Staff

David Bonbright - Chief Executive

David is founder and Chief Executive of Keystone. Over the past three decades, as a grantmaker and manager with Aga Khan Foundation, Ford Foundation, Oak Foundation, and Ashoka, David has sought to evolve and test innovative approaches to strengthening citizen self-organization for sustainable development as an alternative to prevailing bureaucratic, top-down models of social service delivery and social value creation.

While with the Ford Foundation, he was declared persona non grata by the apartheid government in South Africa. In 1990 he returned to South Africa and entrepreneured the development of key building blocks for civil society, including the first nonprofit internet service provider, the national association of NGOs, the national association of grantmakers, and enabling reforms to the regulatory and tax framework for not-for-profit organisations that were among the first laws passed by the newly elected Mandela government.

Andre Proctor - Programme Services Director

An African historian by training, Andre has worked for the last thirty years in education and development practice. For the last twelve years he has specialized as facilitator of organization development processes for CSOs in Africa, including program evaluations where he has pioneered new approaches to developmental impact evaluation.

A founding partner of Keystone in 2004, Andre now serves as its Programme Director and manages the Cape Town office. He leads on the development of Keystone’s ground-breaking Impact Planning, Assessment and Learning (IPAL) methodology and also co-leads in the development of Keystone’s Comparative Constituency Feedback Survey methodology.

Alex Jacobs - Director of Research

During 1999 – 2008, Alex was the founding Director of Mango, a UK-based charity that helps NGOs strengthen their financial management and accountability. Alex worked with many different NGOs, conducting cutting edge research with Concern and carrying out major evaluations for ActionAid and DEC. Alex previously worked in sub Saharan Africa with Oxfam. He has a degree in Social Anthropology and is a qualified Chartered Management Accountant.

Alex joined Keystone at the start of 2009 and has lead responsibility for the delivery of the ALINe project. Additional roles involve methodology and services development, including constituency voice, and the development of Keystone as a leader in its field. 

Munyarazi Saruchera - Advisor and Research Associate

Munya Saruchera joined Keystone in South Africa in November 2008. He has over 10 years’ research working experience in the community-based natural resource management and smallholder farmer support sectors. He has worked for a range of national, regional and international organisations in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Munya’s work interest is in the quality of relationships and the learning systems between development agents and beneficiaries in social change and sustainable community development processes. He has studied political science and regional and policy studies for his honours and masters degrees.

Natalia Kiryttopoulou - Advisor and Research Associate 

Originally from Greece, Natalia studied Law in the French Universities of Caen and Toulouse. She completed postgraduate studies in International Commerce and a Master’s degree in International Law and Relations at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

Natalia joined Keystone in November 2006. Her current work involves strategic research and, as a Keystone advisor, she provides services to citizen organizations and philanthropic institutions for designing impact planning and learning systems as well as comparative constituency feedback surveys. Natalia speaks and writes fluently in Greek, English, French and Spanish.

Roger Granada - Office Manager

Roger joined Keystone in March 2009 after working in the social change organisation We Are What We Do. He holds a BA in Economics and he is involved in different sustainability networks. Roger’s role at Keystone involves several levels of administrative and office management duties.  He assists the Chief Executive and the Director of Research and also contributes to finance, business development and communications projects.

Richard Ponsford - Project Administrator

Richard joined Keystone at the start of 2009 after working in Bangladesh with local indigenous rights organisations as part of his VSO placement. Before that he completed his MA in International Development. Richard’s role at Keystone is to deal with the the organisation finances, the administrative issues of projects, principally the ALINe project, and to support communication and knowledge management at Keystone.