Gregory John Barrington Mills

Dr Greg Mills, Brenthurst Foundation, South Africa

Greg Mills is the Director of the Brenthurst Foundation. He has directed numerous reform projects with African heads of government, including Rwanda (2007-8), Mozambique (2005-11), Swaziland (2010-11), Malawi (2012-14, and again 2020/1), Kenya (2012 and 2020), Lesotho (2008

2019-20), Liberia (2006/7), Zambia (2010

2016), Zimbabwe (2009-13), Ghana (2017), Ethiopia (2019-20), Nigeria (2017-18), and almost continuously at various levels of government in South Africa from the Foundation’s outset. He also sat on the Danish Africa Commission and on the African Development Bank’s high-level panel on fragile states and served four deployments to Afghanistan with the British Army as the adviser to the commander. He has also worked extensively in Colombia, and with a variety of African governments in both improving the conditions for peacebuilding and investment, including the Zambezi Protocol on the natural resource sector. Mills is the author of numerous books – his latest include Expensive Poverty: Why Aid Fails and How It Can Work

The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan and Rich State, Poor State: Why Some Countries Succeed and Others Fail.