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Ian Smillie has 30 years of experience in the field of international development as a programmer, evaluator, and writer. He has managed large development enterprises in Canada, Africa, and Asia, was a founder of the Canadian nongovernmental development organization, Inter Pares, and was director of one of Canada's largest NGOs, CUSO. As consultant to a wide range of governmental and nongovernmental organizations for the past 15 years, he has been involved in a range of development initiatives in South Asia and Africa. He has written extensively on various aspects of development. His most recent publications include The Alms Bazaar: Altruism Under Fire; Non Profit Organizations and International Development (London: IT Publications, 1995) and Stakeholders: Government-NGO Partnerships for International Development (London: Earthscan, 1999), co-edited with Henny Helmich.

The Charity of Nations: Humanitarian Action in a Calculating World, by Ian Smillie and Larry Minear. 2004.

Patronage or Partnership: Local Capacity Building in Humanitarian Crises, Edited by Ian Smillie. 2001.

Relief and Development: The Struggle for Synergy, Occasional Paper # 33, by Ian Smillie. 1998. [comment by Charles MacCormack]