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The Forests, Environment and Climate Change Programme Team
Key contacts
David Brown
Programme Leader
d.brown@odi.org.uk
Francesca Iannini
Programme Administrator
f.iannini@odi.org.uk
 
Neil Bird Neil Bird
Research Fellow

Neil Bird’s research interests cover issues of environmental governance and sustainability.  The financing of public environmental actions and the practice of responsible forest management are current research themes. Prior to joining ODI, Neil worked as a long-term adviser within the national forest departments of Guyana, Belize and Ghana.

David Brown David Brown
Research Fellow and Progamme Leader
David Brown specialises in work on tropical forest policy, particularly the institutional dimensions of community-based forest management and biodiversity conservation, and issues in environmental governance.
Cecilia Luttrell Cecilia Luttrell
Research Fellow
Cecilia Luttrell’s main areas of research interest focus on access rights to natural resources, issues of livelihood vulnerability, poverty and adaptation, common property situations and the impacts of policy change on natural resource management and equity...
Leo Peskett Leo Peskett
Research Officer
Leo has a background in climate change science and policy, and a longstanding interest in the implications of climate change on developing countries. His research interests include: understanding how carbon markets can be made more beneficial for the poor; understanding how policy processes at the international level, such as payments for reduced deforestation, can be translated into pro-poor national policy processes, and; identifying how climate change impacts can most efficiently and effectively be taken into account in development policy processes.
Kate Schreckenberg Kate Schreckenberg
Research Associate
Kate Schreckenberg's main areas of research have been on the conservation-through-use of trees on farms, how to increase benefits for farmers from indigenous fruit trees, the development potential of non-timber forest products, participatory inventory and biodiversity conservation, and international tropical forest policy...
Gill Shepherd Gill Shepherd
Senior Research Associate
Gill Shepherd specialises in problem-oriented, policy-relevant research and advice on forests, and has worked recently: on forests and poverty; on local people's forest conservation and management practices; and on the better harmonisation of livelihoods and biological diversity at a variety of scales, through sustainable use as well as preservation...
Adrian Wells Adrian Wells
Research Fellow
Adrian joined ODI in March 2001, and has been developing a number of research areas on environmental governance: he is currently involved in projects on forest law enforcement, and on the links between forests, poverty and decentralision...
Francesca Iannini
Programme Administrator
Francesca is responsible for all administration and dissemination within the Programme and the first point of contact for enquiries. She is responsible for all aspects of the programme administration, including funding, website development, publications and projects.