Dr. Richard Kohl is an independent consultant specializing in scaling up promising and proven innovations and programs in international development. He has worked extensively in Africa, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in agri-food systems, early childhood development, global health and women’s and girls’ empowerment. He has written and published extensively on scaling, including several papers for the Scaling COP on Scaling and Systems and Scaling Principles. He is the co-leader of the COP’s Mainstreaming Scaling initiative, and has in that context has written case studies of the CGIAR, GIZ, and African Development Bank (forthcoming). Richard previously worked for Management Systems International, the OECD Development Center and the US Dept of State. Dr. Kohl lives in Portland OR.