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

• ​Andrew Norton, director (chair)
• Deborah Harris, chief operating officer
• Liz Carlile, director, Communications
• Tom Bigg, director, Strategy and Learning
• James Mayers, director, Natural Resources
• Clare Shakya, director, Climate Change
• Laura Kelly, director, Shaping Sustainable Markets
• David Dodman, director, Human Settlements

Operations management team

• Deborah Harris, chief operating officer (chair)
• ​Andrew Norton, director
• Berny Gilbert, head, Finance (interim)
• Liz Aspden, head, Facilities
• Clair Grant-Salmon, head of audience and development, Communications
• Julie Hill, chair of the coordination group
• Catherine Baker, project manager, Strategy and Learning Group
• Tanya Rahman, head, business development
• Research group managers (Marika Weinhardt, Climate Change; Frances Reynolds, Shaping Sustainable Markets; Khanh Tran-Thanh, Natural Resources; Steph Ray, Human Settlements)
• Kevin Moon, senior HR manager
• Lizz Syme, PA to director, Director's Group
• Beth Henriette, programme manager, Climate Change
• Cinzia Cimmino, senior coordinator, Shaping Sustainable Markets

Christele Riou, a consultant in the Finance group, also attends specifically for finance matters.

Research strategy team

• David Dodman, director, Human Settlements (chair)
• Andrew Norton, director  
• Tom Bigg, director, Strategy and Learning
• Tanya Rahman, head, business development 
• Liz Carlile, director, Communications Group
• 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, researcher, Climate Change
• Chris Hopkins, policy manager, Green Economy Coalition
• Fiona Roberts, senior coordinator, Natural Resources
• Stefano D'Errico, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning manager, Strategy and Learning Group