Ian Townsend Email

Ian Townsend Work

• 2025 -now Co-chair, UN Expert Group on Wellbeing Measurement - Environment task-team @ United Nations
• 2023 -now Observer, London Councils "Building the Green Economy" Steering Group @ Office for National Statistics
• 2023 -now Advisory Committee Member, NPL and Bristol University GEMMA programme @ Office for National Statistics
• 2022 -now Chair, GSS Environment, Climate Change and Nature theme @ Office for National Statistics
• 2021 -now Deputy Director - Environmental Economy lead @ Office for National Statistics
• 2020 -2021 Deputy Director - Sustainability and Inequalities @ Office for National Statistics
• 2025 -now Member @ UN Network of Economic Statisticians - Net Zero Sprint
• 2021 -now Committee Member @ Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change
• 2019 -2021 Independent sustainable cities and international development consultant @ Ian Townsend Consulting
• 2016 -2019 Chief Executive Officer @ Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership
• 2015 -2016 Independent international development and SDGs Consultant @ Ian Townsend Consulting
• 2014 -2016 Committee Member @ South West International Development Network
• 2012 -2015 Lead Analyst @ Development Initiatives
• 2010 -2012 Head of Americas and South Asia, Economic Risk and Security - Economics Unit @ Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• now Senior Economist and Analyst - International Economics and Development @ House of Commons
• now Economic Advisor, Trade and Industry and BIS select committee @ House of Commons
• 2002 -2007 Senior Economist and Analyst - International trade, incomes and poverty @ House of Commons
• 2000 -2002 Research Officer - Data Management and Mapping @ Cambridgeshire County Council