Lila Buckley

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Senior Researcher, Natural Resources Group
+44 (0) 20 3463 7399
lila.buckley@iied.org
Expertise: 

Food security research, smallholder livelihoods development, organic agriculture and permaculture, biogas, payment for ecosystem services, ethnographic methods, energy resources assessment, Chinese civil society.
Experience in China, South-East Asia, US, and West Africa.

Current work: 

Building IIED’s strategy and actions on engaging China across the Institute’s work. Building partnerships in China. Research on Chinese agriculture and resource issues in Senegal and elsewhere.

Before IIED: 

Assistant Executive Director of the Global Environmental Institute, Beijing, China.

MSc (Distinction) Environmental Change and Management, University of Oxford
Blakemore Freeman Scholar, IUP Tsinghua University, Beijing; BA (suma cum laude)
Chinese and Anthropology/Sociology, Middlebury College, US.

Languages: 
English (native); Mandarin Chinese (fluent); French (advanced)