W J STRUTHERS

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

• Manager Rural Bank New Zealand
• Marketing/Lending Manager, Deputy to GM, Wrightson Farmer’s Finance Limited, NZ.
• Rural Service Centre Manager, Wrightson, New Zealand

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Merger of the Cook Islands Savings and Development Banks to form the Bank of the Cook Islands.
• Restructuring program for the Development Bank of Kiribati. (NZODA)
• Management Consultant to NZODA’s Bukidnon Forest Project, Mindanao, Philippines.
• Rural Lending Consultancy, Development Bank of Papua New Guinea.
• Team Leader, preparing the ADB’s Outer Island Development Program, Kiribati.

Kiribati School Bus

DEVELOPMENT BANKING

• Strategic Planning for the establishment of the Bank of the Cook Islands
• Review of the FSM Development Bank for the Asian Development Bank
• Review of Niue Development Bank, for NZODA
• Review of Provincial Indonesian Development Banks. (ADB)
• Regional (Pacific) review of Development Banks for NZODA
• Rehabilitation program for the Development Bank of Kiribati. (NZODA)
• Rural lending assistance to the Development Bank of (Western) Samoa. (ADB)
• Review of an NZODA program to the Development Bank of the Solomon Islands
• Review of the Cook Islands Development Bank for a program of assistance by NZODA.

RURAL FINANCE

• Rural Bank, New Zealand -  Specialist Agri-business loan appraiser and Branch Manager
• Wrightson Farmers Finance Limited, New Zealand -  Senior executive
• Farm Credit Corporation, Canada - Credit Officer /Rural Loan Appraiser
• WOSED Women’s Microfinance programme, Fiji - review. (NZODA)
• Village Bank Micro-credit scheme, Kiribati - review. (UNDP)
• Review of Rural Finance facilities and requirements (commercial and microfinance) for a Cambodian Agriculture Value Chain project
• Access to Finance assessments for Agri-Business Value Chain projects in the Philippines, Timor Leste, Indonesia and Cambodia – from microfinance to commercial banking.

RURAL & PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT

• Farm Management Consultant and Rural Valuer, New Zealand.
• Outer Island Development (Trust Fund) Kiribati for the ADB.
• Credit & Small business Specialist, FSM, ADB.
• Review of Samoa Small Business Enterprise Centre, NZODA.
• BFI Community Development Programme, Mindanao, Philippines
• Sericulture Development, Lao PDR
• Agri-business Value Chain Analysis and Project Identification, Philippines, Cambodia, Timor Leste and Indonesia.
• Strategic Review of the Philippine Dairy value chain, NZODA

TRAINING (Project Appraisal, Accounts Analysis, Credit & Business Management).

• Rural Bank New Zealand - new staff orientation program and own staff.
• Wrightson Finance New Zealand - Interactive Management for managers & executives.
• Papua New Guinea Development Bank – Loan appraisal, field evaluation / report writing.
• Development Bank of Kiribati – “everything”
• Outer Island Development Program Kiribati - training island task force teams, Island Project Officers, Island Clerks and Ministry staff on the operation of the proposed trust fund. Also addressed village groups and Members of Parliament.
• State Owned Commercial Banks, Lao PDR – Credit Risk Appraisal and Loan Management.
• Presentation on Benchmarking to ADFIP conference, Fiji.
• Bank of the Cook Islands – Merger management, new bank management/policies etc.
• Bank of Cambodia (Centre for Banking Studies) developed new curriculum in microfinance management.

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