Dr Camilla Toulmin has worked mainly in Africa, on decentralisation, governance and land tenure issues. Her recent work included research on changing rights to land in West Africa, livelihoods and poverty in Mali, challenges and opportunities relating to decentralisation, and collective management of common resources. She joined IIED in 1987, to set up the Drylands Programme, having formerly worked for the International Livestock Research Institute and the Overseas Development Institute. She was a member of the International Expert Panel supporting the preparation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification and has worked with a large number of development agencies.
She studied Economics at Cambridge and London, before gaining her doctorate in Economics at Oxford. Her thesis examined household and livelihood strategies of Bambara farmers in central Mali (Cattle, Women and Wells, OUP 1992).
Camilla is fluent in English and French. She has been a member of several boards, including ISNAR, the Scientific Committee of the Agricultural Policy Network in West and Central Africa, Economic and Social Research Council, Comic Relief and the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Camilla became a Senior Fellow of IIED in 2002 and was appointed acting Director in July 2003. She was appointed to be Director of IIED, following a competitive recruitment process in February 2004. Camilla, 49, is married with three teenage children.
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She studied Economics at Cambridge and London, before gaining her doctorate in Economics at Oxford. Her thesis examined household and livelihood strategies of Bambara farmers in central Mali (Cattle, Women and Wells, OUP 1992).
Camilla is fluent in English and French. She has been a member of several boards, including ISNAR, the Scientific Committee of the Agricultural Policy Network in West and Central Africa, Economic and Social Research Council, Comic Relief and the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Camilla became a Senior Fellow of IIED in 2002 and was appointed acting Director in July 2003. She was appointed to be Director of IIED, following a competitive recruitment process in February 2004. Camilla, 49, is married with three teenage children.
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is an independent, non-profit research institute working in the field of sustainable development. IIED aims to provide expertise and leadership in researching and achieving sustainable development at local, national, regional and global levels. In alliance with others, we seek to help shape a future that ends global poverty and delivers and sustains efficient and equitable management of the world's natural resources