Introduction
Alastair is a Director within LRQA’s Advisory team. With over 20 years of experience across emerging and developing economies, Alastair brings a multi-disciplinary perspective that combines international labour standards, governance, labour market institutions and development economics. His work focuses on helping organisations navigate complex social and human rights challenges, including in relation to Just Transition strategies.
Biography
Alastair is a co-founder of Ergon Associates and joined LRQA when Ergon integrated the business. He has spent two decades advising public institutions with a development mandate, including development finance institutions, multilateral organisations, multi-stakeholder initiatives and development agencies. Alastair is an expert on jobs and development – from wages in low-income economies to employment-intensive investment – as well as gender in the workplace, rights in informal economies, living wages and responsible restructuring.
An experienced trainer and facilitator, Alastair works at the intersection of policy, strategy and implementation, supporting organisations to strengthen systems, understand social impact dynamics and deliver meaningful change.
Before co-founding Ergon, Alastair was Senior Researcher in the international department of Incomes Data Services (IDS), where he coordinated UK research for the global Wage Indicator programme led by the University of Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies.
