Emily Polack

Senior researcher, Natural Resources

Full biography

Expertise

Land tenure and natural resource investment governance, community-based natural resource management and indigenous rights.

Before IIED

Researcher on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, child rights and child-centred adaptation, Climate Change and Development Centre at the Institute of Development Studies.

Consultant, climate change research and advocacy, Practical Action.

Education
LLM International Development Law and Human Rights, University of Warwick.

Current work

Researching large-scale land acquisitions and agricultural investments; practitioner lesson sharing on legal tools for citizen empowerment in relation to land and natural resource investments; innovative tools for securing land rights in West Africa.