Leadership
Our leaders are responsible 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
- 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
- Paul Steele, acting director, Shaping Sustainable Markets
- David Dodman, director, Human Settlements
Operations management team
- Deborah Harris, chief operating officer (chair)
- Neil Hedgecock, head, Finance
- 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)
- Hannah McColgan, human resources manager
Christele Riou, a consultant in the Finance group, also attends specifically for finance matters.
Research strategy team
- 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
- Caroline King-Okumu, senior researcher, Climate Change
- Susannah Fisher, senior researcher, Climate Change
- David Dodman, director, Human Settlements (chair)
- Diane Archer, senior researcher, Human Settlements
- Dilys Roe, principal researcher, Natural Resources
- James Mayers, director, Natural Resources (deputy chair)
- Paul Steele, chief economist, Shaping Sustainable Markets
- Bill Vorley, principal researcher, Shaping Sustainable Markets