Leo joined the LEAD team in August 2011 and has been working on the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), initially within the Global Partnerships team, and latterly as a project manager within CDKN's Negotiations Support team. Previous work has included assisting in the coordination of the CDKN Innovation Fund and Low Emissions Development Strategies (LEDS) initiative, contributing to CDKN learning strategies, and managing the redevelopment of COMPASS and the CDKN Roster of Experts. Currently, Leo manages a large portfolio of projects providing support and capacity building to climate negotiators and policy-makers from some of the poorest and world's most climate-vulnerable countries within international climate negotiations.
Leo graduated from the University of Sheffield with a BA in Human Geography and an MA in International Development. Through his MA, Leo began to specialise in the relationship between climate change and development. He has spent time conducting field research in Kenya and Guatemala, examining rural livelihood adaptation to climate change, the impacts of the Fairtrade movement on rural coffee farmers. Leo has also spent time working on monitoring the international trade in endangered species at Defra, writing parliamentary responses for MPs at DfID, and in a paralegal capacity at a private sector corporate law firm in Sheffield.
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