Members who are also on the ODI Board are marked with an asterisk (*).

Mike Aaronson
Mike Aaronson, Civil Service Commissioner.  Chairman of Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.  External Director of Oxford Policy Management Ltd.  Non-Executive Director of Corporates for Crisis Ltd.  Chair of the Board at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (to July 2008).  Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.  Senior Concept Developer with NATO (ACT).  Chief Executive Save the Children UK 1995-2005.   

Tony Baldry MP
Tony Baldry is a Conservative MP who chaired the International Development Select Committee from 2001 to 2005

Andrew Barnett *
Andrew Barnett is Director of The Policy Practice Limited and an economist with over 25 years of experience in developing countries of both energy and technology policy analysis.

Hugh Bayley MP
Hugh Bayley is a Labour MP and a member of the International Development Select Committee since 2001. He is also a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, and chairs the Westminster Foundation for Democracy.

Professor Jo Beall *
Professor Jo Beall Professor of Development Studies at the London School of Economics; former director of Development Studies Institute, LSE.  A political sociologist, she is a specialist on development policy, urban governance and social development.

Alan Beattie
Alan Beattie is the World Trade Editor of the Financial Times, leading its coverage of trade policy and economic globalisation and writing on development, aid and poverty. Previously a Bank of England economist, Alan holds a Cambridge master’s degree in economics and an Oxford BA in history.

Malcolm Bruce MP
Malcolm Bruce is a Liberal Democrat MP and is the chair of the International Development Select Committee.  He is also the Chair of Globe UK and the President of Globe International.

Sir Suma Chakrabarti
Sir Suma Chakrabarti is the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Justice.

Tony Colman
Tony Colman is the Director of the Africa Practice and a former MP.

William Day *
William Day is a Special Advisor to the UNDP and a Senior Associate of the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry.  He is also Chairman of WSUP (Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor).

Richard Dowden
Richard Dowden is the Director of the Royal Africa Society. He is a writer and journalist on Africa and former Africa Editor of The Independent and The Economist and worked on The Times.  His book Africa; Altered Stated, Ordinary Miracles is published September 2008.

Larry Elliott
Larry Elliott is the Economics Editor at The Guardian newspaper.

Professor Frank Ellis
Frank Ellis is a Professor in the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, and has focused during his career on agricultural policy, agrarian change, rural livelihoods, and, more recently, social protection to overcome chronic vulnerability in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Professor Diane Elson
Professor Diane Elson is a member of the Department of Sociology and the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. She has published widely on gender and development, most recently on gender equality and government budgets. She was a member of the Millennium Project TaskForce on MDG3 Promote Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment.

Dr Ian Goldin
Dr Ian Goldin is the Director of the James Martin 21st Century School (University of Oxford).  Previously he was Vice President of the World Bank (2003-2006) and prior to that the Bank's Director of Development Policy (2001-2003).

Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill
Guy S. Goodwin Gill is a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Professor of International Refugee Law in the University of Oxford.  He was formerly Professor of Asylum Law at the University of Amsterdam, and served as a Legal Adviser in the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in various countries from 1976-1988. Since 1997, he has been President of the Refugee Legal Centre (a UK non-governmental organization) and is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Refugee Law (Oxford University Press).

Nik Gowing
Main Programme Anchor for the BBC’s 24-hour international TV news and information channel BBC World News.

Ann Grant *
Ann Grant was British High Commissioner to South Africa from 2000-2005, and joined Standard Chartered Bank as Vice Chairman, Standard Chartered Capital Markets Ltd in June 2005.

Lisa Harker
Lisa Harker is co-director of IPPR.  She works as a policy adviser, researcher and writer, specialising primarily in issues related to families, poverty and social exclusion.  She recently held the position of independent advisor on child poverty to the Department for Work and Pensions. 

Lord Michael Hastings
Michael Hastings is the Global Head of Citizenship and Diversity with KPMG – leading both areas of strategy for KPMG International and working directly with KPMG’s International Chairman Tim Flynn and CEO Mike Wareing.  Previously he was the BBC’s first Head of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Isobel Hunter *
Isobel Hunter is an Independent Human Resources consultant with particular focus on international organisations in the not for profit and public sector.

Baroness Margaret Jay
Baroness Jay is a non-executive director of British Telecom and the Independent Media Group.  She has been a Member of the House of Lords since 1992 and was a Minister for Health from 1997 to 1998; a Member of the Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords, and Minister for Women from 1998 – 2001.

Sir Richard Jolly
Sir Richard was the Director of IDS (1972-81) before joining UNICEF as Deputy Executive Director for Programmes (1982-95).  He was the architect of UNDP’s Human Development Report for five years.  Since 2000, back at IDS as a Research Associate, working on human development and on the UN Intellectual History.

Richard Laing *
Richard Laing is the Chief Executive of CDC Group plc, the UK’s bi-lateral Development Finance Institution which is a leading investor in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia and Latin America, placing its £2½ billion of capital with a series of fund managers in those markets.

Professor Michael Lipton *
Michael Lipton is a Research Professor at the Poverty Research Unit at the University of Sussex.  He is also a Fellow of the British Academy; CMG and is on the Advisory Committee of HarvestPlus and the Board of International Development Enterprises (UK).  He is currently completing a book on land reform (publication Spring 2009).

David Mepham
David Mepham is Director of Policy at Save the Children, UK.  He was previously Associate Director and Head of International Programme at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). 

Professor Anne Mills
Anne Mills is Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  She is Head of the Health Economics and Financing Programme and Head of the Public Health & Policy Department.

Dr Robin Niblett
Dr Robin Niblett is the Director of Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs).  Before joining Chatham House, from 2001 to 2006, Dr Niblett was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Washington-based Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), one of America's largest and most influential foreign policy think tanks.

Baroness Lindsay Northover
Baroness Northover is the Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson on International Development.  She has served on the EU Foreign Affairs, International Development and Defence Select Committee and is an officer of the All Party Group on Overseas Development, Executive member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and a Trustee of the Tropical Health and Educational Trust (THET).

Avinash Persaud *
Avinash Persaud is the Deputy Chair of ODI.  He is a banker and Director of three investment boutiques in India, UK and Barbados.  He is a member of the Councils of the London School of Economics and Royal Economic Society.  He is Co-Chair of the OECD Emerging Markets Network.  He is Emeritus Professor of Gresham College.

Salil Shetty
Salil Shetty is the Director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign and former Chief Executive of ActionAid.

Dr Diane Stone
Diane Stone, Marie Curie Chair and Professor of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest; Professor, Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick; and Chair, Researchers Alliance for Development.

Tidjane Thiam
Tidjane Thiam is the Executive Director of Prudential and Chief Financial Officer.  A non-executive director of Arkema in France and a sponsor of Opportunity International, a charity focusing on microfinance in developing countries. 

Lord Adair Turner *
Adair Lord Turner of Ecchinswell has combined careers in business, public policy and academia.  He is currently the Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, and since January 2008 Chair of the Climate Change Committee. Lord Turner is also Chairman of the Overseas Development Institute. He is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and at Cass Business School, City University.

Sue Unsworth *
Sue Unsworth is a Research Associate with the governance team at IDS Sussex and Principal with The Policy Practice.  She was formerly Regional Director for Asia and subsequently Chief Governance Adviser at DFID.

Stewart Wallis *
Stewart Wallis is the Executive Director of nef (the new economics foundation).  He spent seven years at the World Bank before joining Oxfam in 1992 as International Director.

Baroness Janet Whitaker *
Baroness Whitaker is Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Overseas Development and on Ethiopia, and of the Parliamentary Labour Party International Development Committee.  She is currently the Labour Party International Development Liaison Peer.

Ngaire Woods
Ngaire Woods is the Professor of International Political Economy, Oxford University and Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme at University College, Oxford.