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Andrew Norton

Director

Andrew Norton is director of IIED. He is an applied anthropologist working on a range of issues related to social and environmental justice. He oversees the implementation of IIED’s five-year strategy focused on addressing five interlocking crises – climate, biodiversity loss, inequality, urban risk and unsustainable markets. His recent work focuses on social policy and climate resilience, labour guarantees and ecosystem stewardship, and automation and inequality. Major areas of focus over recent years include framing the social dimensions of climate change and participatory research on poverty and inequality.
Full biography

His career spans both research and operational roles in academic and development contexts. He has worked extensively on the social dimensions of climate change, poverty, gender and social analysis, social policy and human rights in development practice.

Andrew has experience of working in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Expertise

Climate change; natural resource governance; social policy; social inclusion; human rights; poverty; gender; social analysis; and urban social change. 

Before IIED
  • Director of research for the Overseas Development Institute
  • Lead social scientist in the World Bank
  • Head of social development for the UK Department for International Development (DFID)
  • Doctoral fieldwork in Mali

Current work

Oversees the full range of IIED's policy and action research activities; particularly focused on the politics and social dimensions of climate change and climate action.

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andrew.norton@iied.org
Twitter: @andynortondev
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Languages: English, French and Bambara

Latest publications

What drives safeguarding for China’s hydropower projects in LDCs?

Harnessing employment-based social assistance programmes to scale up nature-based climate action

Building resilience to climate change through social protection: Lessons from MGNREGS, India

Building resilience to climate change through social protection: Lessons from MGNREGS, India

Building resilience to climate change: MGNREGS and climate-induced droughts in Sikkim

Building resilience to climate change: MGNREGS and climate-induced droughts in Sikkim

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Andrew Norton's blog posts

A group of women laugh and smile as they stand and dip their hands into two large buckets on a table

Starting a journey – reflections on race and racism and the work to do in our organisations and our sector

Blog, Dec 2021
People of all ages marching holding posters. One poster reads "protect all like on our planet"; another poster reads "no more blah blah blah"

COP27 and the important year ahead

Blog, Nov 2021
A solitary tree on an island surrounded by water. Some people and cattle stand and sit underneath the tree.

Climate-induced migration illustrates loss and damage already being felt by communities

Blog, Oct 2021
A wildfire burns a forest. A man climbs a fire engine and another one, wearing a mask, walk on the road.

Sounding the alarm: new IPCC report reinforces urgency for G20 to take stronger climate action

Blog, Aug 2021
A large audience sits in a cricualr room, facing a man behind a lectern. The UN logo is printed on the wall.

Is COP26 back on track? The UN General Assembly will be a pivotal moment

Blog, Jul 2021
Earth from space

Fifty years on, 'Only One Earth' rings true

Blog, Jun 2021
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Links to other sites

Strengthening development in the face of the climate crisis and environmental destruction

IIED blog with Jorge Moreira da Silva, October 2019

Climate Resilience through Social Protection (PDF)

Global Center on Adaptation, 2019

The Social Dimensions of Climate Change: Equity and Vulnerability in a Warming World

The World Bank, December 2009

Building Equality and Opportunity through Social Guarantees: New Approaches to Public Policy and the Realization of Rights

The World Bank, June 2009

 
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50 years linking local to global

Find out more about IIED’s plans in our 50th birthday year: our achievements and what comes next…

IIED's mission is to build a fairer, more sustainable world, using evidence, action and influence in partnership with others. We link local priorities and global challenges, and our 2019-2024 strategy details how we will Make Change Happen

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