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Lindlyn Moma

Director of research and strategic impact

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Telephone: +44 (0)20 3463 7399
Languages: English, French

Lindlyn is an environmental and human rights advocate and legal scholar whose commitment to justice was shaped by civil wars and conflict over natural resources.

Her work sits at the intersection of environmental rights law, natural resource governance, sustainability and just transitions.

She provides strategic leadership across IIED’s work on nature governance, investment, trade and legal reform, connecting research and partnership to influence systemic change and impact. Lindlyn is also central to IIED's senior leadership team, fundraising, research excellence and governance. 

Lindlyn holds extensive experience in Africa’s mining sector, including serving on the secretariat of the African Mining Vision. She leads research and policy engagement on how growing global demand for critical minerals can drive greener development, industrialisation and local value creation in resource-rich countries, while safeguarding environmental protection, community rights and equitable outcomes.

She currently serves as a member of the board of advisors for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (Int IDEA) and is a strategic advisor to its democracy, environment and climate change programme.

Expertise

Mining, environment and human rights; energy transition; critical minerals trade and governance; natural resource governance; the use of legal tools for green development and to support Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

Before IIED

Lindlyn has held senior leadership roles with Laudato Si Movement, Greenpeace Africa, WaterAid, ActionAid and Third World Network Africa.

She also served as the editor of the Africa Human Rights Law Journal and was a guest lecturer on climate change and human rights at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria’s Law School. 

Education 

  • Legum Doctor, University of Pretoria
  • Master of Laws, human rights and democratisation in Africa, University of Pretoria
  • Graduate diploma, international law, University of Pretoria
  • Maîtrise en Sciences Juridique et Politique, Université Catholique d’Afrique Centrale
  • Bachelor of Laws, University of Buea

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