Rosalind Coleman is an international development policy analyst and governance specialist whose career is based on in-depth experience in Canada and overseas with CIDA and with the private sector. Holder of a BA from the University of British Columbia and an MA from the University of Toronto, she also studied international development and development economics at the University of Stockholm where she received an MA in international development.
Her career as a CIDA officer included a two-year secondment to the APEC Secretariat in Singapore in the 1990's, a corporate planning and budgeting assignment in the Policy Branch of CIDA and 15 years as a program director and analyst in the Asia Branch of CIDA. From 2004 to 2007 she served as Head of Aid in Indonesia and was on the spot when that country was hit by the 2004 tsunami disaster. She and her staff led the development, implementation and management of the CIDA Tsunami Reconstruction efforts in Indonesia. She has also worked on long-term assignments in Bangladesh, and Thailand and on shorter term assignments in India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Vietnam.
Rosalind's assignments included governance policy and institutional capacity building, policy analysis, evaluation assessments, country program frameworks, performance assessments at the program and project level, project monitoring and community needs assessments.