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Team list and contact details

The RAPID team pulls its strength from its diversity, flexibility and close cooperation. Our disciplinary backgrounds range from the biological and physical sciences to the social and political. We are a global team with experience and established partnerships in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean.

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

 

Alice Barling-Gasson

Alice Barling-Gasson Programme Officer

Chloe Byrne

Chloe Byrne Programme Officer

  • 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 Cassidy RAPID - Communications Officer

Ajoy Datta

Ajoy Datta Research Officer

  • Ajoy contributes to RAPID's understanding of the political economy of research uptake with a focus on the role of think tanks (or policy research organisations) in developing countries. and provides technical support on developing and implementing policy engagement strategies (including research communication). He is also increasingly providing advice on monitoring and evaluating policy engagement.

Maren Duvendack

Maren Duvendack Research Fellow

Simon Hearn

Simon Hearn Research Officer

Sarah Hunt

Sarah Hunt Programme Officer

Harry Jones

Harry Jones Research Fellow

Cecilia Oppenheim

Cecilia Oppenheim EBPDN Coordinator

Arnaldo Pellini

Arnaldo Pellini Research Associate

Louise Shaxson

Louise Shaxson Research Fellow

Tristan Stubbs

Tristan Stubbs CDKN Global Communications Officer

Fletcher Tembo

Fletcher Tembo Research Fellow

John Young

John Young Director of impact Assessment, Partnerships and RAPID