About Us - Staff - Overseas - Afghanistan (AFG)

Alan Macdonald
Senior Technical Advisor
Kabul, Afghanistan

Main Responsiblities

As Senior Technical Advisor, Alan is responsible for the planning, execution and implementation of the landmine impact survey in Afghanistan. He provides the technical and managerial leadership for the survey while working closely with the Quality Assurance Monitors to ensure that survey standards are met and that information provided by the survey teams is complete and accurate, and in accordance with survey protocols for UN certification. In addition, he liaises and coordinates activities with MCPA, MACA, UNDP, and represents SAC to the UN and government of Afghanistan.

Background

Alan has eight years experience in humanitarian mine action with HALO Trust programs in Afghanistan, Sudan, Mozambique, Somaliland, Angola and Eritrea. He was the Africa Desk Officer at HALO headquarters in Scotland from 1998 – 2001 where he managed the start-up of new programs in Somaliland and Eritrea. He began his career in Afghanistan. From 2001 until joining SAC, he was the Program Manager for HALO Trust’s mine clearance program in Eritrea responsible for 470 national staff, the financial management of projects, the deployment of manual, survey, UXO and mechanical teams as well as authoring project reports and coordination with the Eritrean National Demining Authority. Alan was a Commissioned Officer in the British Army, where from 1981 – 1993, he served in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, the Falkland Islands, Brunei, Belize, Northern Ireland, the Gulf War, Germany and Uganda.

Education/Other

Alan, who is married with two children, received his post-graduate diploma in Farm Business Management from Aberdeen University in Scotland in 1994. He is a citizen of the United Kingdom.