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Neil Bird
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Research Fellow and Acting Programme Leader
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Neil's present research focuses on international environmental policy, the evolving aid architecture and its relation to climate finance. At the national level, Neil's research interests include national budgetary processes, sector policies and the institutional development of environmental agencies. Prior to joining ODI, Neil worked as a long-term adviser within the national forest departments of Guyana, Belize and Ghana.
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David Brown
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Senior Research Associate
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David Brown specialises in work on tropical forest policy, particularly the institutional dimensions of community-based forest management and biodiversity conservation, and issues in environmental governance.
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Natasha Grist
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Research Fellow
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Natasha Grist specialises in climate change, adaptation and international development, with a background in social and environmental science. She focussed on links between climate change and sustainable development and the challenges to current models of development posed by climate change.
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Cecilia Luttrell
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Research Fellow
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Cecilia Luttrell’s main areas of research interest focus on access rights to natural resources, issues of livelihood vulnerability, poverty and adaptation, common property situations and the impacts of policy change on natural resource management and equity...
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Leo Peskett
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Research Fellow
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Leo has a background in climate change science and policy, and a longstanding interest in the implications of climate change on developing countries. His research interests include: understanding how carbon markets can be made more beneficial for the poor; understanding how policy processes at the international level, such as payments for reduced deforestation, can be translated into pro-poor national policy processes, and; identifying how climate change impacts can most efficiently and effectively be taken into account in development policy processes.
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Jessica Brown
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Research officer
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Jessica has a background in climate change policy, and is interested in the intersection of development and climate goals. Her research interests include carbon markets and their impacts on local development; reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD); international climate finance mechanisms; and the impact of national and international policy processes on both climate change and development. Jessica previously worked as an environmental consultant with California Environmental Associates based in San Francisco. She has a Masters degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and a Masters in Environmental Policy from Columbia University.
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Kate Schreckenberg
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Research Associate
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Kate Schreckenberg's main areas of research have been on the conservation-through-use of trees on farms, how to increase benefits for farmers from indigenous fruit trees, the development potential of non-timber forest products, participatory inventory and biodiversity conservation, and international tropical forest policy...
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Gill Shepherd
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Senior Research Associate
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Gill Shepherd specialises in problem-oriented, policy-relevant research and advice on forests, and has worked recently: on forests and poverty; on local people's forest conservation and management practices; and on the better harmonisation of livelihoods and biological diversity at a variety of scales, through sustainable use as well as preservation...
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Adrian Wells
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Research Fellow
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Adrian joined ODI in March 2001, and has been developing a number of research areas on environmental governance: he is currently involved in projects on forest law enforcement, and on the links between forests, poverty and decentralision...
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Francesca Iannini
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Programme Officer
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Francesca is responsible for all support activities related to the the CCEF programme and projects. She is responsible for all aspects of the programme administration, including funding, website development and publications.
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