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

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Raquel Ludermir

Public policy and advocacy manager at Habitat for Humanity Brazil

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Masalu Luhula

Attorney and land tenure specialist at Landesa

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Joseph Macarthy

Executive director, Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre (SLURC)

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Rangarirai Machemedze

Research consultant, Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC)

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Cass Madden

Coordinator, International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP)

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John Magrath

Programme Researcher, Oxfam

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Ahamadou Maiga

Ahamadou Mohamed Maiga is an extractive and energy consultant working with IIED

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Nassim Majidi

Dr Nassim Majidi is co-founder and director of research at Samuel Hall

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Jack Makau

Associate director of Slum Dwellers International Kenya

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Basil Malaki

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Patricia Malasha

Gender and social inclusion advisor for USAID Integrated Land and Resource Governance (ILRG) programme in Zambia

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Nivedita Mani

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Shahrin Mannan

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Katharine Mansell

Former media and external affairs manager, Communications

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Clarisse Marsac

Clarisse Marsac was monitoring, evaluation and learning officer in IIED's Strategy and Learning Group until January 2023

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Ben Martin

Ben Martin was communications and publications officer at the Green Economy Coalition until December 2025

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Winifred Masiko

Uganda focal point on gender and climate change to the UNFCCC, coordinator of the gender and climate change of the LDCs, and a member African Group of Negotiators (AGNES) on climate change

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Abdou-Rachidou Matcheri

Head of ADHD’s land tenure programme and communication programme

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Adiavou Mawuvi

Executive director at ADHD

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Anne-Marie Mayer

Anne-Marie Mayer is a nutrition research consultant for IIED on the SD4ALL programme

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Marina Mayer

MSc student in International Development and Management, Lund University

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Victoria Maynard

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Philile Mbatha

Senior lecturer in University of Cape Town and co-director of One Ocean Hub - South Africa

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Samson Mbewe

Samson Mbewe is programme lead, SouthSouthNorth

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Samantha McCraine

Independent monitor for the ecbi training and support programme and a consultant at the World Wildlife Fund

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Colin Mcfarlane

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Gordon McGranahan

Gordon McGranahan is a former principal researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group; team leader, urbanisation. He left IIED in 2016.

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Heather McGray

Director, Climate Justice Resilience Fund

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Matthew McKernan

Research consultant, Sustainable Markets Group

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Jana McPherson

Senior manager for community conservation projects at Wilder Institute

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James McQuilken

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Andrew Meaux

Andrew Meaux is the urban projects coordinator at the International Rescue Committee (IRC)

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Tehtena Mebratu-Tsegaye

Tehtena Mebratu-Tsegaye is a senior legal researcher for the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment.

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Frank Mechielsen

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Eugenia Merayo

Eugenia Merayo was a researcher in IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets group until March 2020

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Zenebech Mesfin

Zenebech Mesfin is gender assistant with the USAID Integrated Land and Resource Governance (ILRG) programme

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Kavya Michael

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Simon Milledge

Former Principal Researcher, Natural Resources Group; Team Leader, Forests

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Afsara Binte Mirza

Research officer at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)

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Tobias Mitchell

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Diana Mitlin

Senior associate, Human Settlements

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Shreya Mitra

Senior Programme Officer, Environment, Climate Change and Security at International Alert.

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Essam Mohammed

Essam Yassin Mohammed was head of blue economy, in IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets, until May 2020

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Hafsa Mohamud Ali

Research assistant within the Protracted Displacement in an Urban World project

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Maimunah Mohd Sharif

Maimunah Mohd Sharif is executive director, UN-Habitat

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Amare Molla

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William Monteith

Lecturer in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Formerly a researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group in 2017

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Bernardo Monzani