Read engineering and economics at Cambridge. Worked in heavy engineering and iron and steel industry ... then became Chartered Accountant with Coopers and Lybrand (now part of PriceWaterhouseCoopers). About 20 years of professional and corporate experience including work on computerization, MIS and operational performance and being a corporate CFO. Another 20 years or so of work as independent consultant working on both corporate performance and international relief and development ... World Bank, IFC, UN agencies and others. Recent work on development of Community Analytics (CA) a system of accounting for the progress and performance of society ... the community ... using the methods associated with corporate accountancy but going beyond money cost, revenue and profit to include also value consumption, value creation and value change. The community is the reporting entity and organizations are seen from their impact on the society ... good or bad. CA uses long established concepts in conjunction with 21st century technology ... web database / cloud ... mobile text messages ... relational data ... social networks ... open source solutions like FrontlineSMS, etc.