Leadership
Our leaders are responsible and accountable for delivering IIED's strategy and key organisational objectives, and they meet regularly to make sure we're staying on track. Their experience spans diverse research areas ranging from forestry to communications research to governance.
Our leaders are part of one or more of three IIED teams that oversee our strategic and management work: the strategy and management team, the operations management team and the research strategy team.
- The strategy and management team is responsible for delivering our strategy and the cross-cutting institutional priority on governance for sustainable development
- The operations management team is responsible for the systems that are essential for delivering our strategy, and
- The research strategy team focuses on steering the content and maintaining oversight of our strategy.
The following members of staff comprise each leadership team:
Strategy and management team
- Tom Mitchell, executive director (chair)
- Nike Akerele-De Souza, chief operating officer
- James Persad, director, Communications
- Tom Bigg, director, Strategy and Learning
- James Mayers, director, Natural Resources
- Clare Shakya, director, Climate Change
- Laura Kelly, director, Shaping Sustainable Markets
- Lucy Earle, director (interim), Human Settlements
- Nicole Walsh, head of governance, Director's Group
- Aditya Bahadur, principal researcher, Human Settlements (observer, as chair of research strategy team)
Operations management team
- Nike Akerele-De Souza, chief operating officer (chair)
- Tom Mitchell, executive director
- Larissa Setaro, co-chair of the project management forum (Sally Ralph, co-chair of the project management forum as alternative)
- Julie Hill, group manager, Communications
- Juliette Tunstall, internal engagement and external events officer, Communications
- Catherine Baker, project manager, Strategy and Learning Group
- Group managers (Frances Reynolds, Human Settlements; Beth Henriette, Climate Change; Sally Ralph, Strategy and Learning Group)
- Maxine Harrington, head, People
- Leila Fazal, head of business development, Strategy and Learning Group
- Nicole Walsh, head of governance, Director's Group
- Morris Kagkwo, operations manager, Facilities
- Brian Barban, compliance manager, Director's Group
- Tom Cox, project management office manager, Director's Group
- David Gateshill, head, Finance
Research strategy team
- Aditya Bahadur, principal researcher, Human Settlements (chair)
- Alejandro Guarín, principal researcher, Shaping Sustainable Markets
- Tom Mitchell, executive director
- Tom Bigg, director, Strategy and Learning
- James Persad, director, Communications
- Rosalind Goodrich, head of research communications, Communications
- Duncan Macqueen, principal researcher, Natural Resources
- Paul Steele, chief economist, Shaping Sustainable Markets
- Florence Crick, senior researcher, Climate Change
- Nathaniah Jacobs, senior researcher, Natural Resources
- Fiona Roberts, programme manager, Climate Change
- Stefano D'Errico, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning manager, Strategy and Learning Group
- Tucker Landesman, senior researcher, Human Settlements
- Sam Barrett, researcher, Climate Change