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
Training midwives doesn’t just protect mothers – it gives women a livelihood too
Friday, 30 October 2015 10:54
Technology as a poverty game changer: Using citizen-generated data to measure the SDGs
Tuesday, 22 September 2015 15:37The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the first time a global compact on overcoming poverty has been created in the digital age. Harnessing the promise of technology will be key to transforming poverty and power in the next 15 years, but
How business can economically empower women through the SDGs
Tuesday, 02 June 2015 09:09The real challenge for the new Sustainable Development Goals is what happens after they are agreed. Deciding on the goals and targets is only the first step; backing them up with the commitment to implement them is crucial. The emerging consensus
Banking the missing billions is within reach
Tuesday, 19 May 2015 09:54A ground-breaking piece of development progress was marked last month when the World Bank updated its financial inclusion database and revealed that in the last three
How citizen monitoring could make the SDGs really deliver for poor people
Monday, 09 February 2015 16:39“What gets measured gets noticed,” said Hilary Clinton. True enough, which is why officials are meeting at the
MDGs, progress, challenges and the year ahead: Why 2015 will be a big year for overcoming poverty
Monday, 05 January 2015 13:582015 is set to be a big year for CARE and other organisations working to end world poverty. So where are we at, where are we going, and what do we need to do to get
Ten years on from the Indian Ocean tsunami: The challenges and priorities for humanitarian action
Monday, 22 December 2014 11:17Ten years ago on Boxing Day, the Indian Ocean tsunamis crashed into the shorelines of 14 countries, killing more than 228,000 people and making almost two million more people homeless and bereaved. The scale of the disaster and the speed with
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