Principals

Murray Doehler, C.A., P.Eng., President, GAIA, has over 25 years experience in the ICT field. He was the Partner-in-Charge/Director of the five-year $10 million CIDA-funded Vietnam-Canada Information Technology (VCIT) project. He is presently a consultant on the EMIN (Bangladesh), and Thailand ICT development projects. He has been the project manager on several public/private partnership initiatives, including ones for Information Technology. He has been a partner in a major public accounting firm and an executive of a software development company. He has served on several IT/Information Highway advisory groups and task forces in Canada.

Dr. Gaylen Duncan, Chairman and Principal, GAIA, has over thirty years experience in the information technology industry presently serving as President of the Information Technology Association of Canada. He has been filling the lead role on the Vietnam-Canada Information Technology Project as the strategic thrust manager for institutional strengthening and advising on the government's future ICT plans. He has also worked in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Patricia Glenn, CMC, Director and Principal, GAIA, has over twenty years consulting experience and was a consultant on the Vietnam-Canada Information Technology Project in IP and standards. She has worked with international organizations in developing partnerships with Canadian companies for research and trade. She was the project leader on the World Bank project to assist the Government of Indonesia develop its IT strategy. She has been extensively involved in establishing global IT professional standards making presentations throughout the world and entering into discussions with the ISO and WTO.

Katherine Peart, MPA, Director and Principal, GAIA, has over seventeen years experience in communications regulatory strategy and policy, including competition, interconnection, high-speed networks, broadband access and the effective use of technology in education. She has held senior management positions in both the public and private sectors, most recently as the Director of Regulatory for a new entrant in the local telephony market. Ms. Peart was a strategic thrust manager on the Vietnam-Canada Information Technology project, the project leader for the Philippines Information Policy Project, and a consultant for the World Bank inception mission for the Indonesian National High-speed Network project. She has also provided consulting advice to the Governments of Nova Scotia and Canada and several private companies on business opportunities, regulatory and privatization matters.

Warren Wong, Vice President, GAIA, has over 20 years international development experience and for the last ten years has been managing multi-year, multi-disciplinary and multi-million dollar international development projects. He is currently the Project Director of the Thailand Rural Telecentre project; Project Director, of the World Bank funded Technical Assistance and Training Program (TATP) on ICT for SMEs; and an ICT advisor to the USAID funded Global Technology Network project in Indonesia. Mr. Wong was formerly the Deputy Director and Field Manager (1998), of the CIDA-funded Vietnam-Canada Information Technology (VCIT) Project; the Data/Systems Analyst on a five-year ADB project to develop a social impact monitoring system in Papua New Guinea; Partner-in-Charge of a Telecommunications Policy and Regulatory Framework project in Mongolia; Project Director of a three-year monitoring and evaluation information system for CIDA; and was a Science, Technology and Energy Policy Program Officer with Canada's International Development Research Centre.

David Barr, P.Eng., Senior Associate, GAIA, with over 40 years experience, is arguably one of Canada's leading rural telecommunications engineers. Since 1990, he has consulted in telecommunications for the rural and remote areas of developing countries, specifically focussed on the development of national policy, regulatory, financing and operational arrangements which encourage and support the provision and continuity of telecommunication services in rural areas. Mr. Barr led the work in Study Group 2 of the International Telecommunication Union Development Sector (ITU-D) in the 1994 to 1998 study period. He recently completed a consultancy for the Telecom Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka to analyze the existing situation and arrangements, and develop conclusions and recommendations to promote an aggressive, sustainable Rural Telecom Program throughout the country. He is currently the technical team leader on the Thailand Rural Telecentre Project.

Garth Graham, Senior Associate, GAIA, has eighteen years experience as a consultant, with an emphasis on community networking and information management planning. Mr. Graham was the project director of the Vietnam-Canada Information Technology project based in Hanoi for two years. Before that he was the regional program officer for information sciences for six years based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has also had solid executive experience as a deputy minister in the government.

Margaret McDonald, Senior Associate, GAIA, has over ten years experience in Asia. She was the Field Manager (1995-96) and Gender Specialist (1996-2001) of the Vietnam-Canada Information Technology (VCIT) Project, and is the author of "Vietnamese Women and the Computer Industry". She has worked on a World Bank project in Barbados to computerize the labour market information system and a computerized job placement system, and a CIDA project in Zimbabwe to develop and implement a computerized database information and reporting system.

Barry Reed, Senior Associate, GAIA, has over 25 years experience in the telecommunications policy and regulatory field. He recently completed a World Bank financed telecommunications regulatory framework project in Bangladesh. Mr. Reed has diversified national and international experience in regulation, consulting, planning and teaching in both the private and public sectors. Exceptional analytical, conceptual and communication skills. Skilled and knowledgeable in major PC applications and Internet use. Team leader, consensus-builder and innovative problem-solver. Versed in regulatory policy and all telecom regulatory tools: costing, capital management, quality of service, standards and rate-setting. Developed new telecom regulatory frameworks emphasizing effective competition (Bangladesh, Canada, Fiji). Project planning and management development in Africa. Evaluated a variety of government programs. Telecom network design for North American and offshore operations. Over twelve years managing consulting and regulatory advisory groups. Skilled and comfortable dealing with people at all organizational levels. Has up-to-date knowledge of telecom technology and trends.