Leadership
Our leaders are responsible and accountable for delivering IIED's strategy and key organisational objectives, and they meet regularly to make sure we're staying on track. Their experience spans diverse research areas ranging from forestry to communications research to governance.
Our leaders are part of one or more of three IIED teams that oversee our strategic and management work: the strategy and management team, the operations management team and the research strategy team.
- The strategy and management team is responsible for delivering our strategy and the cross-cutting institutional priority on governance for sustainable development
- The operations management team is responsible for the systems that are essential for delivering our strategy, and
- The research strategy team focuses on steering the content and maintaining oversight of our strategy.
The following members of staff comprise each leadership team:
Strategy and management team
- Tom Mitchell, executive director (chair)
- Victoria Reynolds, chief operating officer (interim)
- James Persad, director, Communications
- Tom Bigg, director, Strategy and Learning
- James Mayers, director, Natural Resources
- Clare Shakya, director, Climate Change
- Laura Kelly, director, Shaping Sustainable Markets
- Lucy Earle, director (interim), Human Settlements
- Tracy Kajumba, principal researcher, Climate Change (lead on intersectional disadvantage and inequality)
- Aditya Bahadur, principal researcher, Human Settlements (observer, as chair of research strategy team)
Operations management team
- Victoria Reynolds, chief operating officer (interim) (chair)
- Tom Mitchell, executive director
- Larissa Setaro, co-chair of the coordination group (Cinzia Cimmino, co-chair of the coordination group as alternative)
- Julie Hill, group manager, Communications
- Juliette Tunstall, internal engagement and external events officer, Communications
- Catherine Baker, project manager, Strategy and Learning Group
- Group managers (Frances Reynolds, Shaping Sustainable Markets; Beth Henriette, Climate Change; Sarah Tucker, Human Settlements; Christele Riou, Natural Resources; Sally Ralph, Strategy and Learning Group)
- Andrea Vogel, head, People (interim)
- Leila Fazal, head, business development
- Morris Kagkwo, operations manager, Facilities
- Brian Barban, project accountant, Finance
- Tom Cox, project management office manager
David Gateshill, a consultant in the Finance group, also attends specifically for finance matters.
Research strategy team
- Aditya Bahadur, principal researcher, Human Settlements (chair)
- Tom Mitchell, executive director
- Tom Bigg, director, Strategy and Learning
- James Persad, director, Communications
- Rosalind Goodrich, head of research communications, Communications
- Dilys Roe, principal researcher, Natural Resources
- James Mayers, director, Natural Resources (deputy chair)
- Paul Steele, chief economist, Shaping Sustainable Markets
- Anna Walnycki, senior researcher, Human Settlements
- Brianna Craft, senior researcher, Climate Change
- Chris Hopkins, policy manager, Green Economy Coalition
- Karen Wong, senior researcher, Climate Change
- Fiona Roberts, programme manager, Climate Change
- Stefano D'Errico, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning manager, Strategy and Learning Group