Simon was previously head of policy and UK campaigns at Concern, leading a team of advocates and campaigners influencing the UK government and the public on international development issues including hunger, nutrition, resilience and humanitarian crises.
A development professional and social justice campaigner with more than 20 years working in the international development field, Simon has experience working in Africa, Asia and Europe with some of the UK’s largest international NGOs, including Oxfam, Save the Children and VSO. He has worked in senior roles on issues including climate change, conflict and peacebuilding, livelihoods and agriculture.
His expertise includes design, implementation and management of advocacy and public facing campaigns; developing, raising funds for and managing development and peacebuilding programmes; planning, monitoring and evaluation of campaigns and programmes. Simon has lived and worked in conflict, post-conflict and developing countries including Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia.
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Politics, policies and pounds: development in 2022
Our director of policy, advocacy and research Simon Starling takes a look at the politics, policies and the pounds sterling (or lack of them) that have dominated the year in development, before looking at what we might expect in 2023.
A daunting to-do list for new Foreign Secretary James Cleverly: here’s where to start
With the seventh secretary of state covering international development in four years being announced, and a turbulent time behind and ahead for the sector, here’s what Bond believes James Cleverly should prioritise in his new role.
What’s in store for 2022: politics, principles, policies and the pandemic
2021 was a titanic year for the development community in the UK, but what is 2022 likely to hold regarding how the UK government approaches Official Development Assistance (ODA), and how could and should the sector respond?