Laurie Lee
Team: Chief Executive
Profile:
I joined CARE in August 2014, because I believe strongly in our focus on economic development, gender equality and people holding governments accountable. My focus at CARE is on ensuring we have the best people to do the job we do, to support our teams on the ground in over 70 developing countries, and to ensure we continuously improve our ability to monitor the impact of our work, and learn how to do it even better.
Prior to CARE I worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for seven years, advising them on development policy issues in Europe and Africa. Before that I worked for the British government. I managed British development programmes in South Africa and Afghanistan. He worked in 10 Downing Street to prepare the G8 Gleneagles Summit on Africa in 2005. And I ran the DFID Trade Policy Unit until 2008.
One good thing I've read
One of CARE’s goals is to help the 2 billion people – including 1.1 billion women – without access to financial services, to get them. This great and easy book, Portfolios of the poor: How the world's poor live on $2 a day, by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford and Orlanda Ruthven, explains why there’s no such thing as living 'hand to mouth'. The poorer you are, the more you need financial management tools.
Email: Lee@careinternational.org
Twitter: @lauriejlee
Blog posts
Make Poverty History +15: Reflections on progress
Wednesday, 08 July 2020 13:50Fifteen years ago today was the last day of the Gleneagles G8 Summit. I was there as the adviser for Africa and International Development for Number 10. This was the culmination of a campaign that saw 9 million brits demonstrate their support for
Cuts to UK aid: Where will the axe fall?
Friday, 26 June 2020 12:26Britain can be proud to be one of the countries that meets the UN target to give 0.7% of GNI (gross national income) to reduce poverty in poorer countries. That’s just 70p in every £100. This is the result of a 15-year
COVID-19 pandemic is not the only humanitarian emergency we should care about
Friday, 05 June 2020 16:48The COVID-19 pandemic poses a huge threat to billions of people around the world, but it can’t be the only priority for aid. Other humanitarian disasters and emergencies have not gone away. Countries that still don’t meet the UN target of
Webinar: Yemen in focus
Monday, 01 June 2020 14:10Responding to COVID-19 in the world's largest humanitarian crisis
CARE International UK CEO Laurie Lee hosts a discussion with Bushra Aldukhainah and Lina Al-Saffi – who are both working on the frontline of CARE’s response to
International Women's Day: Avon, Diageo, M&S and Unilever join CARE in calling for a strong and inclusive ILO Convention
Friday, 08 March 2019 12:10This International Women’s Day, CARE International and our corporate partners Avon, Diageo, M&S and Unilever are commited to calling for a strong and progressive ILO Convention to end violence and harassment in the world of work. This
Yemen: as the International Development Select Committee gathers, the voices of women and girls must not be dismissed
Tuesday, 30 October 2018 10:29
#MeToo one year on, and seven myths that stand in the way of ending abuse
Wednesday, 17 October 2018 12:29This week marks the one year anniversary of #MeToo, and the subsequent #AidToo movement. This transformed the global conversation, and put this critical issue high on the public agenda. I for one hope it stays there until we as a society and we
UK aid and the role of business – will it deliver economic empowerment for women?
Friday, 12 October 2018 14:50The UK government is increasingly highlighting the link between business and UK aid, and the need for aid spending to benefit the UK. For us at CARE the primary question has to be: does it economically empower poor
Global Disability Summit: How the aid sector should take seriously the needs of people living with disabilities across the world
Tuesday, 24 July 2018 09:24This week, the British and Kenyan Governments, together with the International Disability Alliance, co-host a Global Disability Summit. Over 700 delegates from governments, donors, private sector organisations, charities and organisations of
