Steve Bass

• Governance and markets that link poverty reduction and environmental management
• International policy processes for sustainable development, with significant roles in UN (several advisory groups for UNEP and UNDP), OECD (previous chair of the DAC Network on Environment and Development Cooperation - Environet) and multi-stakeholder platforms (Poverty Environment Partnership and co-founder of the Green Economy Coalition)
• Considerable national policy and field experience in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and Southern Asia – in sustainable development, green economy, and forestry

Chief environment advisor at the UK Department for International Development.

Senior roles at IIED, as director of programmes 1999-2003, director of forestry and land use 1994-99, associate director 1991-94 and head of the Sustainable Markets Group until 2015. Prior to that, with Rockefeller Foundation and IUCN.

Prior to the role as senior associate at IIED:

• Held senior roles at IIED, as director of programmes 1999-2003, director of forestry and land use 1994-99, associate director 1991-94 and head of the Sustainable Markets Group until 2015
• Chief environment advisor at Department for International Development 2003-05, and
• Prior to that, with Rockefeller Foundation and IUCN.

Education:

• MSc in Forestry and its Relation to Land Management, Oxford University
• BLD Landscape Design, Manchester University
• BA Hons and MA, Agricultural and Forest Sciences, Oxford University.

• Leading green economy dialogues
• Global convenor of IIED's artisanal and small-scale mining dialogues
• Work on biodiversity mainstreaming in eight African countries
• Political and institutional challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)