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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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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 young people, men and women, walk in line holding protest signs (saying things such as "fight for our future") as part of a march

Stockholm+50: priorities for re-energising global action

Blog, Jun 2022
Tank truck driving along a road between fields of yellow flowers

Responses to Putin’s war risk impeding international cooperation on climate

Blog, Mar 2022
Five chimneys. Two of them releasing smoke.

Why the ‘climate club’ needs to take on investment rules

Blog, Mar 2022
A woman carries jerrycans and tree men behind her wear masks and red vests with a red cross in the back

Applying the lessons of COVID-19 to the climate crisis

Blog, Feb 2022
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
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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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