Greg Power has been involved in political and parliamentary reform since the mid-1990s. He co-founded GPG in 2005 to deliver projects in these fields, and has since worked extensively across the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America.
He provides direct support to politicians and ministers in such countries, developing strategies and helping to implement reform, and has provided advice to a variety of government ministries, international organisations and donor agencies on these themes. He is an expert in political economy analysis and writes widely on behavioural approaches to politics and managing the process of change.
He was previously a special adviser to British ministers Rt Hon Robin Cook MP and Rt Hon Peter Hain MP, working on strategies for parliamentary reform, constitutional change and the wider democratic agenda in conjunction with the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit and Downing Street policy staff.
He was awarded an OBE for services to parliamentary democracy and political reform in the January 2023 New Year’s Honours.
His book Inside the Political Mind: The human side of politics, and how its shapes development, was published in 2024, and is available now.
Blogs
- The future of working politically in the new FCDO
- The challenges of political transition in Sudan
- Can analogue politics work in an era of digital scrutiny?
- What international development can learn from adaptive management
- The puzzle of parliamentary assistance
- The politics of parliamentary strengthening
Publications
- The logframe and the beautiful game
- KAPE: All about behaviour
- Integrating Politics into the Project Cycle
- Working with parliaments and political parties for sustainable development
- The difficult development of parliamentary politics in the Gulf
- Political parties in democratic transitions
- Global parliamentary report
- The politics of parliamentary strengthening
- Handbook on parliamentary ethics
- The challenges of political programming