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Team list and contact details

We are a multidisciplinary team with a broad range of experience.

To find out more about a team member, click on their name below.

 

Head of Programme

Edward Hedger

Edward Hedger Head of Programme

Programme Officer

Hafsa Mahtab

Hafsa Mahtab Programme Officer

Rest of the team

Richard Allen

Richard Allen Senior Research Associate

Geraldine Baudienville

Geraldine Baudienville Research Associate

Paolo de Renzio

Paolo de Renzio Research Associate

Ryan Flynn

Ryan Flynn Communications Officer

Mick Foster

Mick Foster Senior Research Associate

Mikaela Gavas

Mikaela Gavas Research Associate

Matthew Geddes

Matthew Geddes Research Officer

Jonathan Glennie

Jonathan Glennie Research Fellow

Romilly Greenhill

Romilly Greenhill Research Fellow

Sian Herbert

Sian Herbert Research/Project Officer

Maia King

Maia King Research Officer

  • Maia King joined ODI in November 2010, after completing an ODI Fellowship in the Ministry of Finance, Liberia and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Madagascar. Maia is an economist with expertise in macroeconomic and fiscal policy and analysis, public financial management reform, private sector development and tax policy. Prior to her ODI Fellowship, Maia worked as an economist and policy advisor at the UK Treasury.

Claire Leigh

Claire Leigh Head of Budget Strengthening Initiative - Strategic Operations a

  • Claire joined ODI as Head of BSI - Strategic Operations and Development in December 2011. Between 2009 and 2011 she worked for Tony Blair's Africa Governance Initiative, providing advice to the Presidents of Liberia and Rwanda.
    Claire previously worked as a Senior Policy Advisor in Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Strategy Unit, and for the British Foreign Office, UNICEF and Deloitte Consulting.

Marcus Manuel

Marcus Manuel Director of Budget Strengthening Initiative

Mafalda Marchioro

Mafalda Marchioro Project Officer - BSI

Simon Maxwell

Simon Maxwell Senior Research Associate

Alastair McKechnie

Alastair McKechnie Senior Research Associate

  • Former World Bank director for fragile states unit and Country Director for Afghanistan. Spent 28 years in assignments at the World Bank including regional operations director for South Asia and infrastructure manager for the Middle East.

Sonsoles Montosa

Sonsoles Montosa Administration Assistant - Budget Strengthening Initiative

Annalisa Prizzon

Annalisa Prizzon Research Officer

  • Annalisa Prizzon is a Research Officer within CAPE working particularly on development finance issues. She has been an economist at the OECD Development Centre, working on the ‘Perspectives on Global Development’ reports. She was previously a consultant with the World Bank. She holds a PhD in Economics and Public Finance with a focus on external debt sustainability in low-income countries.

Andrew Rogerson

Andrew Rogerson Senior Research Associate

Rebecca Simson

Research Officer

  • Rebecca Simson joined ODI in January 2012 as a Research Officer with the Budget Strengthening Initiative. She specializes in public financial management and aid effectiveness in fragile states. She has previously worked for the World Bank in Liberia and Uganda and the International Growth Centre in Sierra Leone on economic policy and public sector reform issues.

Liesbet Steer

Liesbet Steer Research Associate

Heidi Tavakoli

Heidi Tavakoli Research Fellow

Helena Turgel

Helena Turgel BSI Project Manager

Tim Williamson

Research Associate

  • Tim Williamson is an economist who has experience of working in the Ministry of Finance, Planning & Economic Development in Uganda. Tim has been one of the key drivers of the Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, and is now based back in Uganda. His key areas of specialist knowledge include pro-poor public expenditure management and fiscal decentralisation.