Professor Barry Dalal-Clayton is the Director of EDS-International which he established in 2014. He has 48 years post-graduate experience promoting sustainable development in developing and developed countries. From 1988 to 2014 he worked with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), based in London, where he held several posts, latterly Senior Fellow and Director for Strategies, Planning and Assessment.  Professor Dalal-Clayton has worked in 20 countries around the world including 10 years based in Zambia working on soil survey, rural development and agriculture for UK ODA (now DFID) and NORAD. His main areas of interest and expertise cover:

Impact assessment - environmental and social assessment (EIA and SEA/SESA)

Environmental and social safeguards

Sustainability appraisal

Environmental mainstreaming

Sustainable development strategies

Evaluation/review of policies, plans, programmes and projects

Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM)

Rural and land use planning, and land resources information 

Small island states

Renewable energy

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