Steve Bass
Senior associate, Director's Group
- 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
- 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)
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.
English, French (basic) and Portuguese (basic)
Steve Bass's blog posts
IIED's Steve Bass proposes a 10-year review of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment as a guide for taking forward the Sustainable Development Goals.
As the mining sector gathers in South Africa for the annual Indaba meeting, Steve Bass suggests that ongoing purposeful dialogue could make a big difference in tackling the problems and potentials faced by the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector.
In the last five years the concepts of green growth and green economy have moved from fringe debates to mainstream policy. However, a divide is opening up between some large international institutions focusing on growth through green investment, and developing countries emphasising poverty reduction and equity through green policy innovation. The latest report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) attempts to bridges the divide.
Steve Bass's blog posts with other authors
Reconciling diverse visions of sustainable development will be key to SDG progress.