The ODI Council
ODI is led by a Council, chaired by Dr Daleep Mukarji, with other members from across the world and various industries and sectors.
Members who are also on the ODI Board are marked with an asterisk (*).
* Dr. Daleep Mukarji OBE is the Chair of the ODI Board and Council. He was the world-wide Director for Christian Aid from 1988 to 2010. He began his career as a Doctor in a leprosy hospital in India and has been involved with a number of health and development related organisations since then.
Sir Mike Aaronson worked for 17 years with Save the Children UK, from which he retired as Chief Executive in 2005. He is Non-Executive Chairmen of Oxford Policy Management, Chairman of Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Chairman of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva. He is also a Civil Service Commissioner and a visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.
Hugh Bayley is a Labour MP and member of the International Development Select Committee, Chair of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank, and Chair of the Economic and Security Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
Professor Jo Beall is Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town. Former Professor of Development Studies at the London School of Economics.
Alan Beattie is World Trade Editor of the Financial Times. Prior to this he was an economist at the Bank of England.
Malcolm Bruce is Liberal Democrat MP and Chair of the International Development Select Committee. He is also Chair of Globe UK and President of Globe International.
Sir Suma Chakrabarti was appointed Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Justice in November 2007. He began his career as an ODI Fellow before working with the Overseas Development Administration, the Treasury and at the Cabinet Office. He became Permanent Secretary at the UK Department for International Development in 2002.
Tony Colman is the Director of the Africa Practice and is a former Labour MP. While in Parliament, he was a member of the International Development Select Committee.He is doing research in the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia.
* William Day is Chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission, Chairman of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), Special Advisor to UNDP, a Senior Associate of the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry and Sustainability Advisor to PwC.
Richard Dowden is Director of the Royal African Society and a writer and journalist on Africa. He is the former Africa Editor of The Independent and The Economist and worked on The Times. He is also author of Africa; Altered States, Ordinary Miracles published by Portobello Books.
Larry Elliott is Economics Editor at The Guardian. He is also on the editorial board of Catalyst and a visiting fellow at the University of Hertfordshire.
Professor Frank Ellis is Professor in agricultural economics at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia.
Professor Diane Elson is a member of the Department of Sociology and the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. She is a former member of the Millennium Project Task Force on MDG3 to Promote Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and was Special Advisor to the Executive Director at UNIFEM.She is a member of the Strategic Research Board of the Economic and Social Research Council.
Dr Ian Goldin is Director of the James Martin 21st Century School (University of Oxford). He was Director of Development Policy at the World Bank before becoming the Bank’s Vice President. Prior to that he was Chief Executive and Managing Director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and served as an adviser to President Nelson Mandela.
Dr Guy Goodwin-Gill is Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College and Professor of International Refugee Law at the University of Oxford. He is President of Refugee and Migrant Justice, and a Patron of AsylumAid in London.
Nik Gowing is the main programme anchor for BBC World News, the BBC’s 24-hour international TV news and information channel.
* Ann Grant is Vice Chairman of Standard Chartered Capital Markets Ltd. She was British High Commissioner to South Africa from 2000–2005.
Lord Michael Hastings is the Global Head of Citizenship and Diversity with KPMG. He was the BBC’s first Head of Corporate Social Responsibility. He is a non-executive Director for British Telecom on BT’s Board of Responsible and Sustainable Business. He is also a Trustee of the Vodafone Group Foundation and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Diversity and Talent.
Edward Hedger is an ODI Staff Member of Council. He is Head of the Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure.
* Isobel Hunter is an Independent Human Resources consultant with a particular focus on international organisations in the not-for-profit and public sector.
Baroness Margaret Jay is Senior Non-Executive Director of the Independent Media Group and a member of British Telecoms Corporate Social Responsibility Committee. She has been a Member of the House of Lords since 1992. She is the former Leader of the House of Lords, Minister for Health (1997-1998), and Minister for Women (1998-2001).
Sir Richard Jolly was the Director of IDS (1972–1981), then Deputy Executive Director for Programmes at UNICEF (1982–1995). He was the architect of UNDP’s Human Development Report for five years. He is a Research Associate at the Institute of Development Studies, working on human development and UN Intellectual History.
Baroness Glenys Kinnock of Holyhead was a Labour Party MEP from 1994 to 2009. She was awarded a life peerage when she joined the government in 2009 as Minister for Europe. She also served as Minister for Africa, the Caribbean, Central America and the UN.
* Richard Laing is Chief Executive of CDC Group plc, the UK’s bilateral Development Finance Institution. Prior to this, he held a number of positions at De La Rue plc in Brazil and the UK, latterly as Group Finance Director. He was also a non-executive Director of Camelot plc. He worked previously in agribusiness in developing countries, and at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Professor Anne Mills is Professor of Health Economics and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is also Director of the Health Economics and Financing Programme and Head of the Department of Public Health and Policy.
Sarah Mulley is Associate Director for Migration, Trade and Development at ippr. Before joining ippr, Sarah was Coordinator of the UK Aid Network. She was previously a Research Associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme in Oxford; worked as a consultant for a wide range of research and policy organisations; and was a Senior Policy Analyst at HM Treasury, where she held a range of domestic and international policy positions
Dr Robin Niblett is Director of Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Prior to this he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Washington-based Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS).
Nick Scott is an ODI Staff Council Member; he is ODI’s Communications Manager - Digital and Events.
Dr Diane Stone is a Professor in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. She is Professor of Public Policy at the Central European University in Budapest and Member, International Advisory Council, Policy Studies Organization in Washington DC.
Tidjane Thiam is Chief Executive of Prudential plc and former Chief Executive of Aviva Europe. He is also Non-executive Director of Arkema in France.
Lord Adair Turner, is Chairman of the Financial Services Authority and Chair of the Committee on Climate Change. Lord Turner is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Cass Business School, City University.
* Martin Tyler, is Director of Corporate Services with Amnesty International and has previously worked with the Fairtrade Foundation, the Princes Foundation and Christian Aid. He holds various other Trusteeships.
* Sue Unsworth is a Research Associate with the Governance Team at IDS, University of Sussex, and Principal with The Policy Practice. She was formerly Regional Director for Asia and subsequently Chief Governance Adviser at the Department for International Development.
* Stewart Wallis is Executive Director of nef (the new economics foundation). Prior to this he was at the World Bank before joining Oxfam as International Director in 1992.
* Chris West is the Director of the Shell Foundation. He has lived in both East and West Africa and has previously worked for DfID. Chris was involved in early discussions around the creation of the Shell Foundation and joined shortly after its launch in 2000 as Deputy Director. He also played a leading role in co-founding GroFin, which is now the leading provider of business development assistance and appropriate finance to start-up and growing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa. He was appointed SF Director in 2008.
