Experts

Simon Anderson's current research looks at the effectiveness of climate change adaptation. His areas of expertise include agriculture and agro-economic systems, as well as policy analysis, programme management monitoring and evaluation.

Liz Carlile is an expert on research communications. A key focus of her work is lobbying for support to improve research communications through networking and publishing.

She was recently invited to the role of communications reviewer on the UK Department for International Development's mid-term reviews of research consortia. She is the communications lead in the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation initiative (ESPA), and is communications reviewer for the ESRC/DFID research programme. She has also acted as a consultant on communications strategy for a range of development and research organisations, and was a founder of Panos Pictures.

Lorenzo Cotula is an expert in law and development. He works on international investment law, human rights, land rights and legal issues related to "land grabbing",  as well as the political economy of natural resource investments. He leads IIED's work on Legal Tools for Citizen Empowerment – a collaborative initiative to strengthen local rights and voices in natural resource investments. He has extensive experience in low-income countries in Africa and Asia.

Phil Franks is an expert on the social dimension of natural resource management and conservation, with a particular focus on better understanding and applying social equity principles in this context.

He is currently working on the development of low-cost methods for assessing the social impacts of protected areas and protected area governance, conservation-development linkages, and social and environmental safeguards for REDD+, the international effort to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. He has extensive experience in Africa, Nepal, Southeast Asia and South America.

Saleemul Huq is an expert on the links between climate change and sustainable development, particularly from the perspective of developing countries. He was the lead author of the chapter on Adaptation and Sustainable Development in the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and was the lead author of the chapter on Adaptation and Mitigation in the IPCC's fourth assessment report. 

His current focus is on supporting the engagement of the Least Developed Countries in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He is researching the least developed countries' vulnerability to climate change and the impact of adaptation measures. He is also the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Bangladesh.

Duncan Macqueen is an expert on locally controlled forest farm enterprises which collectively help to secure the multiple values of forest landscapes. His work looks at governance reforms that can support such enterprises, including measures affecting tenure, market access, technical extension and organisational development.

He is currently researching organisational structures for business and policy representation that can best serve the needs of local forest farm producers.

Dilys Roe's work focuses on pro-poor conservation: strategies for linking biodiversity conservation with poverty reduction and social justice. She also works on pro-poor tourism. She previously co-ordinated IIED's Evaluating Eden initiative, a global review of community-based wildlife management. 

Jamie Skinner is an expert on water governance, especially in arid lands. His work has a particular focus on managing the social and environmental dimensions of large dam projects. He also looks at how to manage multiple benefits from water.

He is currently managing the Global Water Initiative programme for West Africa. This programme aims to improve water management for sustainable agriculture and food security across five countries: Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Senegal.  

Krystyna Swiderska's areas of expertise are traditional resource rights and biodiversity governance. She is also researching the potential role of genetic resources and traditional knowledge in climate change adaptation. 

She currently working on the protection of the traditional knowledge, bi-cultural heritage and customary law of indigenous and local communities. She is also researching access to genetic resources and the equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilisation of genetic resources (as set out by the Nagoya Protocol). Her work has a particular focus on India, China, Peru, Kenya and Panama.