Julian Peach
An experienced private sector, rural development and agricultural finance expert with almost thirty years of management and technical experience helping businesses in Africa and Asia to grow together with smallholder supply and distribution chains.
Experience with most smallholder agricultural input and output and service markets. Particular skills in facilitating and brokering the way for businesses to achieve transformative, sustainable success at scale and market systems development.
Reputation for strong business skills, strategy formulation for BoP, and partnership brokering. Recently worked at World Economic Forum’s Grow Asia in Singapore advising companies on their transition to inclusive business and multi-stakeholder partnerships.
Contributions
Blogs
- Brokering partnerships – the key to successful facilitation of market system change [2023]
- A review of 'A rough guide to the MSD approach for youth employment in sub-Saharan Africa' [2022]
- Does scale matter? [2020]
- Market systems approach – all about business, really? [2020]
Resources
- Getting to scale [2016]