About Us

ADS brings together vast and diverse individual and team experiences and cutting edge expertise in policy design, implementation, and delivery of results. We operate in the areas of justice, Rule of Law, governance, constitutional design, federalism, regulation, administration, education, public finance and corporate governance. By accessing, catalyzing and consolidating the skills of highly reputed academics, legal practitioners, policy-makers, administrators and regulatory professionals with a multi-disciplinary background, ADS possesses the dexterity and resources to put together strong teams tailored to the needs of different projects.

We attach as much significance to the political economy dimension of reform as we do to its technical aspects. Our experts inform their interventions by rigorous empiricism and possess a deep understanding of the history and functioning of complex legal, administrative and regulatory systems in developing economies. Apart from enriching ADS they also operate in and enjoy high stature in different professional spheres and have access to vast local and international networks. Given our firm emphasis on the quality of our human resources, ADS enjoys an impeccable reputation for high quality, analytically sound, and contextually informed output that does not just hope for change but makes change happen.