Who we are

REDAA is funded by UK International Development from the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and managed by IIED via the Scientific and Management Unit.

Scientific and Management Unit (SMU)

Steve Bass
Steve Bass

Senior associate

IIED

Janine Duffy
Janine Duffy

Researcher

IIED

Georgina Diaz Ibarz
Georgina Diaz Ibarz

Senior communications officer

IIED

Francesca Booker
Francesca Booker

Researcher

IIED

Dilys Roe
Dilys Roe

Principal researcher

IIED

David Sankar
David Sankar

Web services manager

IIED

Chris Brody
Chris Brody

Web services manager

IIED

Beth Downe
Beth Downe

Programme manager

IIED

Bénédicte Piton
Bénédicte Piton

Grants manager

IIED

Alasdair Brown
Alasdair Brown

Project manager

IIED

Independent Technical Advisory Panel (ITAP)

John Owino photo
John Owino

ITAP co-chair

IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Programme, Kenya

Zeenat Niazi photo
Zeenat Niazi

Development Alternatives, India

Kate Schreckenberg photo
Kate Schreckenberg

King’s College London, United Kingdom

Jean-Marc Mwenge Kahinda photo
Jean-Marc Mwenge Kahinda

University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Femy Pinto photo
Femy Pinto

ITAP co-chair

Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme (NTFP-EP) Asia, Philippines

Eliane Reid photo
Eliane Reid

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Steering committee

Jonathan Hassall

Steering Committee Chair & REDAA Senior Responsible Owner (SRO)

Environment Research Lead, Research and Evidence Directorate

UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

John Owino

ITAP co-chair

IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Programme, Kenya

Tim Sumner

UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

Simon Kerley

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

Sarah Ratcliffe

UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

Sarah Blackburn

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

Kim Fuggle

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Ian Stanton

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Femy Pinto

ITAP co-chair

Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme (NTFP-EP) Asia, Philippines