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Tom Bigg
Head, Strategy and Learning Group
International relations, international sustainable development governance, donor relations, reporting, monitoring and evaluation.
Relations with institutional funders, IIED strategy implementation and future development, monitoring and evaluation and learning across 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.
English
Tom Bigg's blog posts
A cross-party report finds the UK government is falling behind on its commitment to sustainability, but the election provides an opportunity for all parties to show the way forward.
One year on from the Sustainable Development Goals coming into effect, IIED asks whether the international consensus underpinning the goals is strong enough to drive the shift from vision to creating real political change.
"Leave no-one behind" has become a key phrase in interpreting the Sustainable Development Goals, but we should think carefully about what it implies.
The post-2015 sustainable development agenda promises a better future – but only if some awkward realities are confronted.
While the outcomes from Rio +20 may not currently give grounds for much optimism, its value is likely to be in longer-term changes in attitudes and understanding.
Tom Bigg's blog posts with other authors
Southern civil society organisations increasingly face numerous disruptive forces and are often effective sources of necessary disruption themselves. Halina Ward and Tom Bigg explore how funders can support these organisations in ever more uncertain times.