Leadership
Our leaders are responsible and accountable for delivering IIED's strategy and organisational objectives, and achieve this through a distributed leadership structure including: a strategy and leadership team; research and learning committee; and operations committee.
The strategy and leadership team is our most senior internal management body. It exercises authority delegated by the executive director and the team provides strategic leadership and executive decision-making for IIED, ensuring the effective delivery of the organisation's charitable mission.
The research and learning committee oversees the delivery of IIED's research portfolio, driving research excellence and stimulating innovation through new ideas, partnerships and approaches that advance our strategic priorities. It is also responsible for delivering IIED's research-facing commitments to equity and justice.
The operations committee provides collective leadership on key operational matters and risks.
Members of our leadership teams
The following employees comprise each leadership team:
Strategy and leadership team
- Tom Mitchell, executive director (chair)
- Nicole Walsh, chief operating officer and company secretary
- Ali Merifield, director of fundraising and communications
- Carina Bachofen, director of research and strategic impact
- Lindlyn Tamufor Moma, director of research and strategic impact
- Lucy Earle, director of research and strategic impact
- Shoaib Siddiqui, director of finance and operations
- Jo Oldham, director of people
- Larissa Setaro, head of programme delivery
- Kate Groom, governance manager (secretariat)
Research and learning committee
- Carina Bachofen, director of research and strategic impact (co-chair)
- Lindlyn Tamufor Moma, director of research and strategic impact (co-chair)
- Lucy Earle, director of research and strategic impact (co-chair)
- Anna Schulz, principal researcher (interim chair of research ethics committee)
- Anna Walnycki, principal researcher
- Deena Dajani, senior researcher
- Dilys Roe, principal researcher
- Duncan Macqueen, principal researcher
- Lorenzo Cotula, principal researcher
- Mohsen Gul, senior researcher
- Natalie Lartey, intersectional justice lead
- Stefano D'Errico, head of monitoring, evaluation and learning
- Ife Fanibi, senior project manager (secretariat)
Operations committee
- Nicole Walsh, chief operating officer (chair)
- Shoaib Siddiqui, director of finance and operations
- Jo Oldham, director of people
- Fiona Roberts, head of programme delivery
- Larissa Setaro, head of programme delivery
- Sally Ralph, head of programme delivery
- Brian Barban, compliance manager
- Martha Willis, sustainability lead
- Shazmin Begum, governance and risk officer (secretariat)