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> Natural Resources research group

Thierry Berger

Associate, Natural Resources

Full biography

Thierry Berger is an associate with IIED's legal tools team 

Expertise

Thierry is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales and a French lawyer. He has re-focused his career to make a contribution to addressing global development and environmental issues.

Before IIED

Prior to his collaboration with IIED, Thierry worked for global law firms for 10 years, specialising in international arbitration. He re-focused his career to make a contribution to addressing global development and environmental issues. To that end, Thierry did an LLM in Global Environment and Climate Change Law at the University of Edinburgh.

Current work

Thierry has been collaborating closely as a consultant with the legal tools team since September 2013 – conducting research, co-authoring reports, running the legal tools webinar series and contributing to the team's international capacity support and lesson sharing work. For example he has participated in a water team-led demand assessment mission to Niger, and worked on a recent assignment on forest concessions in Guyana.

Thierry is playing a key research role in the scoping study, led by the Natural Resources research group, on mechanisms to secure rights in land use investments and in connection with a LEGEND Analytical paper on legal empowerment in agribusiness investment. Thierry is the engine of the legal tools webinar series, liaising with speakers and ensuring good delivery.

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Email: 
thierry.berger@iied.org
Twitter: @BergerThierry
Languages: English, French (native) and German (conversational)

Thierry Berger's blog posts

Two women sitting down and speaking to each other.

Sustaining coffee producers’ agency in the context of COVID-19

Blog, Aug 2020
A woman holding a mobile phone and smiling

Using technology to overcome challenges for farmers in value chains

Blog, May 2020
Green beans stacked into in a cardboard box

Rebalancing power in the Kenya-UK green bean value chain

Blog, Sep 2019
Bester Glandson was lent land and taught to grow soy and groundnuts with support from the National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi (NASFAM) (Photo: Olivier Girard/EIF, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Building transparency and trust into smallholder commodity trading and contract farming

Blog, Nov 2018
Saba bananas, a cooking banana from the Philippines. Grassroots organisation FARMCOOP works with Philippine farmers’ cooperatives to negotiate fair contracts and build capacity (Photo: Obsidian Soul, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)

Supporting small-scale farmers in negotiations with agribusiness

Blog, May 2018
Yanacocha Mine, in Cajamarca, Peru. The country's Supreme Court last year ruled in favour of a farmer that a US gold miner claimed was illegally occupying land it wanted to develop (Golda Fuentes, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Getting community voices heard in investor-state arbitration

Blog, Mar 2018
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