relating to Africa and he is available to comment, in particular, on fragile states as well as aid financing and budgeting. He has been interviewed by, for example, the Guardian.
Latest tweets from @marcus_manuel
23 Apr@retepelyod thanks for flagging your earlier Huffington piece and the helpful background on FRY- 20 AprFragility Commission report is spot on: engagement in fragile states needs real and radical change. Making it happe… https://t.co/VnIRLXUeuS
- 21 MarThe #IMF is still absent from #fragilestates like #Afghanistan #Iraq #Somalia #SouthSudan where it is clearly neede… https://t.co/fzaf6skQ2F
- 16 Feb@geoffreygertz congratulations on excellent SOTC report. I am trying to send you email about it but can't guess you… https://t.co/Dv4KYLtq8K
- 13 Oct#IMF #fragilestates #somalia #afghanistan why is IMF absent in most fragile states? https://t.co/yOu1Z3N1bv
- 09 Oct@AnnaGapminder @OlaRosling @MaxCRoser @angieskazka @arthur_camara Great to see the data so well presented & argument made so powerfully!
- 08 Aug@robinrinaldo @HansRosling Solution is to change how you give the aid. Not giving just hurts the poor http://t.co/ChC6L8cNr9
- 20 Oct
- 20 Oct@Laurie_Garrett @devisridhar if you want to know more why I used peacekeeping as budget key do email m.manuel@odi.org
- 20 Oct@Laurie_Garrett @kwatkinsodi @ODI_development @devisridhar thanks. Fyi I used OCHA FTS as they update daily but only with $ numbers
- 20 Oct
- 18 Oct@nmdammann @kwatkinsodi @raulpacheco @ODI_development chart uses committed plus pledges. See OCHA fts for details
- 17 Oct@owenbarder see OCHA for what is being paid (need to add funding and pledges) http://t.co/3naRyojJF0
- 17 Oct@owenbarder See http://t.co/7r4KnonKlV for percentage shares for what countries should be paying .
- 17 Oct@SolheimDAC FYI this is result of using UN peacekeeping budget shares for Ebola $1 bn fund http://t.co/Hk6CFJaqF9
- 17 Oct@owenbarder see what happens if use UN peacekeeping budget key to fund Ebola http://t.co/lv26WJO1A3
- 17 Oct#Ebolaresponse If UN Ebola fund were a UN peacekeeping mission Italy would be paying 20x more and France 10x. http://t.co/ml75isdmkf
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