Matt Wright

Matt is a digital communications specialist with a particular interest in how digital technologies can be used to communicate evidence and support positive social and environmental change.

He leads IIED's web team and manages the institute's key digital projects, combining user-centred content, technology, digital strategy and organisational change. His work spans the development of websites, digital content and marketing, audience engagement, experimentation with emerging technologies, and training and capacity building.

Matt’s work increasingly focuses on the practical and responsible use of AI across international development, including research, communications and organisational processes. And he also works closely with colleagues across IIED's work on gender data, particularly on communicating research and evidence around the gender-climate-environment nexus. 

In 2021, Matt led research examining how organisations could combine digital and physical approaches to engage more inclusively with partners and stakeholders. And in 2022, he devised A Greener Worldle, IIED's climate and environmental version of the Wordle internet word game that proved a big hit in the climate community and quickly grew to over 5,000 players per day.

Matt is also the chair of IIED's Information Communication and Technology Advisory Group and a member of its research ethics commitee.