Tom Bigg

Director, Strategy and Learning Group

Full biography

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.

Interviews

IIED expert interviews: Tom Bigg

Recent publications

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

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From ‘Fair ideas’ to mainstream change

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Beyond Rio+20: Governance for a green economy

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How to Make Poverty History: The central role of local organisations in meeting the Millennium Development Goals

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How to Make Poverty History: The central role of local organizations in meeting the MDGs

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MDGs Conference 2005 - Documents

Tom Bigg's blog posts

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

Video: Tom Bigg talks about the objectives of the Fair ideas event

Blog, Jun 2012

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