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Tom Bigg

Director, Strategy and Learning Group

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Expertise

International relations, international sustainable development governance, donor relations, reporting, monitoring and evaluation.

Before IIED

Head of policy, United Nations Environment and Development UK Committee (UNED-UK).

Education: BA (English) Oxford, PhD (Civil Society and Global Politics), City University, London.

Current work

Relations with institutional funders, IIED strategy implementation and future development, monitoring and evaluation and learning across IIED.

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Latest publications

Grounding Post-2015 Frameworks in Regional, National and Local Contexts

The post-2015 development framework: Priorities for the least developed countries

From ‘Fair ideas’ to mainstream change

Beyond Rio+20: Governance for a green economy

MDGs Conference 2005 - Documents

Linking Corporate Social Responsibility, Good Governance and Corporate Accountability Through Dialogue

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Tom Bigg's blog posts

The UK flag and the logo for the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable development in the UK – an issue for party manifestos?

Blog, May 2017
Colombia's government and left-wing insurgents sign a historic agreement ending 52 years of conflict. Some commentators suggest the peace process has opened the way for major progress on the SDGs (Photo: Gobierno de Chile, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)

SDGs: from adopted framework to political force for change

Blog, Feb 2017
Building an embankment in the Bay of Bengal. Bangladesh has been forced to learn how to cope with the realities of climate change (Photo: Espen Rasmussen/PANOS)

Does "leave no-one behind" risk too narrow a focus?

Blog, Mar 2016
Modern energy services are crucial to economic development. In Afghanistan, less than 10 per cent of the population has access to the electricity grid. French NGO GERES has been working to introduce low-cost passive solar building designs, reducing fuel poverty (Photo: Oriane Zera, GERES, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Facing up to the awkward realities of the post-2015 agenda

Blog, Jan 2015
A man points his finger at someone in a meeting room at a debate at a meeting on the sustainable development of the Amazon at Rio+20.

Five things we’ve learnt from Rio+20

Blog, Jul 2012
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