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Steve Bass

Senior associate, Director's Group

Full biography
Expertise
  • 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

 

Before IIED

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.

Current work

  • 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)
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Telephone: 
+44 (0) 20 3463 7399
Email: 
steve.bass@iied.org
Languages: English, French (basic) and Portuguese (basic)

Steve Bass's blog posts

Testing the water in Kenya's Tana River watershed. The river's ecosystem is being affected by a range of factors. Public and private organisations are exploring ways to improve ecosystem management (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)

'Sustainable development science' for transforming our world

Blog, Oct 2015
A group of miners who are working the Kawa Ijen volcano in Java, Indonesia. The miners carry sulfur down the volcano and to the processing centre where the sulfur is weighed and the miner is paid (Photo: Adam Cohn, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Time to tell a new story about artisanal and small-scale mining: time for a new "indaba"

Blog, Feb 2015
Image of a solar panel, with light glinting off it.

Green Growth and equity must go hand in hand

Blog, Jun 2013

Three angles on 'green growth'

Blog, Jun 2011

Green economy – learning from the Caribbean

Blog, Mar 2011
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