Research and Policy in Development Staff
Chloe Byrne
Chloe joined ODI as RAPID Project Administrator in March 2008. She provides administrative, budgeting, secretarial and editorial support to the RAPID team. She is also the coordinator for the COPLA project on Trade and Poverty in Latin America which explores the linkages between trade, poverty and social exclusion in Latin America.
Caroline Cassidy
Caroline is the RAPID Communications Research Officer, specialising in research communications, research uptake and knowledge management.
Ajoy Datta
Ajoy's expertise lie in understanding policy processes and knowledge use; knowledge interaction processes (including research communications, knowledge brokering, policy influence work and public engagement processes), key intermediaries (such as think tanks, networks and legislators), and sustainably developing capacities of human systems to produce, consider and use knowledge for policymaking.
Maren Duvendack
Maren is currently a Research Fellow in the RAPID group. She has an interest in rigorous impact evaluations, microfinance, replication and applied micro-econometrics.
Simon Hearn
Sarah Hunt
As the GTF Programme Officer, Sarah facilitates the flow of information across the various ODI teams and the key southern partners, including CIVICUS, IPS, and the National Coordination Organisations in seven African countries.
Harry Jones
Harry joined the ODI in 2006. He is a research fellow in RAPID, looking at the role of knowledge in policy processes in developing countries
Cecilia Oppenheim
Cecilia is the Programme Manager for the DFID - ESRC Growth Research Programme (DEGP).
Tiina Pasanen
Tiina joined RAPID in October 2012 as a Research Officer and is currently working with the Methods Lab, a project focusing on testing and developing impact evaluation approaches and methods.
Arnaldo Pellini
Arnaldo is an economist with a specialization decentralization and local governance reforms, community participation in local governance and service provision, in particular education, and evidence-based policy influencing processes
Louise Shaxson
Jessica Sinclair Taylor
Jessica implements communcations for the Mwananchi Programme and the RAPID team.
Josephine Tsui
Research Associates
Geoff Barnard
Fletcher Tembo
Fletcher Tembo is a Research Fellow within RAPID. He manages the Mwanainchi Governance and Transparency Programme, working with partners in eight African countries to strengthen citizen engagement in policy processes. He also coordinates relations with DAI; ODI inputs into Kenya Drivers of Accountability; and Evidence Based Policy in Development Network- Africa region




















