Greg Power is the Founder and Board Chair of Global Partners Governance, which he established in 2005 to deliver projects strengthening systems of governance internationally. He has since worked extensively across the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and parts of Asia.

The bulk of this work involves direct support to senior politicians, ministers and officials in such countries, developing policy, improving service delivery and helping to implement reform. These programmes have included work with parliaments, ministries and decentralised government in more than sixty countries.

He is an expert in political economy analysis and writes widely on behavioural approaches to politics and managing the process of change. He is a long-standing adviser to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, UNDP, FCDO, and the former USAID on such matters. He was author of the first 'Global Parliamentary Report', published by the UNDP and IPU in 2012, co-authored DFID’s central guidance on working with political parties and parliaments, and contributed to both USAID and European Commission guidance on the use of political economy analysis.

He was previously a special adviser to British ministers Rt Hon Robin Cook MP and Rt Hon Peter Hain MP, working on parliamentary reform, constitutional change and the wider democratic agenda in conjunction with the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit and Downing Street policy staff. Prior to this he ran a commission on parliamentary scrutiny for the Hansard Society, and before this was head of political affairs at constitutional reform think tank Charter88, a researcher to an MEP and a trade union tutor for the TUC.

He was awarded an OBE for services to the promotion of parliamentary democracy and political reform in the January 2023 New Year’s Honours.

His book Inside the Political Mind: The human side of politics, and how its shapes development, was published in 2024. The book combines insights from behavioural economics, change management and comparative