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Diane Archer

Former IIED senior researcher

Full biography

Diane Archer was IIED's senior researcher until August 2018

Expertise

Urban climate change resilience, community-driven development, urban development, slum upgrading, Asian cities (particularly Thailand)

Before IIED
  • Project coordinator at the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) in Bangkok
  • PhD in Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, on the topic of social capital and participatory slum upgrading in Thailand.

Current work

Research on Asian cities and climate change; humanitarian response to crises in urban areas.

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Telephone: 
+44 (0) 20 3463 7399
Email: 
diane.archer@iied.org
Twitter: @BangkokDi
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Languages: English, English, French, Thai

Diane Archer's blog posts

Uganda’s capital city Kampala hosts 98,300 officially registered refugees from 25 countries (Photo: Morgan Schmorgan, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Kampala sets example for how cities can help refugees

Blog, Jun 2018
The UN estimates that a million Somalis were displaced during 2017. Many move to informal settlements on the fringes of the capital, Mogadishu (Photo: AMISOM Public Information via Wikimedia Commons)

Providing shelter in East African cities: what works?

Blog, Feb 2018
When infrastructure is not provided, or not affordable, the urban poor find their own way around the problem, as in Delhi, India, where electricity is tapped

Urban crisis response needs a humanitarian sector shake-up

Blog, Dec 2017
Nabaa Lebanon street scene

The future of humanitarian crises is urban: it’s time to urbanise crisis response

Long read, Nov 2017
Lebanon is hosting one million Syrian refugees, and around half of them are children. Most families live in makeshift shelters; some rent half-built apartments, sharing with two or three families (Photo: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)

Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities

Blog, May 2017
Informal settlements around Laguna Lake near Manila in the Philippines (Photo: Arlynn Aquino EU/ECHO, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Climate responsive cities: a road towards the 'New Urban Agenda'?

Blog, Nov 2016
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