Camilla Toulmin is Director of the International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED), having formerly run the Drylands Programme from 1987-2002.
Camilla Toulmin
Camilla Toulmin is Director of the International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED), having formerly run the Drylands Programme from 1987-2002.
An economist by training, her work has focused on social, economic, and environmental development in dryland Africa. This has combined field research, policy analysis, capacity building and advocacy, with strategic management of the programme. It has involved engaging with people at many different levels from farmers and researchers, to national governments, NGOs, donor agencies and international bodies.
Camilla has also worked with a number of multilateral agencies, such as the UN Development Programme, the Secretariat of the Convention to Combat Desertification, and the OECD. She has chaired and been a member of many committees handling research and development funds, such as WWF-UK, ISNAR, the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council, DFID’s Natural Resources Systems Programme, Oxfam and Comic Relief.
She is also involved incommunicating ideas and information about environment and development issues, through writing articles, giving talks, and broadcasts.