Melissa Leach

Melissa Leach

Melissa Leach is Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex. She co-founded and co-directed the STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre from 2006 to 2014. A social anthropologist, she has served as vice-chair of the Science Committee of Future Earth from 2012 to 2017, lead author of the World Social Science Report 2016 on Challenging Inequalities, and a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food). She is now working on COVID-19 as co-lead of the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform and the Wellcome Trust-funded Pandemic Preparedness Project. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2017 was awarded a CBE for Services to Social Science. She holds a PhD in social anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

GTI Contributions
Pathways to Sustainability
GTI Forum
Pathways to Sustainability
Contribution to GTI Forum Technology and the Future
February 2022