Leo Roberts

Partnerships and Learning Support - Climate and Development Knowledge Network

Leo joined the LEAD team in August 2011 and has been working primarily on the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN). He has worked on a number of activities, including 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.

Leo Roberts graduated from the University of Sheffield with a BA in Human Geography, followed by an MA in International Development. Through his MA, Leo began to specialise in the impacts of climate change on development, and responses to these impacts. He has spent time conducting extensive field research in Kenya into rural livelihood diversification and the localised impacts of climate change, and in Guatemala researching the impacts of the Fairtrade movement on rural coffee farmers, the latter forming the basis of his Masters dissertation. Leo has also spent time working on monitoring the 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.