Greg Munro

Dr Greg Munro is a Public Health Physician with a background in strengthening the primary health care response at a local government level in post apartheid South Africa. He served on the advisory committee of the Ministers of Health and led wide ranging research and reform agendas on issues such health sector parity, the decentralisation of health functions and developed the first local government strategy for responding to the HIV pandemic in South Africa. He served as a long-term consultant to a World Bank project supporting three large Global Fund programmes in Lesotho,and based in Kenya, led capacity development for government and civil society across multiple countries in Eastern and Southern Africa within the UNAIDS technical support facility. He subsequently joined the international NGO sector where he led capacity development for civil society across 40 countries for responses to HIV and TB and managed significant global development contracts, supporting some of the most marginalised and vulnerable sectors of society. In 2016 he joined the Commonwealth LocalGovernment Forum (CLGF) in London as Secretary-General, supporting local democracy and decentralisation in the 54 Commonwealth nations. Since early 2021 Greg has been the Director of Cities Alliance, a partnership hosted by UNOPS, which seeks to address the challenges of urban poverty, slums and informality, particularly in secondary cities. Based in Brussels, Cities Alliance has worked in over 80 countries globally. Greg has worked with many stakeholders in the urban development field, also participating in the Global Task Force for Regional and Local Government. He served for many years as an Honorary Lecturer at the Africa Centre at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and has a number of publications and thought pieces relating to his fields of interest and expertise.