Professor Lawrence Haddad is the Director of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, and the current President of the UK and Ireland's Development Studies Association. He is an economist and his main research interests are at the intersection of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition. He is a member of the Lead Expert Group for the UK Government Foresight Programme.
He was formerly a Research Director of the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC. He has also lectured in Development Economics at the University of Warwick and was Adjunct Professor in Rural Livelihoods at John Hopkins University. His field research has been in the Philippines, India and South Africa. He has a PhD from Stanford University.
Professor Haddad has undertaken a large number of consultancies for international NGOs and multilateral organisations. Recent examples of his work include directing a project for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to measure the effectiveness of development programmes to support agriculture and food security; an analysis of the current state of food insecurity in the world for the FAO, and working with Save the Children UK to review UK and EC efforts to tackle undernutrition. The latter has influenced recent DFID and EC strategies on nutrition. He has also written extensively on food security and undernutrition, including the recently published IDS Bulletin 'Lifting the Curse: Overcoming Persistent Undernutrition in India', IDS Bulletin 40.4, Haddad, L. and Zeitlyn, S. (2009).
Dana Hovig was appointed as the chief executive of Marie Stopes International (MSI) in January 2007. As chief executive of one of the largest family planning and reproductive health organisations in the world, Dana is responsible for strategic and operational leadership of MSI's UK and international divisions; organisation development; high level representation with donors, partners and key stakeholders; and programme development, oversight and support. Prior to his appointment as chief executive, Dana served as deputy chief executive of MSI for two years.
Dana is a recognised world leader in social marketing, social franchising, and behaviour change communications. He has managed one of the world's largest social marketing and clinic franchising programmes in Pakistan, and provided technical assistance and consultancy services in social marketing and social franchising on five continents. Prior to joining MSI, Dana spent 11 years at Population Services International (PSI), where he oversaw and provided technical assistance to over 35 social marketing programmes all over the world in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention, family planning, maternal health, child health and nutrition.
Dana sits on the board of directors of DKT and several of MSI's partners worldwide. Dana holds a MSc in international political economy from the London School of Economics and BA in economics from the University of Notre Dame in the US.
Caroline Nursey is director of the BBC World Service Trust (WST) - the BBC's international development charity. The WST uses media and communciations to transform lives. It employs drama, debate and factual programming, and commercial advertisements across radio, TV, mobiles and itnernet platforms to provide information and provoke debate on health, governance, climate change and livelihoods issues and to support those affected by humanitarian emergencies. Through training for journalists and strengthening public service broadcasting, it helps hold governments to account and promote democracy. All the work is underpinned by research that both shapes the projects and allows WST to measure the impact of its work.
Caroline joined the WST in March 2009 from Oxfam GB, where she held a number of director-level roles based both at Oxfam HQ and in the field.
Ellen Wratten is the Deputy Managing Director of Girl Hub, a new public-private partnership between the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID) and the Nike Foundation. Girl Hub works with adolescent girls, developing world decision makers and donors to unleash the girl effect at scale
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Ellen began her development career as a development planner and researcher, working in the Caribbean, Egypt and Kenya. She has been a lecturer in social policy and development planning at the London School of Economics and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1995 Ellen has worked with DFID, most recently as Acting Director of Policy and Head of Profession for Social Development. She has held secondments to the Directorate General for Development, European Commission in Brussels; and to the International Poverty Reduction Team in HM Treasury.
Jimmy Whitworth joined the Wellcome Trust as Head of International Activities within the Science Funding Division in 2004. He is responsible for strategy, policy and developing the scientific portfolio for research in low and middle income countries. Previously he was Professor of International Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
He is a physician, qualifying from Liverpool University in 1979, and obtaining MRCP in 1983. He attended the DTM&H course at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1985 where he was awarded the Blacklock Medal for Parasitology and Entomology. He specialises in infectious diseases, epidemiology and public health. Previous roles include working in The Gambia for Save The Children Fund on providing primary and secondary health care for Upper River Division. Subsequently he led investigations into ivermectin for onchocerciasis in Sierra Leone for the Medical Research Council, work for which he was awarded an MD with distinction in 1993. He was Team Leader for the Medical Research Council Programme on AIDS, based at the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, from 1995 until 2002.
When not living and working in Africa, Jimmy has been an academic staff member, specialising in HIV and vector borne parasitic diseases, at both the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
