ODI Council

Mike Aaronson Chair of the Board of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and Vice Chair of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. Associated with the 'Humanitarian Futures' programme as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Kings College London. Senior Concept Developer with NATO and former Director General (chief executive) of Save the Children from 1995-2005.

Tony Baldry Conservative MP, chaired the International Development Select Committee from 2001 to 2005.

Andrew Barnett Director of Policy Practice Limited, an economist with extensive experience of both energy and technology policy analysis in developing countries.

Hugh Bayley Labour MP and member of the International Development Select Committee. Member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, and Chair of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy.

Professor Jo Beall Professor of Development Studies at the London School of Economics; former director of Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics.

Alan Beattie World Trade Editor of the Financial Times. Former Bank of England economist.
Andrew Bennett Executive Director of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture and President of the Tropical Agricultural Association (UK).

Malcolm Bruce Liberal Democrat MP and Chair of the International Development Select Committee. Also Chair of Globe UK and President of Globe International.

Dominic Bruynseels Senior Executive Director for Emerging Markets for Barclays Bank South Africa. Executive Director and member of the board of Absa Group, South Africa’s leading retail bank.

Tony Colman Associate Director of the Africa Practice, African Investment Advisory and Africa Venture Capital Association. Former Labour MP.

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

Richard Dowden Director of the Royal African Society. A journalist, he has worked for The Times, and was Africa Editor of both The Independent and The Economist.

Larry Elliott Economics Editor at The Guardian.

Professor Frank Ellis Professor in agricultural economics at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia.

Professor Diane Elson Member of the Department of Sociology and the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. Former member of the Millennium Project Task Force on MDG3 to Promote Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment.

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

Ann Grant British High Commissioner to South Africa 2000–05. Joined Standard Chartered Bank as Vice Chairman, Standard Chartered Capital Markets Ltd in 2005.

Guy Goodwin-Gill Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Professor of International Refugee Law at the University of Oxford. President of the Refugee Legal Centre in London and Founding Editor of the International Journal of Refugee Law (Oxford University Press).

Isobel Hunter Independent Human Resources consultant. Particular focus on international organisations in the not for profit and public sector.

Baroness Margaret Jay Non-executive Director of British Telecom and the Independent Media Group. Member of the House of Lords since 1992 and Minister for Health (1997–8), member of the Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords, and Minister for Women (1998–2001).

Sir Richard Jolly Director of IDS (1972–81) before joining UNICEF as Deputy Executive Director for Programmes (1982–95). Architect of UNDP’s Human Development Report for five years. Since 2000, back at IDS, has been working on an intellectual history of the UN.

Richard Laing Chief Executive of CDC Group, a leading investor in private equity funds in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Michael Lipton Research Professor at the Poverty Research Unit, University of Sussex. Fellow of the British Academy, Advisory Committee of HarvestPlus and board of International Development Enterprises (UK).

Professor Anne Mills Professor of Health Economics and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Head of the Health Economics and Financing Programme and the Public Health and Policy department.

Baroness Lindsay Northover Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson
on International Development. Has served on the European Union Foreign Affairs, International Development and Defence Select Committees and is an officer of the Aid, Debt and Trade All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG).

Avinash Persaud Deputy chair of ODI. Chairman of Intelligence Capital, member of the Councils of the London School of Economics and Royal Economic Society, and Co-Chair of the OECD Emerging Markets Network.

Salil Shetty Director, UN Millennium Development Goals Campaign and former Chief Executive of ActionAid.

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

Tidjane Thiam Managing Director of Aviva International and a member of the Commission for Africa.

Lord Adair Turner Chair of ODI. Chairman of the Economic and Social Research Council. Non-executive Director of Standard Chartered PLC, Siemens Holdings plc, United Business Media plc, and Paternoster Ltd. Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and CASS Business School.

Sue Unsworth Research Associate with the Governance Team at IDS, University of Sussex. Principal with The Policy Practice. Formerly Regional Director for Asia and subsequently Chief Governance Adviser at the Department for International Development.

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

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

Ngaire Woods Fellow in Politics and International Relations, Dean of Graduates and Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme at University College, Oxford.