Mr. Andrew Lawson Fiscus Ltd.

Since August 2007, Mr. Lawson has set up his own consulting, research and training company - Fiscus Limited, which specializes in public finance issues and the management of budget support. Contact addresses are now andrew.lawson@fiscus.org.uk and fiscus@fiscus.org.uk.

In the past, Andrew has been the head of the Centre for Aid & Public Expenditure (CAPE) at the Overseas Development Institute. He is a public finance specialist with extensive experience of the design, management & evaluation of budgetary aid.

With David Booth, he was responsible for the design of the evaluation framework for General Budget Support, which has been adopted by the OECD-DAC and also led the first comprehensive evaluation of the impact of GBS, examining the experience of Tanzania over 1995 - 2004.