I am undertaking a PhD with Oxford Brookes University at the moment looking at success factors and influences on leadership in international humanitarian and development organisations in South Asia, particularly Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka.

For this I intend to carry out an electronic survey, and had hoped to get access to some kind of up to date country list of all the leaders of these kinds of organisations.

By 'leaders', I mean: Country Directors, CEOs, Chief of Party's, Senior Programme Directors, Resident Representatives, Principal or Chief Advisors, etc - the bigshots.

By 'these kind of organisations', I mean: INGOs (i.e. Oxfam, World Vision, Care, Tearfund, MSF etc etc), bi-laterals (i.e. SDP, GIZ etc.), philanthropic organisations and foundations (i.e. Clinton, Gates, Agha Khan etc.) multi-laterals (UN agencies, ICRC - excuse the possibly politically incorrect labelling there!), and even the well-known Consultancy firms in the sector (i.e. GOPA, GFA, Crown Agents, Adam Smith, Chemonics, Coffey, etc.) and others that I would not know where to place, i.e. DAI, MSI, PSI...

But I have come up against a brick wall, and not able to either identify a forum where these kinds of lists exist (used to be able to call in at OCHA for this kind of thing), or have found certain forums i.e. the Humanitarian Forum in Pakistan, which lists the INGOs (but not the others) but has a privacy policy that will not allow access to contact details of the leaders to non-members.

This means I need to rethink my approach strategy, and where possible target direct email addresses of leaders that I can get access to, but also place my electronic survey of perhaps a afew platforms and then request administrators of relevant forums to ask their members to access these in this way.

And for the above reasons and being a bit stumped, I have decided to seek research assistance here. Could you can shed some light, offer ideas, connect me to the people that might provide the type of access I need, or link me to updated email address lists, or even platforms that might assist in me successfully carrying out my research?

As mentioned, specific geo-focus is Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan, and only IHDOs as per the above types...

My time frame is to get the survey 'out there' early April if possible... and whatever assistance you could provide will be really appreciated.

Kind regards,

Adi