Martyn is an urban development specialist with 15 years’ experience in the public and private sector in Africa, Asia and the UK. Martyn has worked with a range of development agencies including UK FCDO (formerly DFID), the Cities Alliance, UNICEF, UN-HABITAT, FAO, WFP, Asian Development Bank, Agence française de développement (AFD),  Global Green Growth Initiative, as well as national, sub-national and municipal governments. He has a decade’s experience working on urban development programmes in Africa and Asia, much of which has focused on developing low-cost, replicable tools and approaches to managing urbanization. Martyn has extensive experience in providing technical assistance, capacity development support, and research design and implementation on land-use and urban planning issues in the global south. This advice has covered spatial and land-use planning, climate resilience and adaptation, Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of plans, policies, and programmes, local economic and industrial development, urban land markets, infrastructure planning and municipal service delivery in rapidly urbanizing contexts in east and west Africa.