Guest authors

We also encourage our community of partners to contribute their expert views, insights and experiences. A full list of our guest authors and former staff is below

David Barton

Steve Bass

Senior associate, Director's Group

Emilie Beauchamp

Emilie Beauchamp was a senior researcher in IIED's Strategy and Learning Group until June 2022

Claire Bedelian

Senior resilience researcher with Mercy Corps

Daniel Behailu

Roy Behnke

Million Belay

Coordinator, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa

Ridwan Bello

Ridwan Bello is a student at Jigawa State College of Education in Nigeria. He is a poet and writes about environmentalism, with a particular focus on environmentalism in modern African literature.

Christophe Béné

Tor Benjaminsen

Emily Benson

Emily Benson was a senior researcher in IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets and programme manager for the Green Economy Coalition until February 2022

Julio Berdegué

Thierry Berger

Associate (law, economies and justice programme), Natural Resources

Frank Bergh

Frank Bergh is a senior engineer at NRECA International

Thais Bessa

Global gender advisor, Integrated Land and Resource Governance (ILRG) programme, USAID

Sarah Best

Sarah Best was a senior researcher in IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets until May 2026

Anshul Bhamra

Anshul Bhamra is part of the policy analysis and communications team at Development Alternatives

Tom Bigg

Tom Bigg was director of IIED's Strategy and Learning Group until May 2026

Duan Biggs

Anna Bishop

Anna Bishop was a project manager in IIED's climate diplomacy team until March 2026

Babucarr Bittaye

Associate programme officer for energy access and cross sectoral

Emma Blackmore

Associate, Shaping Sustainable Markets

Mick Blowfield

Mick was director of IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets group until December 2017

Felia Boerwinkel

Felia Boerwinkel is food and energy change lab coordinator for Hivos

Anna Bolin

Anna Bolin was a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group until August 2021

Mumina Bonaya

Charlotte Bonnet

Consultant, East African Research Fund project 

Supawut Boonmahathanakorn

Architect and regional coordinator of the Asia-wide Community Architects Network (CAN)

Somsook Boonyabancha

Board of trustees

Samuel Bowers

Research scientist, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh

Svenja Brachmann

Marena Brinkhurst

Stephanie Brittain

Stephanie Brittain is a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Oxford

Donald Brown

Alison Brown

Professor of urban planning and international development, University of Cardiff

Cheryl Brown

Phillip Bruner

Erik Bryld

Managing director and senior consultant at Tana Copenhagen

Jorund Buen

Jorund Buen is partner and co-founder of Differ.

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Cecilia Bueno

Cecilia da Silva Bernardo is director for cooperation of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Environment of the Republic of Angola and co-chair of the Adaptation Committee; Maria del Pilar Bueno is member of the Adaptation Committee, researcher at CONICET (Argentina) and professor at Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Anna Bulman

Michael Burgass

Michael Burgass is a director of Biodiversify and specialises in fisheries and ocean health

Helen Burley

Former Communications officer (blogs)

Christopher Busiinge

Research and communications associate, Kabarole Research and Resource Centre (KRC)

Abbi Buxton

Abbi Buxton is a gender-based violence expert with four decades of lived and professional experience in the mining sector.

Rebecca Byrnes

A legal research and communications consultant, with a recent Masters dissertation focusing on scaling up access to decentralised renewable energy in the Least Developed Countries.

Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa

Professor of epidemiology and public health at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) and coordinator of the Belo Horizonte Observatory for Urban Health

Talia Calnek-Sugin

Talia Calnek-Sugin is completing her MSc in environment and development at the London School of Economics and is also the communications assistant for LSE Cities.