Gerry Adlard

Gerry Adlard was born in England and raised and educated in pre-independent Zimbabwe. He has engaged in a variety of collaborative development initiatives in South Africa, most of which have addressed the housing needs of the poor.

Gerry has consulted to provincial and local government, private sector organisations and associations, the United Nations Development Programme in Southern Sudan, the World Bank Institute and movements affiliated to Slum Dwellers International.

For him development is as much an art as a science and in addition to his original social science degree he holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Urban Infrastructure Design and Management from the University of Cape Town.

His latest focus is on the more general application of cross-sector collaborations to address social and environmental problems within rapidly changing societies and, in particular, the training of collaboration ‘Enablers’.

He and his wife Gill have three married sons and six granddaughters.