Guest bloggers

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

Pape Lamine Diouf

Climate change expert and member of the LDC Chair’s support team

Yared Abera

Yared Abera is a Global Youth Climate Leader and founder and director of The Youth Print, an Ethiopian youth-led civil society organisation creating innovative youth projects to support the Sustainable Development Goals.

Achala Abeysinghe

Achala C Abeysinghe was principal researcher in IIED's Climate Change research group, and head of its global climate law, policy and governance programme, until July 2019

Raashee Abhilashi

Raashee Abhilashi is national coordinator for IIED’s 'Enhancing climate resilience impacts of India’s social protection' programme

Gloria Acayo

Programme officer for food governance at Food Rights Alliance

Natalia Acero

Jean-Paul Adam

Director for Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resources Management, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Simon Addison

Senior associate, Climate Change research group

Mutmainnah Adenan

Programme manager at Komunitas TERAS

Lasmini Adi

Barbara Adolph

Senior associate, Natural Resources

Siddharth Agarwal

Director at the Urban Health Resource Centre

Rachel Ajambo

Rachel Ajambo is a seasoned agribusiness expert and the Kilimo Trust’s country team leader for Uganda, based in Kampala.

Shamshad Akhtar

Former Minister of Finance for Pakistan

Maarten Akkerman

Reem Alhaddadin

Researcher on sustainable development, WANA Institute

Hafsa Ali

Junior area coordinator at Samuel Hall and research assistant within the Protracted Displacement in an Urban World project

Eve Allen

Master in city planning candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mao Amis

Mao Amis is the founder and executive director of the African Centre for Green Economy (AfriCGE)

Molly Anderson

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Food Studies at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, USA and a member of the International Panel of Experts in Sustainable Food Systems

Jo Anderson

Founder and director, Carbon Tanzania

Stephanie Andrei

Stephanie Andrei is a visiting researcher and coordinator at the International Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation (ICCCAD)

Juliet Aneno

Market development coordinator, Village Enterprise

Isabelle Anguelovski

Urban planner specialising in urban environmental justice at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Illari Aragon

Illari Aragon was a senior researcher in IIED's Climate Change research group until May 2023

Diane Archer

Former IIED senior researcher

Alejandro Argumedo

Asociación ANDES

Jockin Arputham

Fatima Athoumani

Fatima Athoumani is a project manager at the Environment and Forestry Directorate-General, part of the Ministry of Production and Environment of the Union of the Comoros

Jess Auerbach

Associate professor of anthropology, North-West University, South Africa

Mario Avila

Mulugeta Ayalew

Ofelia Bagotlo

Founder, Homeless People's Federation of the Philippines

Julia Baker

Kevin Bakulumpagi

Subhi Barakat

Subhi Barakat was a senior researcher, Climate Change, until December 2019

Stef Barratt

Pillar lead for data standards and analytics at Samuel Hall

Mike Barry

Mike Barry is director of Mikebarryeco Ltd. He was architect of Marks & Spencer’s Plan A.

Nentébou Barry

Director of Créativité et Développement (C-DEV), Guinea

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.