Ian Mitchell is an economist and Senior Policy Fellow at the Center for Global Development where he leads work assessing the effectiveness of major economies’ development and climate finance policies. He is also an associate fellow with Chatham House’s Environment and Society programme. Until 2016 he was a senior civil servant and economist in the UK Government, most recently as deputy Chief Economist at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs where he led Strategy and International Analysis including EU, agricultural and international environmental issues. Between 2014 and 2015, he chaired the G20 Agricultural Markets Information System established to tackle global food price volatility.
