Vivien Foster serves as International Partnerships Lead for CCG. She leads a team responsible for managing CCG’s ecosystem of open-source data and modelling tools, as well as providing a rich programme of capacity building opportunities for academics and policymakers in the Global South, in close partnership with a wide array of international organizations.
Vivien is based at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, where she is a Principal Research Fellow, and contributes to postgraduate teaching and supervision. Previously, she spent more than 20 years at the World Bank, where she played a variety of research-oriented leadership roles – most recently as Chief Economist for the Infrastructure Vice-Presidency – and engaged with governments in some 40 countries ranging across Africa, Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.