The team

The directorate and UK support team
The directorate provides overall leadership, coordination and strategic guidance, and report directly to DFID.

• Ian Maudlin - director
• Andy Frost - deputy director
• Lucy Nickoll - programme officer, monitoring and assessment
• Andy Ward - technical support, (until April 2011)

Central Research Team (CRT)
RIU's Central Research Team (CRT) has overall responsibility for designing and implementing the research. The LINK programme of the United Nations University Maastricht Economic and Social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) lead the CRT work.

• Andy Hall - head of CRT
• Jeroen Dijkman - CRT Africa, based in Italy (until 1 February 2011)
• Rasheed Sulaiman - CRT Asia, based in Hyderabad, India

Research Fellows
Research Fellows undertake documentation and analysis of the learning under the guidance of the CRT.

• Catherine W Kilelu - information intermediaries
• Ann Kingiri - gender and GMO policy
• Elias Madzudzo - innovation brokers
• Utiang P Ugbe - Nigeria and Sierra Leone
• Andrew Adwera - Best Bets
• TS Vamsidhar Reddy - Asia
• Hemant Ojha - adaptive collaborative approaches in agriculture and natural resources management.

Evaluation

• Details to follow

Africa and Asia hosts for learning programme

• The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) based in Nairobi, Kenya will host the learning programme for the African country programmes
• The Centre for Research on Innovation and Science Policy (CRISP) based in Hyderabad, India, for the South Asia projects.

Communications team
The communications team serves RIU's internal and external audiences, through the website, RIUtv and radio, media coverage, publications and events.

• Keith Sones - head of communications, based in Kenya
• Nik Wood - RIUtv correspondent
• Duncan Sones - events and web content
• Ryan Murphy - webmaster
• Joanna Buick - web strategy and content

RIU Programmes
The Africa Country Programmes are a series of experiments about putting research into use in different sectors and contexts.

RIU Malawi

• Nobel Moyo - country coordinator
• Jean Phiri
• Raphael Mweninguwe - communications officer

RIU Nigeria

• Utiang P Ugbe - country coordinator
• Grace Jokthan - programme officer
• Grace Ojonide Samuel - administration/finance officer
• Udensi E Udensi - senior adviser

RIU Rwanda

• Augustin Mutijima - country coordinator
• Clement Kirenga - programme monitoring and communications officer (Until July 2011)
• Judith Gumira - programme assistant

RIU Sierra Leone

• David Sam Suale - country coordinator
• Adolphus Johnson - PAID national coordinator
• Foday Solomon Kanu - monitoring, documentation and learning
• Holima Abraham Samai - programme assistant
• Matilda Amara - project officer, poultry feed production and marketing platform
• Moses Fofana - project officer, solar drying in fruit/horticulture value chain platform

RIU Tanzania

• Vera Mugittu - country coordinator
• Jwani Tranquilino Jube - programme officer, communications
• Dennis Mbangula - national process facilitator
• Robert Mgeni - senior programme officer

RIU Zambia

• Victor Makasa - country co-ordinator
• Daniel Mapoma - programme assistant – facilitation
• Frank M Kayula - national programme officer

Asia programme has three themes which explore putting research into use in different countries and contexts

RIU Best Bests is a flexible investment fund to explore the role of the private sector in getting research into use.

• Andy Ward - technical support, Best Bets, based in Tanzania

Commissioned work
RIU has developed flexible funding programmes so that it can invest in work which shows promise.

• Andy Frost - deputy director

Advisors and consultants
When required, carefully selected advisors and consultants have been and will continue to be recruited to complement and extend RIU's in-house expertise, skills, knowledge, contacts and experience.

• Norman Clark - senior advisor