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> Shaping Sustainable Markets research group

Laura Kelly

Director, Shaping Sustainable Markets

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Expertise

Senior-level leadership and management experience from government, NGOs and think tanks, delivering programmes and policy change on complex issues including trade and private sector, agriculture and humanitarian emergencies. Expertise in trade and agricultural markets. High-level networks across governments, private sector, international organisations and NGOs.

Before IIED

Most recently led the inclusive and responsible business agenda in the Department for International Development. Promoting and supporting private sector activity in support of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Current work

Oversight of the Shaping Sustainable Markets research group at IIED. Supporting and developing work on inclusive and green economies, that leave no one behind. Includes workstreams on improving access to energy, resilient marine ecosystems, valuing natural capital, improving food security, artisanal and small-scale mining. The Green Economy Coalition, hosted by IIED, also sits within the group.

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Telephone: 
+44 (0)20 3463 7399
Email: 
laura.kelly@iied.org
Twitter: @LauraKellyIIED
Languages: English, French (basic), Spanish (basic), Swedish (basic)

Laura Kelly's projects

Fishermen dragging a net out of a river.

Debt swaps for climate and nature outcomes in West Africa

Project, Feb 2021
A deep-sea fishing trawler

Helping the LDCs negotiate the high seas

Project, May 2018

Latest publications

Financing an inclusive, green recovery in Least Developed Countries: debt instruments for climate and nature

Innovative financing for Africa: harnessing debt for climate and nature

Financement innovant pour l'Afrique: exploiter la dette en faveur du climat et de la nature

Navigating ocean investments

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Laura Kelly's blog posts

A close-up photo of a row of Dove soap bottles, focusing on the first bottle with others in a column behind.

Addressing the ‘triple crisis’ COVID-19, climate change and nature loss: a catalyst for business to increase its sustainability?

Blog, Sep 2021
Two women sewing face masks

Business with purpose in the era of COVID-19

Blog, May 2020
Seedlings. Impact investing directs investment capital to enterprises delivering positive environmental and social impacts, and could play an important role in financing sustainable development (Photo: Geoff Maddock, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Business as usual – or business with purpose?

Blog, Apr 2019
CANARI’s Radar tool helps small and micro enterprises assess their impacts. Here Kemba Jaramogi from Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project in Trinidad and Tobago presents their Radar. (Photo: CANARI)

Time to turn the PAGE?

Blog, Jan 2019
Fishing in Kenya's Lake Naivasha provides income for local people, but fish stocks have declined sharply due to over-fishing and the diversion of water for agriculture (Photo: Cheryl Q, Creative Commons via Flicker)

Green lessons for the blue economy

Blog, Dec 2018
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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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