Roger Ford is managing director and global lead for Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP), an impact-centric consultancy within Accenture, dedicated to helping international development organizations address the world’s social, economic and environmental challenges.
Roger leads a global team of strategy, consulting and technology professionals to deliver impact at scale - leveraging the innovation, technology, power, and scale of Accenture’s ecosystem to build and strengthen institutional capacity, digitally empower development programs, and deliver sustainable outcomes through partnerships at the nexus of civil society, the private sector and government. Under his leadership, ADP has expanded across the globe, delivering over 1,700 programs for 100+ international development organizations in 90 countries. Previously to this role, Roger served as managing director in Accenture’s Global Energy Practice, providing retail operating strategy and digital implementation services for the firm’s oil and gas clients.
As a new SID-W board member in 2018, Roger has actively participated in the development and enhancement of a broad spectrum of member programming including panel moderation and development; facilitating and hosting workshops; developing and judging member competitions; and supporting board member working groups. Most notably, Roger has focused on helping SID-W international development practitioners and institutional members to share best practices and embrace innovation, digital disruption, and leverage private sector thinking to create more effective and impactful development programs. As such, Roger led SID-W’s first “innovation series”, which included developing and moderating “Delivering Impact Beyond the Hype Panel”; hosted SID-W’s “Human Centered Design Thinking for Development Workshop” and led SID-W’s first annual “Innovation Showcase and Member Competition” at the Annual SID-W conference in 2019.
As reflected in his blogs below, Roger is excited about SID-W’s impact on the future of development and looks forward to working with the membership to continue to expand SID-W’s innovation programming to drive further collaboration and impact across our development community.
Digital in International Development: Delivering Impact Beyond the Hype
Creating international development programs with empathy using design thinking
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/designing-international-development-programs-empathy-roger-ford/
Innovation for development impact
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/innovation-heart-scaling-development-impact-roger-ford/