About Nick Graham & Associates
I am passionate about the provision of basic services in an equitable and sustainable manner. This passion started during my postgraduate research on informal settlements and continued through my career as a civil engineer, designing and constructing municipal services. For the past 15 years, I have been working in public policy, recognising that policy, institutions and finance have a higher-level impact on service delivery than technical design.
I have an undergraduate degree in civil engineering and master’s degrees in urban engineering, geography and environmental policy from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and Oxford University, UK. I am a registered professional engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa.
Services
- Infrastructure planning
- Strategy
- Research
- Public policy drafting
- Financial and economic modelling
- Stakeholder engagement
Sectors
- Local government
- Public finance
- Water and sanitation
- Solid waste
- Stormwater
- Energy
- Roads
Client testimonials
“Nick was always available and always went beyond the scope of work to meet our demands. Whenever we had other extra requests that we're not necessarily in the project plan.”
Portfolio Head, South African Local Government Association, 2024
“Nick is clearly very knowledgeable. He has relationships and was very much in touch with the work. It never felt that we were talking to somebody who had delegated everything to someone else. It felt like we were talking to the person who'd written every word of the document that we had just read."
Senior Urban Finance Specialist, World Bank, 2022
“It has been a great pleasure working with you and the PDG team. Your professionalism, attention to detail and willingness to engage openly with all stakeholders involved in this project is greatly appreciated”
Deputy Director, Western Cape Government, 2020
