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Lydia Poole

Associate Director – Evidence

Lydia leads the Centre’s work on evidence and learning. She is a specialist in crisis financing policy and has authored a range of influential policy studies for multilateral organisations, governments and NGOs.

Lydia co-authored the Centre report, The Future of Crisis Financing: A Call to Action, which sets out a new vision and agenda for reform of the international crisis financing system. She has also led or participated in several evaluations of financing instruments and donor policies.

Lydia also has a practical background in humanitarian response including having worked in a coordination role with UN OCHA in South Sudan and managing NGO emergency response programmes in South Sudan, Sudan, Sierra Leone and Myanmar.

She has a BA in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University and an MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Twitter: @poole_lydia

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