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Petter Matthews
CoST
Executive Director
Description
Petter Matthews is and international development and built environment specialist with more than 40 years’ experience. He is currently the Executive Director of CoST, the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative and Executive Director of Engineers Against Poverty, an independent NGO working to improve infrastructure policy and practice. He has worked in government, industry and civil society and has experience in more than 20 countries. From 1993 to 1998 he supported the South African Mass Democratic Movement in relation to post-apartheid land and housing policy and from 1994, led some of the first urban upgrades of the Government of National Unity. In 2019 and 2020 he was the International Chair of the Civil20 Infrastructure Working Group. In 2020 Petter was awarded an MBE for his services to engineering and international development.
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