Poverty & Public Policy Group

Geoff Handley (g.handley@odi.org.uk)
Research Officer

Public financial management; public-sector management and reform; aid effectivess.

Ed Hedger (E.Hedger@odi.org.uk)
Research Fellow

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Nick Highton (n.highton@odi.org.uk)
Programme Leader/Research Fellow

Hafsa Mahtab (H.Mahtab@odi.org.uk)
Project Administrator

Liesbet Steer (L.Steer@odi.org.uk)
Research Fellow

Cecilie Wathne (c.wathne@odi.org.uk)
Research Officer

David Booth (d.booth@odi.org.uk)
Research Fellow

Institutional issues in development and aid policy; aid modalities and the national policy process.

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Diana Cammack (d.cammack.ra@odi.org.uk)
Research Associate

Politics of aid and reform; neopatrimonialism; development and governance; national political economic analysis.

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Vikki Chambers (V.Chambers@odi.org.uk)
Research Officer

Vikki Chambers has a particular interest in governance and neo-patrimonialism with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa. She is a member of the ‘Africa Power and Politics Programme’ (APPP) which aims to identify forms of governance that work better for development and poverty reduction.

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Claire Dilliway (c.avery@odi.org.uk)
Project Administrator

Claire joined ODI as the Project Administrator for Politics and Governance in January 2007. She has a BSc in Environmental Sciences and an MA in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia.

Pilar Domingo (p.domingo@odi.org.uk)
Research Fellow

Pilar's research interests are: rule of law and justice sector reform; transitional justice in post-conflict or transitional societies; state-building in fragile situations; domestic accountability. She has expertise in Latin American politics, with special interest in Bolivia.

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Marta Foresti (m.foresti@odi.org.uk)
Programme Leader/Research Fellow

Marta's work focuses on social justice and rights, governance, fragile states and policy evaluation.

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Alan Hudson (A.hudson@odi.org.uk)
Research Fellow

Alan’s interests revolve around issues of governance and accountability. His exploration of these issues has involved work on civil society organisations, parliaments, aid/development agencies, aid effectiveness and policy coherence for development. Alan is interested in governance and accountability at local, national and global scales, and is particularly interested in the links between different scales of governance where notions and practices of sovereignty, jurisdiction and ownership are challenged.

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Timothy Othieno (t.othieno@odi.org.uk)
Research Fellow

Conflict analysis, peace building, fragile states and conflict management, African governance and politics (particularly the Horn of Africa and Eastern Africa), African international relations, South African foreign policy.

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Alina Rocha Menocal (A.rochamenocal@odi.org.uk)
Research Fellow

developmental state; international aid system; democratic governance; institution building; accountability; decentralisation; social policy; rule of law.

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Sonia Sezille (S.Sezille@odi.org.uk)
Programme Manager

Sonia has a background in international business and international development. Prior to joining PPPG at ODI, she managed development and emergency projects in Liberia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and LAOS-PDR focusing on post-crisis livelihood recovery including malnutrition, food security, water and sanitation, HIV prevention and rapid emergency response. Her current post focuses on the programme management of the Africa, Power and Politics Programme.

Bhavna Sharma (b.sharma@odi.org.uk)
Research Officer

Bhavna Sharma is a political economist with over 5 years development research and aid management experience. Her research interests are policy responses to state fragility, state-society relations, state building processes, domestic accountability and rights.

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Leni Wild (l.wild@odi.org.uk)
Research Officer

Leni Wild has a particular interest in governance, accountability and aspects of democracy promotion as well as aid and development effectiveness.

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Kate Bird (k.bird@odi.org.uk)
Programme Leader/Research Fellow

Kate is a micro-economist with a particular interest in poverty and chronic poverty, rural livelihoods, coping strategies and diversification.

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Ursula Grant (u.grant@odi.org.uk)
Research Officer

Usula is an Urban development specialist with 10 years experience in development research and policy. Her research work focuses on urban governance, urban violence, urban poverty and vulnerability, labour market exclusion and exploitation.

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Kate Higgins (k.higgins@odi.org.uk)
Research Officer

Kate is a political economist with over 5 years development research and aid management experience. Her research interests are policy responses to poverty reduction, pro-poor growth, labour markets and employment, chronic poverty and the intergenerational transmission of poverty, spatial poverty and the poverty impacts of conflict and forced migration. She has a strong interest in poverty and social impact analysis and monitoring and evaluation methodologies.

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Stephanie Levy (s.levy@odi.org.uk)
Research Fellow

Stephanie is a development economist with over 10 years of experience in rural development policies and pro-poor growth in Africa and South-East Asia. She has an extensive experience of modelling and policy analysis using simulation tools and quantitative analysis methods. Her current research focuses on pro-poor growth, food security, social protection, risk and vulnerability and natural resource booms.

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Tari Masamvu (T.Masamvu@odi.org.uk)
Project Administrator

Fiona Samuels (f.samuels@odi.org.uk)
Research Fellow

Fiona is a social anthropologist with over 15 years experience crossing the fields of public health and rural development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. She currently focuses on the linkages between HIV and AIDS, poverty, risk and vulnerability with a particular interest on livelihoods, food security, migration and access to services.

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Milo Vandemoortele (m.vandemoortele@odi.org.uk)
Research Officer

Milo is a development economist with several years experience in multi-disciplinary-research and policy. She currently focuses on equity as the interface between growth and poverty reduction and human development.

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Jessica Espey (j.espey@odi.org.uk)
Research Officer

Recent work includes research into the gender effectiveness of the Millennium Development Goals and sexual violence in educational settings. Jessica is a historian and has a Masters degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies in Violence, Conflict and Development and a regional focus in Sub-Saharan Africa. Research outputs over this year focused on rural violence, female sexual abuse, and issues of power and legitimacy amongst ‘traditional’ African institutions. She has a particular research interest in gender-related violence and cultural attitudes to female empowerment.

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Caroline Harper (c.harper@odi.org.uk)
Programme Leader/Research Fellow

Chronic poverty; childhood poverty and intergenerational poverty transfers; social development; participation; policy processes.

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Rebecca Holmes (r.holmes@odi.org.uk)
Research Officer

Social protection; gender and generational dynamics of poverty and vulnerability; agricultural growth and livelihoods; impacts and feasibility of cash transfers.

Nicola Jones (n.jones@odi.org.uk)
Programme Leader/Research Fellow

Nicola has a PhD in Political Science and is currently a Research Fellow in the Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) Group at ODI, where she heads a programme of research on knowledge, policy and power. She has a particular interest in social and poverty policies, and their impact on gender and generational relations, and thus works closely with the ODI Social Protection and Social Development Programmes.

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Tari Masamvu (T.Masamvu@odi.org.uk)
Project Administrator

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