Curriculum Vitae
Kevin Foster
Address
Phone: +27 21 671 1402
P O Box 46830, Glosderry, 7702
Fax: +27 21 671 1409
South Africa
Cell: +27 82 795 2210
kevin@pdg.co.za
Personal
Date of birth:
12 February 1986
Languages:
English (First Lang), Afrikaans (Second Lang) and
isiXhosa (Third Lang)
Education
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Masters in Public Policy and Administration: University of
Cape Town (UCT)
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Honours in Politics, Philosophy and Economics: UCT
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Bachelor of Commerce in Politics, Philosophy & Economics: UCT
2009 - 2012
2008
2005-07
Fields of Specialisation
Qualitative
and
quantitative
public
policy
research
and
analysis,
intergovernmental relations, environmental and climate change policy for local
government and monitoring and evaluation.
PDG project experience
2013 – Present: PDG: Since joining PDG Kevin has worked across the PDG
practise areas. He has worked primarily in the intergovernmental relations,
monitoring and evaluation, environment and urban systems practice areas. He
was recently part of three separate project teams working on assessing the
functionality of South Africa’s intergovernmental relations system, developing a
new intergovernmental relations framework, and assessing the role of district
municipalities, all of which are projects for DCoG. His work in monitoring and
evaluation has included conducting an evaluation of the Management
Performance Assessment Tool for DPME, developing tools and criteria for the
Gauteng Premier’s Service Excellence Awards and an evaluation of the Urban
Settlements Development Grant. He is currently working on a housing demand
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Curriculum Vitae: Kevin Foster
study for the Western Cape provincial government and a costing study of
environmental management for SALGA.
Kevin’s other work for PDG has included, contributing to a climate change policy
review to assist local government in dealing with climate change for CoGTA and
on the development of a position paper on the electricity distribution system for
SALGA, conducting interviews and analysing data collected from stakeholders. He
is currently part of the Municipal Benchmarking Initiative team and responsible
for the secretariat of two of the six cities’ working groups, collecting data from
the cities using it to calculate performance indicators and generate working group
reports.
Work experience
2010 – 2012: Exclusive Analysis: Current Intelligence Analyst (2010-2011)
and Approved Analyst (2012), researching, reporting and forecasting political,
policy, violence and property risks in Southern and East Africa.
Key responsibilities:
Research and in depth analysis of political events in Southern and East
Africa for extended political forecasts and reference documents.
Writing forecasts of the effects of ANC politics on government policy in
South Africa.
Daily updates of the Exclusive Analysis database of political and violent
events in Southern and East Africa.
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2009 – 2011: Department of Political Studies: Public Policy and
Administration Teaching Assistant to Ms Raenette Taljaard and Dr Vinothan
Naidoo and Politics Tutor.
Key responsibilities:
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Hiring and coordinating tutors for the 3rd year Public Policy and
Administration course and the 2nd year State Management and
Administration Course.
Devising tutorial content.
Conducting support lectures and coordinating guest lectures.
Tutoring Public Policy and Administration, State Management and
Administration, Development Administration, Political Economy,
International Relations. .
2009 – 2010: Kaiser Associates Economic Development Practice:
Researcher on Local Government Small Medium and Micro Enterprises
Procurement Project for the Department of Trade and Industry.
Key responsibilities:
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Interviewing municipal finance officials about municipal procurement
practices.
Retrieving and analysing municipal financial data for policy
recommendations on increasing procurement from local SMMEs.
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