Nico Mc Lachlan is the managing director of ODA and has 27-years experience as an advisor in the field of business strategy and managing complex, large-scale change processes.

 

He is specialised in public transport reform and dealing with paratransit sector empowerment and has worked across the African continent including South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Uganda and Namibia.

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Nico acted as an advisor to the minibus taxi industry on both the Cape Town MyCiti and Johannesburg Rea Vaya projects and has worked on public transport improvement projects in Kenya, Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda.  

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Nico has extensive experience in the private and public sectors and in working at the public-private interface. He has more than two decades of experience and the combination of skills, networks and knowledge capital through working with of some of the world's leading practitioners in the fields of business strategy, organisation development and urban mobility improvement.

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Past projects include.

Transport Operating Company (TOC) formation in Cape Town

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