Spokespeople

IIED researchers are available to comment in the media on environment and development topics. To arrange an interview or to request a list of spokespeople and their areas of expertise, please contact IIED's press officer Mike Shanahan

+44 207 388 2117

mike.shanahan@iied.org
 

"Forestry can contribute to sustainable development and the eradication of poverty, but only with good forest governance - and this requires the right leadership, institutions and policies."
James Mayers, head of IIED's Natural Resources Group

"Many governments still see urban growth as something they should try and stop. But urban growth does not have to mean urban problems."
David Satterthwaite, senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements Group

"It is time to look long and hard at what is wrong with the global food system and find ways to make it work better, especially for poor and marginalised communities."
Michel Pimbert, director of IIED's Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity and Livelihoods Programme

"We are borrowing from the future and leaving the next generation with an environmental overdraft. We need policy to shift from viewing economic growth as inviolable to seeing that environmental limits and people's rights are more important."
Steve Bass, senior fellow.

"Poor communities are not sitting on their hands but are acting to limit the threats they face from climate change. Their efforts need greater support from the international community."
Saleemul Huq, head of IIED's Climate Change Group

"A boycott of airfreighted products such as Kenyan beans would do little to mitigate climate change but would be disastrous for many poor African farmers."
Bill Vorley, head of IIED's Sustainable Markets Group