Sian Lewis

Sian Lewis was IIED's staff writer until June 2016.

Full biography

Expertise

Communications, science writing and editing, remote sensing, environmental science.

Before IIED

Commissioning editor, SciDev.Net
Editorial project manager, Nature
PhD in remote sensing, University College London

Current work

Working with researchers and partners to publish articles that stimulate debate or provide policy recommendations about environment and development issues; delivering IIED’s Annual Report and strategy documentation.

Sian Lewis's blog posts

Financiers, decision makers, practitioners and researchers from across the globe gathered to share lessons and their experience in channelling finance to local levels (Image: Matt Wright/IIED)

Money where it matters: how to deliver finance to the local level

Blog, Dec 2016

Early morning in Dogo, West Java, Indonesia: getting low-cost furniture ready for selling on the street corner (Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Formalising the informal

Blog, Mar 2016

Women selling fish in Nyakrom, Central Ghana. The food economy is the largest informal sector in West Africa (Photo: aripeskoe2, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Green grows the informal economy

Blog, Mar 2016

A living room on the street, in Karachi, Pakistan (Photo: Fareena Chanda)

A picture of urban living

Blog, Oct 2015

Levocatus Saidi Bujiku has been working as an artisanal miner for about two years (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

Gold mining: the search for common ground

Blog, Jun 2015

Employees work deep within a tunnel at the Nsangano Gold Mine, Mawemeru village in Geita District, Tanzania (Photo: copyright Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

A shared long-term vision for ASM

Blog, Apr 2015

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