Dr Garry Dearden is a Director of IPPF based in the Federation's Central Office in London.
Garry Dearden joined IPPF in 1984. He has served the Federation in several technical and managerial positions over the years and has visited over fifty countries in all six regions of IPPF to support the work of Member Associations.
He has responsibility for:
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orgranizational learning and evaluation
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knowledge information systems
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policy development
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governance and the accreditation of Member Associations
In particular, he provided the lead staff support to Volunteer Task Forces that restructured IPPF's governance in 1998 and established an accreditation system for Member Associations of the Federation in 2003.
Prior to joining IPPF, Garry worked at the New University of Ulster in the north of Ireland. Before that, he carried out a series of evaluation studies of innovative approaches to teaching and learning at Hampshire College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tulane University in the United States, and at the University of Surrey, Southampton University and Queen Mary College, University of London in the United Kingdom.