Claire Mcloughlin University of Birmingham, UK

Claire joined IDD in 2004 and has over a decade’s experience of conducting policy-oriented research in development. She is the Deputy Director (Research) of the Developmental Leadership Program (DLP) [dlprog.org] - an international collaboration researching the role of leadership in development. Claire has published widely on the politics of service delivery in divided societies and conflict-affected states. She has taken a lead role in major reviews of non-state service provision in developing countries and advised bilateral and multilateral aid agencies on the links between service delivery, state legitimacy and stability. She was a senior researcher with the knowledge on demand helpdesk - the GSDRC (now K4D) - between 2004-2017. Claire sits on the editorial board of the journal Governance and is a member of the strategic advisory committee for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.